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Read and Help - "How We Use MSDN Feedback to Improve Help"

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

Yesterday, Jill Frank, Senior Programming Writer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, posted a blog on msdn How We Use MSDN Feedback to Improve Help . I would really want to encourage you to read it and pick the gauntlet she is throwing at us. As MS Dynamics GDL...
How I Reviewed Specs @ Microsoft - Prologue

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

Quality is something that has been in my veins for ages already. Although many around me might expect so, I cannot claim I was born with it. I can clearly recall my father rebuking me because of my sloppiness. Maybe that was just adolescent matters, who...
All around NAV dev ...

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

... and test. As you might have noticed: the sub title to my blog. Last Sunday's great 'pat on the back' from Vjekslav Babic (once again: thanx!) explicitly mentioned the test part of my blog and, to be honest, next to the fact that it...
MS Test Manager 2010 & NAV

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

As I wrote on my previous blog post, I "... was greatly impressed by [the Test Manager's] ability to support manual testing and even let you record and code them ... " [... Read More ...] Yesterday and today I spent some time to download...
Dynamics and DevDays - will they ever meet?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

When reading both Mark's and Waldo's blog on their pioneering endeavor at the Swedish TechDays, i.e. presenting Dynamics NAV, I was not fully surprised. Don't get me wrong - read below. For years I have already been following the Dutch...
It's not Report Transformation but Report Redesign

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

Oh gosh, what's in a name? Yesterday I wanted to see what information the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Developer and IT Pro Documentation exactly contained about transforming reports for RTC, but could not find it as I was looking for transform...
Update 2 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 available

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

Lately I was (again) really considering letting go of my RSS subscription to the MSDN blogs and again, one single blog among so many, made me glad I didn't: Update 2 für Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP 1 verfügbar by Sebastian Röttel...
"Where Used" as simple as you can get it

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

Ever needed a quick and easy way to determine where a specific function is being used? Or a even a specific object? And not wanting to go through the hassle of setting up the Navision Developer's Toolkit (NDT) or IDYN's Object Manager ? Well...
Changing the CustomSettings.config file

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

Yesterday I wanted to check something on RTC when I got this message: --------------------------- Microsoft Dynamics NAV --------------------------- The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server cannot connect the Change Listener to SQL Server because of the following...
SQL Server 2008 Express #2: How-Do-I videos

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

Want to learn more about SQL Server 2008 Express? Still think it's just nothing worth at all? Or ...? Sit down and watch here . Thanx to Beth Massi .
Posting Queue - Part 2

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

As I wrote last week in part 1 " ...I thought I might spend a blog post (or two) and go into details including some sample coding (see Part 2) " and thereby putting myself in debt. So here I am with part 2. Since last week I had spent some...
Posting Queue - Part 1

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

Like probably many of us, every now and then I sit down to search and browse through some of the old postings on dynamicsuser.net or mibuso.com . To learn new things, to get inspiration for a new blog post or just to see what's going on. That's...
Progress Dialogs and Performance

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

It's good practice to program dialogs to inform users on the state or progress of a process. Like in standard NAV when posting a sales invoice: or a journal: But did you ever had to post dozens (or even hundreds or thousands) of sales...
Validating Data #6: User Input - RTC

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

I still recall, when I started using Role Tailored Client (RTC), that one of the things of that really surprised me was the error messages that appeared in the yellow ribbon . Well, it was actually not the message as such, or the yellow ribbon...
Real Online Help for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

The help provided with Navision/NAV has always been called online help to the dismay of some people as it really wasn't on-line . Since almost a year, however, this 'online' help has been put on-line. And as I experienced, on some Dynamics...
Waiting for HIRS@MS part 1?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

I am sorry, but I will keep you waiting for a week or so as I will be on holidays enjoying the Southern French atmosphere. Hope the weather will not keep me from doing that. Au révoir.
How to Set View Mode on Pages as Default

Posted over 3 years ago

by Anonymous

One technical incident we posted to MS some weeks ago which might be of interest to you. Initially I posted it on mibuso.com , but did not get a satisfactory reply on that. You will however find the workaround suggested by the MS engineer to me also on...
How-to: Get Edit In Excel R2 Up and Running

Posted over 2 years ago

by Anonymous

Wanting to prepare a nice RTC demo I recalled that freddyk had built a interesting example of how to manipulate NAV data through Excel. So yesterday I sat down searched for the relevant blog posts and ... started reading: Edit in Excel Part...
Andy Jordan - Quality, Not Testing

Posted over 2 years ago

by Anonymous

Today I was reading an interesting internet article by Andy Jordan called Quality, Not Testing . Not in the least because of the comments added to it. As Jordan writes, quality and testing "are ... very closely tied together" and as such...
How-to: Change the CustomSettings.config file - Web Services

Posted over 2 years ago

by Anonymous

For the second time in little over a week I ran into the same situation where, after updating the CustomSettings.config file and restarting the NAV Server , RTC was still connected to the previous database. The first time this happened I eventually got...
How-to: Add Freeze Pane

Posted over 2 years ago

by Anonymous

Last week I attended an internal event where during one of the break-out sessions my younger colleague Andras Zippel did a very good presentation on RTC arousing quite some enthusiasm in the group. Worthwhile mentioning is that he only recently started...
My First Millenium

Posted over 2 years ago

by Anonymous

When I open my blog control panel the dashboard parts shows statistics on the number of recent views and recent posts: Just now I noticed that my post on MS Test Manager 2010 & NAV is my first one hitting a thousand. So one big thanx to all...
PowerPoint Presentations on Partner Source

Posted over 2 years ago

by Anonymous

As I am preparing some RTC demos I had been roaming around on Partner Source for some good ideas and had a look at the demo scripts . I down loaded various of them including some PowerPoint presentations like the Introduction to NAV 2009 PPT . The link...
Did you ever vote on Microsoft Connect?

Posted over 2 years ago

by Anonymous

In our onward going strive to get our verticals as efficient as possible on the market we were recently discussing whether we should continue our own Links feature or should abandon it and fully adopt the standard NAV version. One of the arguments against...
Please, don't reinvent the wheel - C&P chapter 4

Posted over 2 years ago

by Anonymous

This morning I received an update mail from Microsoft support on a technical incident that felt I had logged ages ago. To be honest: it's 3 months old, reported on April 13th of this year. A good old colleague is the Escalation Engineer (EE) on this...

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