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Let PRL Help You (How I Could Have Been So Stupid Not To)

Posted 1 month ago

by Luc van Vugt

More than six months now that NAV 2013 was sent out to the world. Over six months of gettting ready to program and sell this new gem in the NAV cosmos. Or even longer for those at MS and those that particapted in the TAP program. And still many of us...
Providing Companies to Write Their Own Help Using OneNote

Posted 1 month ago

by Luc van Vugt

Prior to NAV 5.0 end-user companies could add their own notes and instructions to any help topic by means of the Company Notes feature. I recall I was happily using it when writing the Help for the Dutch localization as part of the 4.0 project back in...
Real F1 Online Help for Your Add-On?

Posted 1 month ago

by Luc van Vugt

Each time I am involved in some way with a Dynamics NAV partner with respect to Help for their add-on, inevitably the issue of wanting to have their help on-line pops up. There are many things to be said about this which I am not going to address in this...
Ever used ShowHelpID? (or: How-to: Enable Help Debug Mode)

Posted 1 month ago

by Luc van Vugt

Now that MS is enforcing CfMD on partners more and more, we all are faced with the requirement to build a help system, that goes with your add-on, more and more. Hence many of you have been working on creating a HTML help project (or even multiple) as...
NAV 2013 - Debugger

Posted 1 month ago

by Luc van Vugt

Not a very creative title, right? Indeed I am not the first one to blog about this. And surely I am not going to redo the great job my fellow MVP Daniel Rimmelzwaam has done month ago. If you haven't read his post yet, you have to go out and read...
Workshop NAV Online Help for CfMD

Posted 2 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

"It giet oan" as the Friesians would say. Monday March 25, 2013 I will conduct a workshop NAV Online Help for CfMD in Veenendaal (NL). Still some places left. If you are interested feel free to contact me by mail at lvanvugt@fluxxus.nl .
Workshop NAV Online Help for CfMD, March 25, 2013

Posted 2 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

"It giet oan" as the Friesians would say. Monday March 25, 2013 I will conduct a workshop NAV Online Help for CfMD in Veenendaal (NL). Still some places left. If you are interested feel free to contact me by mail at lvanvugt@fluxxus.nl .
TechDays 2013, The Hague (NL)

Posted 2 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

With our full, newly formed development team we joined the first day of the TechDays 2013 in The Hague (NL). Consisting mainly of .NET developers there was an ocean of presentation to choose from. Being a NAV techy only this ocean was reduced to the size...
How-to: Deploy Your Help Project

Posted 2 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

Typically an issue that keeps popping up every now and then on the NAV forums. You have managed to learn to create Help for your add-on and compile your Help project to get the .chm and .hh files. Now you're ready to test it from the UI and have...
Call for Response on a Workshop NAV Online Help for CfMD

Posted 2 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

Recently I have been contacted by a number of Dutch partners to help them out on the creation of Online Help for their add-on in the context of CfMD-ing the add-on. Having a longtime experience with Online Help and recently with CfMD I surely will pick...
How-to: Reset Object Properties After Importing a UI Translation (NAV 2013)

Posted 4 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

Recently I had to make sure that captions for both ENU and NLD were present throughout our solution. A job I have being doing many times over the past years and wrote some post about (you will find some here ). One of the last tasks in this process...
A blessed 2013

Posted 4 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

To all of you! Hope 2013 will be a fruitful year for us all. With NAV 2013; that will sure help! With my job at Imtech ICT that stopped on December 31st; room for new challenges! With our children growing up; we being spectator and participant at the...
CODEUNIT.RUN - Conclusion

Posted 5 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

Contrary to the other run-able CSIDE objects - i.e. Page, Report and XMLport - we can run a Codeunit and catch the result from this execution: TRUE or FALSE Syntax : [Ok :=] Codeunit.RUN(Number[, Record]) So if we call CODEUNIT.RUN...
CODEUNIT.RUN #3

Posted 6 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

All good things come in threes, as they say. So here is 3. Codeunit 50000: OnRun() ShipMethod.INIT; ShipMethod.INSERT; ShipMethod.INSERT; // This duplicate statement has been put here intentionally Codeunit 50001: OnRun() IF CODEUNIT.RUN(50000)...
ISV Insert Rights Available for NAV 2013 Licenses

Posted 6 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

There has been quite some fuzz about the NAV 2013 partner licenses. Especially about the missing ISV Insert Rights. On one of my previous posts Gary Winter commented that this omission was "a bug in the licensing tool that does not allow partners...
Application Test Toolset for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 - Available Now

Posted 6 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

Just to spread the news I am copying Simon Ejsing's announcement on mibuso: simonejsing Post subject: Test Toolset for NAV 2013 - 9000 tests for free Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:31 pm ...
NAV2013 Beta to RTM - Some Striking Code Changes #8: IF-THEN-ELSE

Posted 6 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

This last item in my NAV2013 Beta to RTM - Some Striking Code Changes series is addressing code changes NAV core team made to get IF-THEN-ELSE statements coding standards compliant. If you read the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Developer and IT Pro Documentation...
NAV2013 Beta to RTM - Some Striking Code Changes #7: CASE Layout

Posted 6 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

Although the coding standards are unambiguous about the layout of CASE statements , there has always been practiced an alternative flavor. Both within MS and outside. This is the standard syntax: CASE <Expression> OF <Value set...
NAV2013 Beta to RTM - Some Striking Code Changes #6: Redundant BEGIN ... END

Posted 6 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

Read with me what the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Developer and IT Pro Documentation phrases on BEGIN/END, i.e. compound, statement: In some cases, the C/AL syntax only allows you to use a single statement. If however you have to execute more than...
NAV2013 Beta to RTM - Some Striking Code Changes #5: Calling Functions wo Parameters

Posted 6 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

In my previous post in this series I addressed the first sync with coding standards, i.e. removal of redundant record references. This post is about a small one, but nevertheless a sync with coding standards. Have a look at COD400 (see screen shot). It's...
On NAV 2013 Licenses - Part 2 | Add-on Ranges

Posted 7 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

So in my chat with MS operations on insert rights for our add-on on NAV 2103 it became clear why we didn't have these insert rights (yet) in our newly configured NAV 2013 development/demo license. Gary Winter's comment however argues this and...
NAV2013 Beta to RTM - Some Striking Code Changes #4: Redundant Record References

Posted 7 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

In C/AL we address fields and methods of record variables using the syntax <Record>.<Field> and <Record>.<Method> . To make coding somewhat simpler and the resulting code leaner, with the goal of being easier to read, C/SIDE -...
NAV2013 Beta to RTM - Some Striking Code Changes #3: Unused Variables

Posted 7 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

After more than 10 years working with NAV it's a bit hard to tell what I like about NAV so much, as this might be polluted by the sheer fact that I am too intertwined with it that I do not know any better. But still, I think (!) I am quite sure that...
Why is MS asking me to help improve PartnerSource/CustomerSource? - Part 4 of <undefined>

Posted 7 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

No nagging today, but only cheerfulness as I finally did get through one of those Partner/CustomerSource surveys. Proof, proof, proof! And sure, I took this chance to once more tell elegantly what s.cks the most...
NAV2013 Beta to RTM - Some Striking Code Changes #2: FIND

Posted 7 months ago

by Luc van Vugt

Going from NAV 2009 R2 to Beta we can observe that quite some FIND ('-') and FIND('+') had been replaced by FINDFIRST and FINDLAST and from Beta to RTM almost the same number of replacements. Some additonal math shows us that almost half...

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