Extensibility
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Open .net SDK command prompt here!
Barry Fitzgerald from Gumdrop books (a NAV 2009 customer) sent me a hint to another blog post, which in short talks about how to add a menu item to your folder menus like this: http://www.theproblemsolver.nl/dotnet_faq_0016.htm This would open a command prompt, starting in this directory ready to use Visual Studio tools like SN (which you need for Client extensibility) or RegAsm (which you need for COM development). I found it pretty nice, so I thought I would share this. On...
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Auto Deployment of Client Side Components – take 2
Updated the link to the ComponentHelper msi on 12/11/2009 Please read my first post about auto deployment of Client side components here before reading this. As you know, my first auto deployment project contained a couple of methods for automatically adding actions to pages, but as one of my colleagues in Germany (Carsten Scholling) told me, it would also need to be able to add fields to tables programmatically in order to be really useful. In fact, he didn’t just...
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Timer events on a page
Have you ever wanted to have an event raised every 10th second on a page in the RoleTailored Client? Wait no more – here is how you can do just that in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009SP1. A Timer control is a Non-Visual Add-In I have seen a number of development platforms treat a Timer as a Non-Visual Add-In (including .net) – so I thought I would try to create a non-visual Add-In for NAV – and what better than create...
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Using touchscreens with the RoleTailored Client
I LOVE the RoleTailored Client, I LOVE the fact that everything is metadata driven and i LOVE what this will give us (us being everybody using NAV) going forward. As a result of the investments leading to NAV 2009, NAV has by far the most modern UX and the new framework allows us to innovate faster and more consistent than any other ERP solution out there. We can change the UX to follow Microsoft Office 2010 if we decide to,...
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Auto deployment of Client Side Components
NOTE: There is an updated post on Auto deployment of Client Side Components here. When you install the RoleTailored Client on a number of clients, you might need to install a number of Client side components as well. This might not sound as too much of a problem when you need to install the client anyway – but lets say you install an ISV Add-on with a live customer, who already have 100 clients install – and now you need...
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Integration to Virtual Earth – Part 4 (out of 4)
(a small change added that simplifies the SmallVEControl class definition) With the release of NAV 2009 SP1 CTP2 (to MVPs, TAP and BAP) and the official release of the statement of Direction, I can now write about the last part of the integration to Virtual Earth. People who hasn’t access to NAV 2009 SP1, will unfortunately have to wait until the official release until they can take advantage of this post. Please not that you should read Part 1, Part...
