David's Personal Acknowledgements

The work on this book would not have been possible without my co-author (and son) Christopher Studebaker. Chris' broad experience with and in depth technical knowledge of NAV made it possible for us to deliver this book. I'm a very lucky father to get to work with such a smart, knowledgeable son.

I would like to especially thank my partner in life and work, Karen Studebaker, for her unflagging support, patience, love and encouragement in all ways. No one could have a more wonderful partner or spouse. The first 50 years have been great; I'm looking forward to the next 50.

I would like to acknowledge the guidance and love that I received from my parents. They always were able to see the good in people. They expected their children to do their best and helped us to do so. Foremost, they expected us to treat others well and they led by their examples.

One of my life's treasures is the enthusiastic support and love of my wonderful children, Christopher and Rebecca, of whom I am very proud. Both Becky and Chris are high achievement professionals and managers who are thoughtful and caring of others in all aspects of their lives. Most importantly, they place the highest value on their roles as parents and spouses.

Much of my knowledge about NAV was developed while working with a terrific team of associates at Studebaker Technology and later at Liberty Grove Software. For many years I have had the good fortune to work with intelligent, dedicated people who are also my friends.

Finally, though there are far too many additional 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.

May you enjoy using this book as even a fraction as much as I enjoyed working on it with Chris.

Christopher's Personal Acknowledgements

First and foremost I would like to thank my parents, David and Karen Studebaker, for giving me the opportunity in starting in the NAV world, and allowing me the room to grow on my own. Of course I could not have participated in this book if it weren't for my wife, Beth. Having worked within the NAV community for the past decade, I have worked with many wonderful people, most notably my parents (of course), Betty Cronin, Kathy Nohr, Tommy Madsen, Susanne Priess, David Podjasek, Diane Beck, Hasse Nielsen, Ahmed Amini, Chris Pashby, and Joy Bensur. Without them, I would not be the NAV professional I am today.

Authors' Joint Acknowledgements

We wish to express our deep appreciation to the Dynamics NAV experts, the technical reviewers for this book. Scott Barber, Steven Renders, Daniel Rimmelzwaan, Kamil Sacek and Luc Van Dyck all generously contributed their time and immeasurable amounts of their expertise to the task of reviewing our work. Their combined store of knowledge about Dynamics NAV is amazing. The good qualities in this book are due in no small part to the contributions of these individuals. We appreciate their hard work and wish to thank each of them very much.

We want to offer special thanks to Michael Nielsen of Microsoft for his wholehearted support of this and the previous Programming NAV books.

We wish to thank the great people at Microsoft and the crew of editors and other professionals at Packt Publishing who patiently assisted us with their contributions throughout the creation of this book.