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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
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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
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Preface

Developing client-side extensions


Client-side .NET components are executed on the client computer. Usually, these are components for user interaction, user interface, or parts of the application interacting with the software installed on the client computer.

How to do it...

In the following example, we will develop a document storage where the user can upload Word documents and open files to edit from the storage. MS Word is installed on the client computer and is controlled by a client-side .NET components.

  1. A new table serving document storage is required for this example. Create a table in the C/SIDE table designer. Insert three fields in the new table:

    Field No.

    Field Name

    Data Type

    Length

    1

    ID

    Integer

    2

    File Name

    Text

    250

    3

    Document

    BLOB

  2. Save the object as table 50202 File Storage. The first field in the list automatically becomes the primary key, this is exactly what we want for the walk-through, so leave the default primary key.

  3. Massive inserts into the file storage...