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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
Book Image

Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By: Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the real world often requires you to integrate the ERP with external applications or solve complex architectural tasks in order to have a final successful project. This book will show you how to extend a Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation to the enterprise world in a practical way. The book starts with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV architecture and then moves on to advanced topics related to implementing real-world solutions based on NAV and external applications. You will learn how an enterprise distributed architecture with NAV at the core can be implemented. Through a series of real-world cases on every topic and every industry (sales, retail, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and so on), you’ll see step by step how to efficiently solve a technical problem. These common problems encountered in a NAV implementation will be solved using the entire technology stack that Microsoft offers. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge to efficiently solve certain scenarios, you will know which is the best solution architecture to propose to a customer and how to implement it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Chapter 6. Extending NAV Pages with Control Add-ins

During the implementation of a Microsoft Dynamics NAV-based solution, often there are requirements to extend the user interface by adding graphical controls that are not natively built-in on the platform.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers the ability to create client control add-ins that permit you to add custom functionalities to a NAV page.

In this chapter, we'll see how to solve the requirements of a real-world scenario by using control add-ins. Here you will learn about the following topics:

  • Creating a NAV control add-in with Visual Studio

  • Publishing a control add-in on NAV