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New Developer - C++ vs C# vs C/AL

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Posted on by Amit Arora 417

I  am a developer, coming from .NET/C# paradigm, accidently landing in NAV domain. Trying to learn NAV, seems to be humongous to start with.

Query - Nav 5.0 was c++ based, while 2009 was rewritten in c#/.net framework. And C/AL is the application language while developing/extending NAV.

While not so useful, this tiny information is not available on web.

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  • keoma Profile Picture
    keoma 32,729 on at
    RE: New Developer - C++ vs C# vs C/AL

    what concrete is your question?

  • Amit Arora Profile Picture
    Amit Arora 417 on at
    RE: New Developer - C++ vs C# vs C/AL

    I just mean i see mention of these three languages while reading about NAV, just want to know relevance of them (C++, C# and C/AL) with NAV

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    keoma Profile Picture
    keoma 32,729 on at
    RE: New Developer - C++ vs C# vs C/AL

    hi,

    C/AL is THE programming language of dynamics nav.

    C++ and C# have only few relevance. they can only be used to develope so called add-ins for dynamics nav.

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    Tharanga Chandrasekara Profile Picture
    Tharanga Chandrasekara 23,118 on at
    RE: New Developer - C++ vs C# vs C/AL

    Microsoft Dynamics NAV comes with a separate Development Environment ( Like Visual Studio - But looks totally different) in that you can only be able to use C/AL programming language.

    That means all the NAV related developments can only be done using C/AL programming language.

    However with the feature call Control add-ins you can import dll files. So to develop these dll files you can use C# and C++

    Refer below link : msdn.microsoft.com/.../dd983814.aspx

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../dd983700(v=nav.70).aspx

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