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Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition

By : Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker
Book Image

Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition

By: Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a full business solution suite, and a complete ERP solution that contains a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These tools provide greater control over financials and can simplify supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV and its integrated development tools to being a productive developer in the Dynamics NAV Development Environment. You will find this book very useful if you want to evaluate the product's development capabilities or need to manage Dynamics NAV based projects. It will teach you about the NAV application structure, the C/SIDE development environment, the C/AL language paired with the improved editor, the construction and uses of each object type, and how it all fits together to build universal applications. With this new edition, you will be able to understand how to design and develop using Patterns and new features such as Extensions and Events.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

NAV Application Server

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Application Server (NAS) is a middle-tier server component that executes business logic without a user interface or user interaction. In NAV 2017, NAS is one of the client services that runs in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server.

The NAS is essentially an automated user client. Because NAS is effectively a non-UI version of the standard NAV client module, it can access all of NAV's business rules.

Error messages that are generated by an NAS process are logged in the Event Viewer.

NAS operates essentially the same as any other NAV Windows client. If the NAS setup to run the Task Scheduler (formerly called Job Queue), it processes requests in the queue one at a time, in the same manner as the GUI client. Therefore, as developers, we need to limit the number of concurrent calls to an NAS instance as the queue should remain short to allow timely communications between...