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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

Working with .NET strings and arrays in C/AL


The .NET datatype in C/AL enables developers to use .NET strings and dynamics arrays in client application code. While the Syste.String datatype is compatible with NAV Text type, .NET arrays cannot be directly converted to NAV arrays.

In the following example, we will see how to efficiently use these datatypes in your code.

How to do it...

Objects developed in the walk-through get stock exchange data from the Yahoo Finance website and present the result in a table. Stock indicators are published in CSV format - a list of comma-separated strings, each containing a dataset related to a separate index.

  1. First of all, let's create a table where the data received from the stock information provider will be stored. Open Table Designer in C/SIDE and create a table.

  2. Create the table fields as shown in the following table:

    Field No.

    Field Name

    Data Type

    Length

    1

    Symbol

    Code

    10

    2

    Trade Date

    Date

    3

    Name

    Text

    100

    4

    Change

    Text

    30

    5

    ...