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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

By : Alexander Drogin
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

By: Alexander Drogin

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite for organizations. The system offers specialized functionality for manufacturing, distribution, government, retail, and other industries. This book gets you started with its integrated development environment for solving problems by customizing business processes. This book introduces the NAV development environment – C/SIDE. It gives an overview of the internal system language and the most essential development tools. The book will enable the reader to customize and extend NAV functionality with C/AL code, design a user interface through pages, create role centers, and build advanced reports in Microsoft Visual Studio. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to extend the NAV data model, how to write and debug custom code, and how to exchange data with external applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Configuring default pages for tables

Although the user interface is a topic for the next chapter, where it will be covered in detail, now we need to touch on some basic techniques of UI design. C/SIDE allows us to run tables directly from the table designer, the same way we did with Codeunits. But it's always a good practice to create at least one page for any new table that is supposed to present data to the user. Some types of tables may have more than one page associated with them, but right now, we will create one list page to represent contracts.

Creating a list page using a page wizard

Now we will complete a simple walk-through to create a list page for the table. The following steps provide the details of creating...