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Retiring NavigateIntoSuccess.com

Posted 3 days ago

by Vjeko

A couple of months ago, when I asked my friends on Facebook and Twitter if anybody knows how to move a WordPress blog to another domain, everybody said that I was crazy. You don’t do these things, they said. And yet, when they heard the reason why I was...
How Do I… Videos on MSDN

Posted 2 months ago

by Vjeko

MSDN has started running a series of the How do I… videos for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (feed here). The idea is to showcase a technical feature in 5-15 minutes. The project is still ongoing, but a number of videos have just been released and announced...
Transaction Integrity with Connected Systems

Posted 2 months ago

by Vjeko

With .NET Interoperability around, it’s very likely you’ll be synchronously calling external web services from C/AL, to exchange data. I won’t go into discussing whether or not this kind of architecture is good (my own position is that it isn’t), you...
Cross-Call State Sharing in Web Services

Posted 2 months ago

by Vjeko

Web services in NAV have an interesting feature: they are stateless. For a system which is pretty stateful otherwise, this feature can be outright annoying. You must get used to it, and then make sure you never ever write code as if there was any state...
Some tips and hints about temporary tables

Posted 6 months ago

by Vjeko

Temporary tables in NAV are a great thing, and are frequently used, but there are some misconceptions about them. I see developers do the same mistakes time after time and again. In this post I’ll address some common misconceptions and give some tips...
Web Services Black Belt: consuming NAV web services using pure C/AL

Posted 7 months ago

by Vjeko

Have you ever needed to connect to the Web services of one NAV instance from another one? If so, I bet that the approach was something like this: you created a .NET class where you defined a Web or Service reference to the target instance, and then you...
Benchmarking Results: NAV 2013 Outperforms All Previous Versions

Posted 10 months ago

by Vjeko

Marketing is nice as long as it matches the reality. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, Microsoft has promised a lot of improvements, but how well does NAV 2013 stand the reality test? Apparently, outstandingly well. Over the past two days, I have...
Top 5 SQL Server Improvements in NAV 2013

Posted 10 months ago

by Vjeko

Performance is one of those things you can’t get enough of and NAV is one of those systems where an extra operation per second is always welcome. Yesterday, during the Expert Panel at the NAV day of the Decisions Spring conference, there was a question...
NAV Expert Panel Session Begins

Posted 11 months ago

by Vjeko

I’m right now sitting in the virtual lobby of the NAV Expert Panel Session of the NAV day of the Decisions Spring 2012 conference. The panel features three MVPs, three book authors, and established members of the NAV community: Eric Wauters, Matt Traxinger...
Decisions Spring 2013 Kicking-off Next Week

Posted 11 months ago

by Vjeko

Make sure not to miss Decisions , the virtual conference about Microsoft Dynamics, by MSDynamicsWorld.com . It’s starting next Monday, and I hope you already have it in your calendar. It’s a four day conference, a day per Dynamics flavor (SL is the only...
Unlimited Text Length in NAV 2013

Posted 11 months ago

by Vjeko

Have you noticed already that in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 the text variables can have unlimited length? That’s quite a leap ahead of the previous versions which couldn’t handle more than 1024 characters per variable. If you wanted to achieve bug-free...
Length of G/L Account Name in NAV 2013

Posted 11 months ago

by Vjeko

A small but important change often slips under the radar of the What’s New kinds of documents. One of those is the standard length of the Name field in G/L Account table. I’ve just noticed that in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 the length of this field has...
NAV 2013 beta mini-launch at Adriatics Community

Posted 11 months ago

by Vjeko

If you want to learn more about the upcoming release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, and you are from Zagreb, or don’t mind coming to it, the next community event of Microsoft Dynamics Community Adriatics will be fully dedicated to NAV 2013. There are...
Generics in .NET Interop for NAV 2013

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

.NET Framework is full of programming conceptual gems, that are now at the fingertips of us poor C/AL folks. One of those is generics . However, the C/AL support for generics at the first glance seems rather limited, and the help file says that you can...
Hello, unicode!

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

你好，世界！გამარჯობა, მსოფლიო! હેલો, વિશ્વ! مرحبا، العالم! שלום, עולם! नमस्ते, दुनिया! こんにちは世界 ಹಲೋ, ವಿಶ್ವದ! 안녕하세요, 세계! Γεια σου, κόσμε! Привет, мир! வணக்கம், உலக! హలో, ప్రపంచం! สวัสดีโลก! No, no, I didn’t go fully crazy yet, but I’m surely closing in....
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Beta Available!

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

I don’t know about you, but I think today is a great day: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Beta has been published on PartnerSource, and if you have access, you can download it from here . I’ve been playing around with CTPs for more quite a while, and even...
Dynamics Top 100 Nominations for 2012

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

It’s the fourth year of DynamicsWorld’s Microsoft Dynamics Most Influential People Top 100 list, and it’s the nomination time. Last year I’ve somehow found my way onto this list (and I certainly didn’t nominate myself), and it seems somebody has nominated...
Passing strongly-typed data to Web services

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

Passing strongly-typed data to NAV Web services can be trickier than it seems. If you are lucky, you can make your method accept strongly-typed parameters, and you are good to go. However, if you just can’t avoid sending text data, your text must be encoded...
Microsoft Dynamics Mayhem

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

If you thought “here he comes again” with the bugs and stuff, no – this is not about it. This is just about a new sales campaign launched by PACKT Publishing , the good guys who published my and Dave’s book three years ago, and plenty other good books...
Web Reference vs. Service Reference, Part 3

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

Fasten your seatbelts, you are in for the next round of Web Reference vs. Service Reference, which brings an unexpected twist to the story. After giving reasons why not to use Web References, I’ll now put my devil’s advocate ’s hat on, and try to have...
Web Reference vs. Service Reference, Part 2

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

A beauty of Web services is that they don’t need to care at all about who’s consuming them. Whether there is .NET on Windows, Java on Linux or some proprietary stuff on an iPad on the other end, they do exactly the same stuff. To make it short: if something...
Web Reference vs. Service Reference, Part 1

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

Once upon a time, Freddy has delivered a great series on connecting to NAV Web Services from a smorgasbord of technology flavors. If you are a .NET enthusiast, like me, the obvious choice is to connect through the tools that are at your disposal in Visual...
Bug theater in Web services #5

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

Last Monday I’ve attended my second daughter’s birth, and then spent the week trying to relieve my wife as much as possible from anything but breastfeeding. As a matter of fact, I’d like to keep doing it, it was not only a great break from daily worries...
Bug theater in Web services #4

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

In my country, there’s a saying: “A good horse has a hundred flaws; a bad one has only one.” It’s bad. People have asked me why I am doing this, and if I hate Web services because I’m blogging about their flaws. In fact, I love Web services, and as...
Bug theater in Web services #3

Posted over 1 year ago

by Vjeko

Soren has taught me yesterday that some of the bugs I encountered have been properly disinsected by Microsoft, so other than the workarounds I suggested, there is an option to apply the hotfix and forget about that one. Today, I’ll explain a not so...

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