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  NAV 2009 Book - more details on PACKT site If you are interested in our book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, you can find a couple of things of interest on the PACKT web site. First of all, there is the table of contents for the book. Then there is an article based upon some of the examples... Read More... Published: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 11:14 PM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009, Implementation, Book

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  A New Home for Vjeko's Blog Way back in February of this year, I made a post about a blog that appeared on my Google Alerts for Navision that really caught my eye. Now Vjeko's blog has moved to a new home: http://www.NavigateIntoSuccess.com . It has a new sleek look, new features... Read More... Published: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 10:23 AM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009, Dynamics NAV, Opinion, Blog

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  Where did my Web service go? I was recently playing around with Codeunit Web services in NAV 2009 and after making a change which involved adding a function to my Codeunit, the Web service was no longer available for me to call. I brought up the list of the services on my computer... Read More... Published: Monday, December 22, 2008, 11:45 PM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009, Web Services, Top Tip, Programming C/AL, Technology

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  Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 What a great way to wake up! You can now pre-order our book. I woke up this morning to see that the link to pre-order the book with a discount was up on the PACKT site. Wow! I have co-authored this book with my good friend Vjekoslav Babić , and I can... Read More... Published: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 02:12 PM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009, Web Services, Dynamics NAV, Top Tip, Programming C/AL, Technology, Implementation, Opinion, Upgrades, Book, Reporting Services, Dynamics NAV 6.0

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  Dan Brown Loves NAV 2009 (and so do I) Well done to the product team for getting NAV 2009 released to market. It's been a long haul for them and what they've acheived is truly remarkable. Dan Brown has made a blog post on the NAV Team Blog ( read it here ) in which he talks about the... Read More... Published: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 01:39 PM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009, Opinion

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  Watch out for the Demo Install I'm amazed at how simple the demonstration install of NAV 2009 is. Click one button and it goes ahead and installs everything you need. A word of warning though, if you use this option and you have an existing NAV version installed (such as NAV 5... Read More... Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 12:50 AM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009, Install

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  He's Been! Santa came early this year and he's left me a shiny new download of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. Yes that's right! It's finally here. If you have access to PartnerSource, you can download it from the NAV 2009 Download Page . I installed it... Read More... Published: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 11:07 PM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009

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  CodeCamp 2008 - NAV Resources Presenting on NAV to CodeCamp was great fun. Here are some follow up links. I was asked if there was a way to get hold of the product to play with. The answer is that the you can download NAV 5.0 from MSDN if you have a MSDN subscription and you can also... Read More... Published: Monday, November 03, 2008, 02:28 PM Tags: Dynamics NAV, Programming C/AL

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  Freddy's Blog Delivers the Goods on NAV 2009 It's great to see more and more MS guys blogging their stuff on Dynamics NAV 2009. Freddys Blog from Freddy Kristiansen is the latest find for me and his first posts are out of this world. This is the sort of stuff that is only available from the... Read More... Published: Sunday, November 02, 2008, 04:35 PM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009

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  NAV 2009 Web Services and InfoPath I gave an introductory talk at Christchurch CodeCamp 2008 on Dynamics NAV from a Developer's Perspective yesterday but unfortunately ran out of time before being able to show this example of consuming a page web service in an InfoPath form, so I figured... Read More... Published: Saturday, November 01, 2008, 07:03 PM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009, New Features, Web Services

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  New Zealand Box-biting Championships 2008 Our New Zealand Microsoft Dynamics NAV User Group had a fantastic two-day conference in Hanmer Springs this week. Mason Robinson did a great job of organizing this event - which normally consists of a morning meeting with lunch, but this time comprised... Read More... Published: Friday, October 24, 2008, 02:04 AM Tags: NAV User Group

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  NAV 2009 Edit in Excel At our recent NAV User Group conference, I had the pleasure of seeing some new NAV 2009 functionality demoed by our local Microsoft ERP Expert. In the demo, Sue set a filter on a list of records (I think it was a vendor list) and then from the Actions... Read More... Published: Friday, October 24, 2008, 01:54 AM Tags: Send to Application, Dynamics NAV 2009, New Features, Web Services, Excel, Send to Excel

