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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
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About the Author
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Preface

Querying NAV OData web services with LINQ


Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is an extremely convenient interface for writing SQL queries in .NET languages. SQL-like queries are integrated in the .NET syntax, so that the developer can write application code and database queries in a unified way instead of injecting database interaction statements in text constants.

The System.Linq library allows access to different data sources, including OData service interfaces.

How to do it...

Now we will walk through receiving data from a NAV page with a LINQ query.

  1. Publish page 42 Sales Order as a web service. Refer to the Exposing and consuming OData web services recipe for a step-by-step description of OData service publishing. Assign the name SalesOrder to the new service.

  2. In Visual Studio, start a Console Application project: NAVSalesOrdersWebService.

  3. Open the Add Service Reference dialog. Run service discovery on http:// localhost:7048/DynamicsNAV90 /OData/

  4. Select the service NAV in the list of discovered...