I would like to especially thank my partner in life and at work, Karen Studebaker, for her unflagging support and encouragement in all ways since those early days at Purdue. No one could have a more wonderful partner or spouse. I would like to acknowledge the guidance and love that I received from my parents as well as the enthusiastic support and love of my wonderful children and other family members. Finally, though there are far too many individuals to list, whatever I have been able to accomplish would not have been possible without the help of many, many friends, mentors, and associates along the way. Life would be very poor without all the kind and generous folks I have met. I also wish to thank the great people at Microsoft and Packt who assisted me with their contributions and advice throughout the creation of this book. May you enjoy this book and find it useful.
A special thanks to these helpful people at Microsoft:
Microsoft Technical Reviewers:
Overall Coordination—Michael Nielsen, Director of Engineering, Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Chapter 1: A Short Tour through NAV 2009 - Esben Nyhuus Kristoffersen
Chapter 2: Tables - Thomas Hejlsberg
Chapter 3: Data Types and Fields for Data Storage and Processing - Thomas Hejlsberg
Chapter 4: Pages—Tools for Data Display - Esben Nyhuus Kristoffersen
Chapter 5: Reports - Yuri Belenky
Chapter 6: Introduction to C/SIDE and C/AL - Lars Hammer
Chapter 7: Intermediate C/AL - Lars Hammer
Chapter 8: Advanced NAV Development Tools - Lars Hammer, Hans Kierulff
Chapter 9: Extend, Integrate, and Design—into the Future - Christian Abeln, Bardur Knudsen
Dynamics NAV Help documentation: Paul Chapman, Dynamics NAV 2009 Documentation Manager, and his team, including Jill Frank, Søren Groes-Petersen, John Swymer, and Bob Papsdorf
Dynamics NAV UX Guide: Hans Roed Mark, UX Manager, Microsoft Dynamics User Experience Team