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I am attempting to utilize the Software Development Kit to build a native SL application. While the documentation seems to be a nice reference there is very little about the way to bring everything together. I was looking for something more such as a document that talked about the functional philosophy of the SWIM API, some code examples, and maybe a simple step by step to build a simple multi level application. I've gotten as far as defining the data structures,  and implementing the cursors yet I don't seem to be getting my dbnav to function. In the past there used to be training materials and a course for SL Development. Any help or direction on where to find more documentation beyond the Software Development Kit pdf is appreciated.

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    Apps Mexico 1,090 on at
    RE: SL2015 Software Development Kit

    Hi,

    This manual will help you to deploy a screen with a Detail level.

    http://appsmexico.mx/shared_folder/manual_vbtools.rar

    Regards.

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    RE: SL2015 Software Development Kit

    Rob,

    Someone might be able to tell the technical reasons why but, yes, both DBNav and PV must have a stored procedure.  The PV must also have an entry in the PVRec.csv file as that is what defines the PV form content and layout.

    I suspect the need for a stored procedure stems way back to the time before Solomon (now Dynamics SL) used a different back-end database then SQL Server.

    We, as toolkit developers, stopped asking why and just ask what is needed and go with that.

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    Community Member on at
    RE: SL2015 Software Development Kit

    Rick, thanks for the offer. I did manage to have some break though moments today. Lots of trial and error. I was wondering, I was using straight up SQL in the DBNAV but didn't have any joy until I switched to stored procedures. I always wondered why so many stored procedures just to select * from sometable where keyfield=@parm1. I'm also guessing that stored procedures are required when doing PV instead of DBNav, at least if you want to invoke the Lookup.

    Thanks again for your time.

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    RE: SL2015 Software Development Kit

    Rob,

    The documentation you are asking for went missing many years back.  I agree that the SDK manual is a decent reference when you want to look for a particular event or action but it sorely lacks a section with an example of creating a screen with a grid from start to finish.  Those of us that have been developing with the SDK have basically learned by trial and error (sometimes lots of trials and errors).

    If you want to provide some more detail on your purpose of the screen, the grid contents,  the DBNAV you have set up and what it is doing or not doing, I would be happy to take a quick look for you.

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