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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 a control add-in


The first recipe covers the basics of developing a control add-in. We will walk through developing a web browser control that can be embedded in a NAV page, allowing a user to open web pages directly in NAV applications without switching to external software.

How to do it...

The current recipe covers the .NET library project in Visual Studio, while subsequent recipes Signing the control add-in assembly and Registering and embedding a control add-in will continue the discussion and demonstrate how to assign a strong name to the assembly and embed the control to the NAV user interface.

  1. Run Visual Studio and start a new project. In the New Project dialog, select the Class Library template located under the Windows templates collection.

  2. Type a name for the new project. Name it NavBrowserControl. Select a location for the project and choose to create a new solution:

  3. Click OK. A project containing one class named Class1 is created. In the Solution Explorer window, right...