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Connecting to NAV Web Services from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1
Please read this post to get a brief explanation of the scenario I will implement in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1. Please also read this post in order to understand how Web Services works using pure XML and no fancy objects. Like Javascript, NAV 2009 SP1 does not natively have support for consuming Web Services. It does however have support for both Client and Server side COM automation and XmlHttp (which is compatible with XmlHttpRequest which we used in the...
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What COMPANY to use?
As you know, when creating an application consuming NAV Web Services you need to specify the Company name as part of the URL to the Web Service, but what company should you be using? Some applications are web front-ends placing data from the web application into NAV. For applications like this you typically would have a config file in which you specify what company things needs to go to. For these applications, this post adds no further value. Other applications...
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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...
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Search in NAV 2009 – Part 3 (out of 3)
If you haven’t read part 2 and part 1 of the Search in NAV 2009 posts, you should do so before continuing. This is the 3rd and final part of the Search in NAV 2009 post. In this section I will show how to create a Windows Vista Gadget and have this gadget connect to NAV through Web Services and search in NAV (like the System Tray version in part 2). We will create an installable Gadget like: and when...
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Search in NAV 2009 – Part 2 (out of 3)
If you haven’t read part 1 of the Search in NAV 2009, you should do so before continuing. In this section we will create a small Winforms application, which uses the Web Service we just created in part 1. Our application will be visible as a System Tray Icon, it will have a global Windows Hotkey with which we can activate search and when you activate the Search application it will popup and look like this In part 3 we...
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Search in NAV 2009 – Part 1 (out of 3)
During the partner keynote and during a couple of the other presentations, we showed a small application, which was able to search in NAV 2009 through multiple tables, display a result set and allow people to drill into task pages in NAV 2009 from the search result window. During the next 3 posts, I will explain how this demo is done and make it available for download. The sample comes with absolutely no warranty, but you can download it and...
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Creating and Running Hyperlinks
In the developer help for NAV 2009 (nav_adg.chm), there is a description for creating and running Hyperlinks – I will not try to repeat all the information in the documentation – so please read the documentation before reading this post. There are however a couple of thing, which are not described in detail. My next post is about the Search demo, which was shown at Convergence yesterday (Partner day) – I will describe how this demo is done, in a...
