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Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Hone your skills and increase your productivity when programming in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017

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|Sep 2025
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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
  5. Queries and Reports
  6. Introduction to C/SIDE and C/AL
  7. Intermediate C/AL
  8. Advanced NAV Development Tools
  9. Successful Conclusions
https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Programming-Microsoft-Dynamics-NAV-Fifth-Edition
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78646-192-6
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 706