One question that is raised a lot lately is how events and hooks are compared and when to use events and when to use hooks. The answer to this question is very simple if you are not on NAV2016, as … Continue reading →

This blog contains 10 years of information about Dynamics NAV . The articles are all categorised, which makes it easier for you to find the information you need. NAV Skills focusses 100% on Microsoft Dynamics NAV product quality from a … Continue reading →

If there was a Pattern of the year award, last year the Arguments table would have won. The year before the Hook pattern. Or maybe that was the year before. This year in my opinion it is the Handled pattern … Continue reading →

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV we don’t have Abstract Classes or Inheritance. These are modern technologies that make sure that objects in your application have similar elements and signatures. Despite the lack of these modern concepts NAV does have many tables … Continue reading →

Back home from NAVTechDays. It’s a rainy saturday, nothing much to do in the garden. Kids are playing or doing their saturday activities with sports and scouting. I figured it was time for me to catch up with bookkeeping and … Continue reading →

There have been some blogs already about the new code editor that we have in NAV2016. In these blogs I miss two “features” that are not highligted. The first one is really about highlighting: If you cursor over a BEGIN … Continue reading →

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 CU1, support for VS2015 Community Edition has been implemented. However if you do a default install of VS2016CE, the RDLC editor is not included and your report will show up as XML instead of the … Continue reading →

Everyone in NAV channel will have probably noticed, we cannot handle the amount of work anymore our customers want us to do. We need to grow our workforce. Microsoft is not helping us with that, there is no classroom materials … Continue reading →

If you upgrade your database to NAV2016 using the PowerShell Merge commandlets and have a change to table 49 you will run into this issue. Table 49 is the Invoice Posting Buffer table that NAV uses to create G/L entries … Continue reading →

With the release of NAV2016 we get new possibilities for making changes to the product without raw source code modification. This is called “events” and the concept is “stolen” from DotNET. How does it work? Traditionally if we want to … Continue reading →