Last session of the convention for me ... one about the deployment of the 3-tiers of NAV 2009. Now, besides all jokes ... I always wondered, how on earth do you pronounce "tier". I always say it like you would say "teer" in English, but I'm sure as hell not sure it should be done this way ... But anyway ... Let's learn something. 2-tier vs 3-tier. (Damn, there are lots of drawings on his slides, so this is going to be difficult to explain) Claus Busk Andersen explained the difference, which is quite clear, isn't it? The difference is the extra service (service layer) that is handling the…

Jan Silleman started off with a joke ... I'm don't know what I'm doing up here ... is he right? Off course not ;°) In this session, people can ask question so big chiefs at Microsoft ... so there is no agenda .. It all depends on the attendees. First question was about a guy that developed quite a complex Warehouse form with colors and stuff. How to do this roletailored. The answer was simple: whatever is not possible in the UI of the RTC .. Just do it with Client Extensibility. It's simple, easy and fast... . And they're right! Next question was about if the Business logic is ever going to…

Sorry for not getting back to you with my Convergence Diary, but there was just not much to say about Day 2. At least not to you. I have been on Expo Duty (on Microsoft pavilion) for three hours, and the rest of the time, I was in meetings or "interactive discussion"-session, which are impossible to blog about. Interactive Discussion: Web Services One of the sessions was an interactive discussion about NAV 2009 Web Services. I was actually quite surprised that this session was far from full. Only about 15 attendees. No problem there, because one might expect that things might get more interactive…

Next session for me was one of Freddy Kristiansen. I mentioned Freddy quite a lot in the past, being the Mekka of NAV 2009 Web Services and such... but you know Freddy of his blog. Freddy is a PM Architect who (in my understanding) can work on stuff they like. And if you read Freddy's blog, you'll notice that's exactly what he does. You can use Web Service applications for any type of appcliations, for example Desktop applications. There are many examples: Edit in Excel, a Search gadget, Bing Maps, ... . Freddy gave a demo of Edit In Excel, and explained how it worked in general: the fact…

Dan Brown started out to make a point: in every aspect in his life, there is NAV involved. So he did a competition with Jan Silleman, where they tried to name as much NAV Customers as possible, which are a daily influence in their live. Both Dan and Jan came up with Wind Surfing Materials, cheese, Carlsberg, Adidas, BMW, VW, NAV Winery (Napa Valley if I'm not mistaken). But also Stanley ... who happens to be a customer of iFacto, my company :-) (we handle the European services). Nice coincidence. Jan Silleman continued with the three focuspoints of Dynamics NAV: Simplicity (which is my personal…

It's over, done, gedaan ... . I spent a three-week holiday in the States, driving around in the State parks like Grand Canyon (indeed, David ;°) )and such ... seen a LOT of things, people, ... ate a LOT of (bad) food (and gained about 7 kilos). Now I'm ending my 4-week US adventure in Atlanta with Convergence ... and it looks promising. Too bad I had to miss out the user-group day yesterday as I arrived too late, but anyway ... . You can imagine, three weeks away from work, that means: lots of emails. When I opened my mailbox this morning, I had about 686 unread mails. Luckily some of them were…

My second auto-blog entry ... . Now I should be heading to San Francisco ... Alcatraz, here I come (but won't stay ... [:/])! If you're a NAV developer, you all probably know CodeGenius. It's a small but powerful tool when you're a NAV consultant. Here you can find out all about it. I always use it for the "Client Manager", not that much for the coding. Now, with NAV 2009, we've got a new client, and CodeGenius seems not to support that. You're wrong. There is a way to do it all... . It's just a matter of combining ... . This is how ... Just go to GodeGenius Studio and add a "Third…

This is the first "auto-blog" in my holiday ... if good, I arrived in Los Angeles and I should be heading to Las Vegas .. with the Camper. But anyway ... A while ago, I promised a good friend to blog something he noticed and investigated. Gary Winter is the name, and I'm sure some of you will certainly know him ... especially those who visit conferences once in a while ... he's always there . He noticed a strange behavior of the internal "CurrFieldNo" functionality, which might need your attention, because it can have an impact on your developments. In fact, I'm sure that people have…

Finally .. the moment I've been looking forward to for a long time. This Sunday, Easter Day, I'm leaving for a three-week vacation to the USA West Coast. I will be visiting a lot of places with my camper. And it's going to be great (I'm going to make sure of that). It's my first real (long) holiday in ten years (since I've started working) .. and I can use it, I must say ... . BUT If you were thinking: "FINALLY not being disturbed by Waldo's stupid blogs..." .. then I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you. I have written a few blogs and published them week after week ... so sorry to disappoint…