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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By : Alex Chow
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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

So, your company has made the wise decision to use Dynamics NAV as its main business software for all its enterprise resource planning. Dive in and learn the ins and outs of the software from a development standpoint and unlock the software's full potential.The book will walk you through creating an application from start to finish. Once you know how to create a working application that users can access, you will have the knowledge and the resources needed to create other applications based on the tutorials covered in this guide.You will start by obtaining a free trial version of Dynamics NAV and then be introduced to the world of analyzing and deriving user problems into a requirements list. Finally, you will be shown how to use the software to knock out these requirements. You will learn everything you need in order to begin creating your own applications, from translating the user's requirements to creating and modifying your system applications. Use Dynamics NAV's capability to create an application and address the user's needs, while also learning best practices and simple solutions. "Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development" will help you on your way to becoming a great developer!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Unofficial online resource


In addition to the official Microsoft sites for the product, there are also sites created by independent professionals and Microsoft development staff.

Online forums

Before Microsoft came out with the official community site, there were already dedicated fans of NAV that created their own forum. At the time of writing, the most popular non-official Dynamics NAV forums are:

  • www.mibuso.com: This is one of my favorite Dynamics NAV forums. The primary reason I like this forum is because I like phpBB style forums.

  • dynamicsuser.net: This is another forum that services the Dynamics NAV community. This forum has also expanded to service other Dynamics NAV products.

Both of these forums have dedicated experts to help out with user questions. A lot of the users frequent both sites, so you can get your questions answered on both sites.

Blogs

There are a lot of blogs out there, but most are not that useful to further our education in Dynamics NAV. Some blogs that are the my personal favorites are:

  • blogs.msdn.com/b/nav: This blog is maintained by the Microsoft development team for Dynamics NAV. You will be able to find detailed information for every undocumented feature in the core product (real features, not bugs) here. If you're serious about Dynamics NAV, this site should be bookmarked or subscribed to your favorite RSS reader. The information posted here, even though it's from Microsoft employees, is not officially supported by Microsoft, the company.

  • www.waldo.be: This blog is written by Eric Wauters, a Dynamics NAV MVP. His blog has been one of the community favorites for his updates on the latest and greatest from Dynamics NAV.

  • navigateintosuccess.com: This blog is maintained and written by a former Microsoft employee, Vjekoslav Babić. He has been a valuable contributor writing about new technologies that deal with NAV.

  • www.dynamicsnavconsultant.com: And last but not least, this blog is written and maintained by Alex Chow, the author of this book. This blog documents Alex's journey in Dynamics NAV, talking about more functional and business-related topics pertaining to Dynamics NAV instead of technical topics.