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  Careful with those Captions! On occasions I have needed a table that is similar to an existing table but with maybe some changes that I didn't want to have to make to the standard system (such as adding a field to the primary key). One easy way to do this is to design the table... Read More... Published: Monday, October 06, 2008, 12:37 AM Tags: Debugger, SQL, Dynamics NAV 5.0, Dynamics NAV, Top Tip, Programming C/AL

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  New MVP Award Last week I found out that I have been awarded an MVP for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This is a great honour and I am looking forward to the coming year with great enthusiasm. If you are at all interested in Dynamics NAV, you can't help but know that... Read More... Published: Friday, October 03, 2008, 04:27 PM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009, Dynamics NAV, MVP

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  Calling Web Services in the Marketing Beta of NAV 2009 My first experience of using web services in the Marketing Release (CTP4) for Dynamics NAV 2009 resulted in a couple of errors. The first one I experienced was a bit of confusion over the way Visual Studio 2008 handles web services. If I had read through... Read More... Published: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 12:31 AM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009, New Features, Web Services, Technology

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  Everybody Lies The Dr. House approach to requirements analysis This posting was first published on the Intergen Blog Site on the 26th September. Gregory House M.D. is a maverick medical genius who, in each TV episode, heads a team of diagnosticians in their attempts... Read More... Published: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 03:45 PM Tags: Implementation, Opinion, Yellow, Blog

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  SQL Code Beautifier It's funny - I've looked for some kind of "improve my layout" type function in SQL Management Studio loads of times but never found it. Then (and I don't know why I never tried this before) I searched for SQL Code Beautifier in Live... Read More... Published: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 02:17 AM Tags: SQL, Top Tip

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  When Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V Fails--Send to Excel Saves the Day! The other day a very scary thing happened to me-copy and paste from NAV failed! I was on a sales order and I copied the sales lines to the clipboard and pasted them to Excel. Nothing new there, we've been able to do this for years and it's been... Read More... Published: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 02:05 AM Tags: Send to Application, Send to Excel, Dynamics NAV 5.0, Top Tip

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  Where Am I? Now I know! I wrote some posts a while ago when Waldo's post on his blog inspired me to write a little tool similar to the one he was blogging about. I added some features and wanted it to look nice but I came up short in trying to get the FORM to stay open.... Read More... Published: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 01:33 AM Tags: Dynamics NAV, Programming C/AL

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  Awesome Vista Sidebar Gadget App Launcher I've only just started to use Vista's Sidebar gadgets in anger. Sure I had the inevitable clock and the Weather forecast and even a calendar but the few times I had searched for something in the gallery I came up with a real "... Read More... Published: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 12:51 AM Tags: Top Tip, Opinion, Vista Sidebar Gadgets

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  What's New in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 There is a new training course available for download from PartnerSource and CustomerSource. I'm not the first to blog about this, but NAV 2009 is definitely a hot topic, and I only came across this today, so if I've missed it, I'm sure there... Read More... Published: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 02:56 AM Tags: Dynamics NAV 2009, New Features, Technology, PartnerSource

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  Intergen in top 5% of Microsoft Dynamics Partners Intergen has been honoured with membership of the 2008 Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club which consists of the top 5% of Microsoft Dynamics partners worldwide. Intergen received this top recognition from Microsoft during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner... Read More... Published: Saturday, July 26, 2008, 07:10 PM Tags: Dynamics NAV, Opinion, Yellow

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  Where did I put that trigger? I needed to put some SQL triggers on my NAV tables the other day and when I came to check which triggers existed today, I had forgotten how I did it originally. Here's a quick SQL script that will show you all table triggers in the current database... Read More... Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 03:37 AM Tags: SQL, Top Tip

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  I love TRANSFERFIELDS. I've been doing a fair bit of coding recently and I must admit I love the concept of transferfields and the simplicity. It's really nice to know that when a customer wants a field to work it's way through to the posted documents from the source... Read More... Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 03:33 AM Tags: Opinion

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  I hate TRANSFERFIELDS - Part II I hate the TRANSFERFIELDS command. The last time I ranted about it I seemed to stir up some strong feelings, so I figured it’s time to bring this one up again. Last time I commented on how the unsuspecting developer has no way of knowing what is going... Read More... Published: Friday, June 27, 2008, 03:52 AM Tags: New Features, Dynamics NAV, Programming C/AL, Opinion, Rant