Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Customize your NAV applications

Key Features

• Gain from the insights and methods of industry-leading experts and tailor your applications to best suit the needs of your business
• Learn through the detailed explanations and useful examples that are presented in a logical, step-by-step manner
• This comprehensive guide is written with the goals of being used as a classroom text, a self-study text, and as a handy in-depth reference guide

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Productively and effectively use the development tools that are built into Dynamics NAV
• Understand the strengths of NAV's development tools and how they can be applied to address functional business requirements
• Learn how to do programming using the C/AL language in the C/SIDE Development Environment
• Explore functional design and development using C/AL
• Leverage advanced Dynamics NAV development features and tools
• Get to know the best practices to design and develop modifications of new functionality integrated with the standard Dynamics NAV software

Who this book is for

This book will appeal to all those who want to learn about NAV's powerful and extensive built-in development capabilities. It assumes that you understand programming and are familiar with business application software, although you aren’t expected to have worked with NAV before. ERP consultants and managers of NAV development will also find the book helpful.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to NAV 2017
2. Tables
3. Data Types and Fields
4. Pages – the Interactive Interface
5. Queries and Reports
6. Introduction to C/SIDE and C/AL
7. Intermediate C/AL
8. Advanced NAV Development Tools
9. Successful Conclusions

Author, programmer, consultant, project manager, presenter, evangelist, sales person, and a trainer. It’s next to impossible to find someone as experienced as Marije Brummel in the Business Central community.

Marije received the Microsoft MVP and the NAVUG All-Star awards among several others. She has chaired the Dynamics Credentialing committee and has authored official Microsoft Exam materials.

She’s the go-to girl for performance troubleshooting and upgrade challenges. One of her biggest achievements was introducing Design Patterns into the Business Central community. Her books, blog articles, and YouTube videos have influenced almost everyone involved with Business Central.

She enjoys the outdoors with her dog and loves spending time with her family.

David Studebaker has been designing and developing software since 1962 as a developer, consultant, manager, and business owner. In 1967, David coauthored the first general-purpose SPOOL system, an AT&T / IBM joint project. He has been a founding partner in several firms, most recently Studebaker Technology and Liberty Grove Software. David's publications include a decade of technical reviews for ACM Computing Reviews and a number of articles on shop floor data collection. David originated the Packt series of books on programming Dynamics Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV). He has a BS in mechanical engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a life member of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Chris Studebaker was a certified environmental consultant working with manufacturing facilities to meet national and state regulations before he started working with Navision in 1999. After working on regulatory reporting, data analysis, project management, and subcontractor oversight, Chris has used those skills to sell, develop, and implement NAV for the past 20 years. He has specialized in retail, manufacturing, job shop, and distribution implementations, mostly in high-user-count, high-data-volume applications. Chris acts in a consulting and training role for customers and for peer NAV professionals. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Illinois University and has done graduate work at Denmark Technical University.