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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By: Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the real world often requires you to integrate the ERP with external applications or solve complex architectural tasks in order to have a final successful project. This book will show you how to extend a Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation to the enterprise world in a practical way. The book starts with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV architecture and then moves on to advanced topics related to implementing real-world solutions based on NAV and external applications. You will learn how an enterprise distributed architecture with NAV at the core can be implemented. Through a series of real-world cases on every topic and every industry (sales, retail, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and so on), you’ll see step by step how to efficiently solve a technical problem. These common problems encountered in a NAV implementation will be solved using the entire technology stack that Microsoft offers. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge to efficiently solve certain scenarios, you will know which is the best solution architecture to propose to a customer and how to implement it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


This chapter shows how to expose a NAV object as a web service (in this case the Sales Order page) and how to create an application with Visual Studio and .NET in order to use this published web service.

You learned how to create a console application with Visual Studio, how to reference a published NAV web service in Visual Studio, and then how to use the web service methods and objects to perform operations such as retrieving and deleting data from NAV and creating new records on NAV (sales orders) with indirect calls to all the NAV business logic.

The chapter also shows you how to use an OData web service (endpoint) for reading NAV data and how to create a cross-platform application by using the new .NET core framework.

Now you have all you need to know in order to use NAV web services from custom applications. In the next chapters, we'll see how to use all these concepts in real-world applications.