Rashed Amini

Dynamics Add-in with WPF

Rashed Amini — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:55:19 GMT

I wrote previously about using WPF textbox for automatic spellchecking. In this blog, I will actually talk about a real WPF Visualization that I have been playing with for a while. I didn’t want to build a visualization from scratch, so I searched for...(read more)

Dynamics NAV Addin Example Large Button

Rashed Amini — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:57:57 GMT

Here is another example on how to create custom buttons in NAV and control events when they are pressed. In this example I’m actually using the WinForm Button controls and displaying them on a panel. When the button are pressed Nav code is triggered and...(read more)

Backing up/Transfering Company Specific Data through SQL for Dynamics NAV

Rashed Amini — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:18:00 GMT

Dynamics NAV client has a feature to backup and restore company specific. This process creates an (.fbk) file that contains just the data without indexes. The (.fbk) file can be used to restore in another database. For large database this is a slow process...(read more)

Automatic Spell Checker in Dynamics NAV

Rashed Amini — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:08:14 GMT

I saw some post on mibuso about asking for a spellchecker in Dynamics NAV. I thought it would be an interesting project to implement automatic spellchecking in NAV. I decided to implement it using Add-ins. After some googling, I found that I could use...(read more)

Replacing NAS with SQL Jobs and NAV Web service

Rashed Amini — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:00:28 GMT

Many companies, running Dynamics NAV, use NAS (Navision Application Server) to automate certain processes. Some companies use NAS to schedule to run many jobs at night. Others use it for integration where NAS periodically, using timer automation, checks...(read more)

Dynamics NAV 2009 Sp1 Client Add-ins

Rashed Amini — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:46:43 GMT

When Service Pack 1 was released for Dynamics NAV, it introduced a new feature: Add-ins. I had read the walk-through and was thinking of something useful to build that would utilize the Add-ins feature. Last week a salesperson emailed me and asked me...(read more)

Inventory Valuation in Dynamics NAV

Rashed Amini — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:59:47 GMT

One of the issues customers run into as their database gets bigger and bigger is that their reports take longer and longer to run. One of those reports is the Inventory Valuation report. I’ve always suggested customers to look at SQL reporting services...(read more)

Bing and Dynamics NAV

Rashed Amini — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:35:26 GMT

As some of you know MS has released new and rebranded search engine Bing. I really like their instant video search. The search results were pretty good. I search for VARIABLEACTIVE, and it showed MSDN documentation and that it no longer is supported in...(read more)

Faxing Reports from Dynamics NAV

Rashed Amini — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:48:38 GMT

I saw some question on mibuso forum on how to fax from Navision. This blog is about how to fax from Navision. This is method uses Microsoft Fax Services. You can use this to fax invoices etc to customers that prefer to receive Invoices by Fax. By default...(read more)

Dynamics Nav 2009 Sp1

Rashed Amini — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:05:42 GMT

I recently downloaded the CTP 2 for NAV 2009 NA version. There have many blogs on new features added. I wanted to talk about some of development changes. First change is that DBCS (Double Byte Character Set) is no longer part of fin.stx but rather part...(read more)

Encrypting Data in NAV using SQL with ADO

Rashed Amini — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:57:41 GMT

A lot of Dynamics NAV databases carry sensitive information that by law in some countries need to be encrypted. For example credit card number or social security number. There are many solutions available. The following solution utilizes SQL Server 2005...(read more)

Web service Proxy for NAV Web service

Rashed Amini — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:16:26 GMT

As many of you know Dynamics NAV 2009 is using windows authentication to allow any web services to be consumed. Currently Nav 2009 when it negotiates to negotiate it only uses Kerberos and doesn’t fall back on NTML. This creates connection issues...(read more)

The Green Initiative - NAV Address Verification

Rashed Amini — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:20:32 GMT

I saw this video on Dynamics AX on channel9 . They are talking about a new feature they’ve added to Dynamics AX that allows you to measure a company’s carbon footprint. I thought that in order to use this in NAV, it has to come by default...(read more)

SQL 2008 Compression on NAV Database

Rashed Amini — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:41:08 GMT

SQL Server 2008 has introduced a couple of new features. The feature that interested me most is filtered indexes and compression. In this blog I will talk about my experience with compression. I deal on daily basis with many clients. So I keep a copy...(read more)

Running Job Queue through NAV Web service for Unlimited Companies

Rashed Amini — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:52:23 GMT

I had posted on mibuso a while back on how to use two NAS instances to run job queue for unlimited amount of companies. Here is the link http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=22633 . You had to purchase an additional NAS user license in...(read more)

Upgrading from 5.0 to 2009

Rashed Amini — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:50:19 GMT

I have heard a lot of different things about upgrading to 2009. A lot of customers are unclear on 2009 and how the upgrade is going to work. I wanted to share my experience with an upgrade from 5.0 to 2009 classic. Two of weeks ago I had been scheduled...(read more)