Navigate Into Success

Retiring NavigateIntoSuccess.com

Vjeko — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:02:53 GMT

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...(read more)

How Do I… Videos on MSDN

Vjeko — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Transaction Integrity with Connected Systems

Vjeko — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:30:50 GMT

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...(read more)

Cross-Call State Sharing in Web Services

Vjeko — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:11:52 GMT

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...(read more)

Some tips and hints about temporary tables

Vjeko — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:26:53 GMT

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...(read more)

Web Services Black Belt: consuming NAV web services using pure C/AL

Vjeko — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:23:29 GMT

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...(read more)

Benchmarking Results: NAV 2013 Outperforms All Previous Versions

Vjeko — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:50:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Top 5 SQL Server Improvements in NAV 2013

Vjeko — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:13:05 GMT

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...(read more)

NAV Expert Panel Session Begins

Vjeko — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:53:19 GMT

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...(read more)

Decisions Spring 2013 Kicking-off Next Week

Vjeko — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:45:21 GMT

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...(read more)

Unlimited Text Length in NAV 2013

Vjeko — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:25:36 GMT

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...(read more)

Length of G/L Account Name in NAV 2013

Vjeko — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:41:46 GMT

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...(read more)

NAV 2013 beta mini-launch at Adriatics Community

Vjeko — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:52:04 GMT

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...(read more)

Generics in .NET Interop for NAV 2013

Vjeko — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:55:54 GMT

.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...(read more)

Hello, unicode!

Vjeko — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:11:52 GMT

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....(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Beta Available!

Vjeko — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:20:48 GMT

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...(read more)

Dynamics Top 100 Nominations for 2012

Vjeko — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:52:04 GMT

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...(read more)

Passing strongly-typed data to Web services

Vjeko — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:32:59 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics Mayhem

Vjeko — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:13:59 GMT

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...(read more)

Web Reference vs. Service Reference, Part 3

Vjeko — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:44:13 GMT

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...(read more)

Web Reference vs. Service Reference, Part 2

Vjeko — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:04:49 GMT

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...(read more)

Web Reference vs. Service Reference, Part 1

Vjeko — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:38:55 GMT

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...(read more)

Bug theater in Web services #5

Vjeko — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:38:13 GMT

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...(read more)

Bug theater in Web services #4

Vjeko — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Bug theater in Web services #3

Vjeko — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:24:28 GMT

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...(read more)