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Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns

By : Mark Brummel, Marije Brummel
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Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns

By: Mark Brummel, Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a complete ERP system, which also contains a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These include an object designer for each of the seven application object types, a business application-oriented programming language with .NET interface capability, a compiler, a debugger, and programming testing language support. Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns will guide you through the NAV way of solving problems. This book will first introduce you to patterns and the software architecture of the NAV and then help you to build an example application. Then, it walks you through the details of architectural patterns, design patterns, and implementation patterns. This book will also talk about anti-patterns and handling legacy code. Finally, it teaches you to build solutions using patterns. Proven patterns and best practices will help you create better solutions that are easy to maintain in larger teams across several locations. It will guide you through combining abstract patterns using easy-to-understand examples and will help you decide which patterns to use in which scenarios.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Anti-patterns

In a world that defines good design and best practices, it might be useful to also define bad design, and discuss why we consider it bad, and in which context. Where Design Patterns are best practices, Anti-patterns are considered to be proven as counter-productive practices.

There is a lot of information to be found on the internet on Anti-patterns, and it is a perfect material to be discussed over a beer during a barbeque. In this book, we will not try to come up with a complete list of anti-patterns for Dynamics NAV, but we will discuss some of them and see how they can be avoided.

Code cloning

One of the most well-known anti-patterns is code cloning. Code cloning means copying code or a part of the code in order to reuse it. When learning object-oriented programming (OOP), it is good to try to avoid this at almost any cost, whereas in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we have sales people telling customers how easy it is to copy something in NAV and customize it. Dynamics...