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Functional Testing in NAV 2009 SP1

Kine — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:25:20 GMT

Because SP1 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 was released, I tried to create short demo of the new functionality, which allows developers to create tests for their code. Official documentation for this part of NAV 2009 SP1 could be found here . How it works You have new property on codeunit – Subtype...(read more)

NAV 2009 NST Management app goes Public

Kine — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:36:57 GMT

I made decision and the source code for my application is now public. You can freely extend/update the code through GIT tools. The project is available on this address: git://github.com/kine/NAV_NST_Management.git I hope that this application will grow into superb tool for administering the NST services...(read more)

Future of NAV Development environment

Kine — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:41:44 GMT

During the MiBuSo conference 2009 in Mechelen we had one presentation, where all attendees could see the future of NAV development environment, which will replace the C/Side from classic client. For others, which are not there, I have some pictures I made with my mobile (sorry for the poor quality)....(read more)

NAV 2009 Management application

Kine — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:25:00 GMT

Hello all, today I am glad that I can introduce you my new application, which is focused on management of NAV 2009 service tier and WebService. In last few days I learned much about C# and managing services, reading and modifying XML files etc. Result is the application named "NAV 2009 NST Management"...(read more)

The Art of NAV –Dynamics NAV 2009 network Stats

Kine — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:19:29 GMT

Today I prepared some stats about network traffic in NAV 2009 RTC client. You can compare the results with C/Side client (classic client). Measuring: for measuring I have used the Microsoft Network Monitor for catching the NAV communication between client and DB Server/Service tier. Than I create...(read more)

What is new in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

Kine — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:02:00 GMT

Hello all I am happy that after long time of silence I can post this article about NAV 2009. I want to show you what is new in this version from Developer's point of view. Let's make it short: Technology Of course, everybody knows that NAV 2009 is 3-tier system, where you have DB Server (MS SQL...(read more)

Microsot Dynamics NAV 2009 - C/AL colored!

Kine — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:53:00 GMT

Yes, it is true, NAV have syntax highlighting now! What a miracle! My live is much more bright now! What to say? No comment... :-) What is your comment on this? Be redy for more NAV 2009 articles, because now, NDA over NAV 2009 is gone......(read more)

The Art Of Nav – NAV 2009 CTP4 stats

Kine — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:06:00 GMT

Today I made some statistics about NAV 2009 CTP4 tables and compared the result with the stats for NAV 5.00SP1. There are the tables: Tab 1) Field relations by type: Relation Type Count (5.00SP1) Count (NAV 2009) Difference AVERAGE 5 5 0% COUNT 109 193 +77% EXIST 135 135 0% LOOKUP 291 294 +1% MAX 9 9...(read more)

The Art Of Nav – NAV 5.00SP1 Stats

Kine — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:09:12 GMT

Today I made some statistics about NAV 5.00SP1 tables. I know that the stats have no purpose, but you can see on them how complex the system is. It can help to someone, who just want to know, how much is something used in standard etc. There are the tables: Tab 1) Field relations by type: Relation Type...(read more)

The Art Of Nav – Big Picture of NAV

Kine — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:19:00 GMT

Today I have for you something, what everyone wants to have, but it was nearly impossible to create. After you see it, you will know why. I prepared it for you in more formats. You can look at it as PNG file, you can walk through it with some VRML viewer, you can open it as Visio file. You can read it...(read more)

Where to place my code?

Kine — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:06:00 GMT

That's the question… Many rookies have problems with decision where to put the code (or from where to call it). When you watch some beginner in NAV where the code is placed and from where it is called, you can find out that in many cases used triggers are the triggers, which in 99% are not used in...(read more)

Pay attention to permissions when upgrading DB from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005

Kine — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:06:00 GMT

Story Today I solved one "mystery" which leads to data loss. But from the beginning... We have upgraded HW and MS SQL to version 2005 on 64bit platform. Everything without problems, because SAN was used, transferring the DB was just Detach/Attach and running one SSIS task to transfer user logins...(read more)

Country code in ENU fin.stx file is no longer W1

Kine — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:19:00 GMT

You know the situation: customer has W1 license (or another country license) but is using client for his "home" country. E.g. license is W1, but because Company is in Czech, they are using Czech client. Not problem until NAV 4.00SP3 Update 6. When you got error that "The country code in the license file does not correspond to the country code (XX) in the stx file", you just took the fin.stx from ENU folder and copied it into Client folder. You were done. But not now. ...(read more)

Official Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blog

Kine — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:46:00 GMT

Today was opened new official blog of Microsoft Dynamics NAV team. You can visit it there: http://blogs.msdn.com/nav/ . I hope, that we will see there some about future releases and other things around NAV team. We will see in next months, what the blog team prepared for us. But for now - "welcome...(read more)

Powerfull command in Microsoft Dynamics NAV: BEEP

Kine — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:08:00 GMT

Last few weeks I have worked on some project, which needed to use SendKeys to do something with NAV client. During developing this module I hade problem, how to synchronize of calling SendKeys with behaviour of the NAV client. You know, you send keys to the NAV, client is opening some window (form),...(read more)