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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By : Marije Brummel
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

Dynamics NAV 2009 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft that can be used for variety of business needs. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development, so you can develop complete applications and not just application outlines. It will show NAV developers how to create different kinds of applications. Different kinds of application are vital in different industries like fashion, automobile, retail, books (education), and other industries. It starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn how it is set up and customized for various industries. You will be able to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as Financial Management, Relationship Management, Production, Jobs, Trade, Storage, Logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Thus, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
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Licensing

Microsoft has very strict licensing regulations for using and developing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

For educational purposes, you may use the MSDN license to develop new objects with numbers 123.456.700 to 123.456.799.

Installing Microsoft Dynamics NAV

After downloading the product CD from the MSDN website run the setup.exe file.

From the installation options select Install Demo (as shown in the previous screenshot).

Changing the license

After the installation completes we can use both the Classic Client and the Role Tailored Client. We use the Classic Client for administration purposes and development. The user interface is done using the Role Tailored Client.

The example objects can be used in the Role Tailored Client only. This means there are no Form objects, only Pages.

Each server instance of Microsoft Dynamics NAV runs on a license file. This file determines what access we have...