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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

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. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You’ll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you’ll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction


With PowerShell, Windows system administrators received a comprehensive scripting environment with a broad set of tools for administering any application in the corporate domain and integrating all software into a common infrastructure.

The latest release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV also supports PowerShell and comes with numerous cmdlets to aid both developers and system administrators in their daily tasks. All NAV cmdlets are collected in two modules, one of them incorporating development tools, and the second containing the administration cmdlets.

The Administration module is loaded into the PowerShell environment when you run the NAV 2016 Administration Shell from the Start menu. NAV 2016 Development Shell loads the development module.

After starting one of the shells, you can get the list of commands available in the corresponding module by running the command Get-Command *NAV*

Help topics on each command can be retrieved with a standard PowerShell cmdlet Get-Help <command...