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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
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Preface

Invoking .NET methods via reflection


Reflection is the ability of a program to control its own structure and change the flow dynamically at runtime. .NET Framework provides reflection capabilities through the System.Reflection assembly. The key class implemented in this assembly is Type, which gives access to the instantiation of datatypes and allows inspecting type methods and properties.

How to do it...

The following example executes one of two functions on a List object, when the function name becomes known only in runtime.

  1. Create a Page object in the C/SIDE page designer. This will be a container for actions executing reflected functions.

  2. The code of the function is as follows:

            Item.FINDSET; 
            REPEAT 
              ItemList.Add(Item.Description); 
            UNTIL Item.NEXT = 0; 
    
  3. Create a function in C/AL Globals and name it RunFunction. It should have one text parameter, FunctionName.

  4. Declare local variables. All classes in the list are compiled in the mscorlib assembly:

    Name

    ...