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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)

The Style Sheet Tool for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Kine — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:55:00 GMT

Microsoft has released the tool fro creating Word Stylesheets for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0. You can download it from PartnerSource here (or from this site here ). It includes one FOB file with new objects, which are used to define the stylesheets, and documentation. The process of creating styleheet...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 Beta available for download

Kine — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:59:00 GMT

I found this info on this Microsoft Dynamics NAV UK Blog . The download is accessible on the PartnerSource there . You have two possibility for download: VPC for demo, with installed Office 2007 and NAV 5.0 redy for usage, or you can download the install files....(read more)

NAV 5.0 just for Group 1 countries?

Kine — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:10:00 GMT

Based on MS info the NAV 5.0 will be localized and released just for countries in Group 1. For other countries only the NAV 5.1 (including NAV 5.0) will be released! This is big disappointment for me, because it means that all companies in Gr2 and Gr3 will have new version one year after Gr1. This market...(read more)

NAV 5.0 Preview - Part 3 - Export to external application

Kine — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:47:00 GMT

Today I will try to show you one new cool feature of NAV 5.0 for end-users. NAV 5.0 is able to export any form into XML and using XSLT (template, stylesheet, transformation - you can name it in different ways) can be this XML transformed into another XML. And because MS Word and MS Excel is able to open...(read more)