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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
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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 7. Programming Universal Windows Apps with NAV and Devices

We live in a world where mobility is an emerging requirement for every type of business. In recent years, Microsoft has been continuously investing in creating a unified experience between devices. The goal is to have a platform which allows you to develop an application and run it on every device you have (PC, tablet, smartphone, and so on) by using the different devices's capabilities. Microsoft has reached this goal with Windows 10 and the Unified Windows Platform.

In this chapter, we'll see how we can use the Universal Windows Platform to satisfy real-world business cases where NAV must be integrated with different Windows-based mobile devices. Here you will learn about the following topics:

  • An overview of Universal Windows Platform 

  • Implementing a RESTful interface layer between NAV and a UWP application

  • Creating a UWP application for transmitting device locations to NAV

  • An interaction with devices from a UWP application