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Creating a view across all companies–part 3

This is the final part in a three part series of blog posts. In part 1 I wrote about how you could use a couple of fields in the $ndo$dbproperty table to create a ConvertInvalidChars() function that would turn your NAV company name into the prefix for...

Published 08-29-2010 2:31 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Programming, NAV 2009 SP1, NAV 2009, SQL

Creating a view across all companies—part 2

In last week’s post I wrote about how you could use a couple of fields in the $ndo$dbproperty table to create a ConvertInvalidChars() function that would turn your NAV company name into the prefix for the table name as it is used in the SQL database....

Published 08-22-2010 4:12 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Programming, NAV 2009 SP1, NAV 2009, SQL

Creating a view across all companies–part 1

The Linked Table Have you ever wanted to search across multiple companies in a NAV database simultaneously? It's really not that difficult as long as you're using a SQL database. In this series of blog posts, I'll give you a step by step guide...

Published 08-15-2010 12:31 p.m. by David Roys

You Could Win Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate + MSDN

In order to drive awareness of the recent launch of Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has given me 2 x Not for Resale (NFR) Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription cards to give away . Take a look on the Visual Studio Product Site and you’ll see...

Published 07-25-2010 12:02 p.m. by David Roys

Action Images

When you want to attach an image to an Action in NAV 2009, you need to pick from one of the standard images and use it to set the Image property. There’s a library with all of the 2009 and 2009 SP1 images on MSDN ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us...

Published 06-22-2010 10:55 p.m. by David Roys

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

I found out today that Mark Brummel (Dynamics NAV MVP and blogger) has written a book on Dynamics NAV 2009. You can read about it on his blog post here , and you can pre-order from the PACKT web site . The one thing I did notice was that the PACKT web...

Published 06-01-2010 10:10 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Book News, NAV 2009, Writing

Dropbox Rocks

I’ve been using Dropbox to help with my writing. It’s a great tool and I think anyone that’s writing for a hobby should have it in their kitbag. They sent me a link that helps people sign up that will give me more storage if you follow it (that’s what...

Published 04-05-2010 8:21 a.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Writing

About This Report – No need to run reports twice

It's been a while since I last made a post and there are a few reasons. Bejweled Blitz on the iPhone is a big part, but also, it seems that there has been a real period of consolidation for me just recently: taking a lot of the things I learnt and...

Published 03-14-2010 4:18 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Programming, NAV 2009 SP1, Tip, Reporting

NAV 2009 Server Starts and then Stops

Have you ever tried to create a NAV 2009 Server service that runs under a domain account and when you try to start it, the service starts and them immediately stops again. Then, if you look in the Windows Event Log for the error message you see something...

Published 01-20-2010 1:31 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: .NET, Gotcha, NAV 2009 SP1, NAV 2009

The specified path is invalid. When using UPLOADINTOSTREAM.

I recently tried using UPLOADINTOSTREAM to load a file from the RoleTailored client into a temporary file on the NAV Server so that I could then process it. This is needed in NAV 2009 because it has three tiers and the tier on which the code executes...

Published 01-01-2010 3:16 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Programming, Gotcha, NAV 2009

Book Review: Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

Author: David Studebaker Publisher: PACKT ISBN: 978-1-847196-52-1 Published: November 2009 Available from the PACKT web site and Amazon.com When I saw that David Studebaker had written a new book on Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009...

Published 12-21-2009 11:53 a.m. by David Roys

Sample Book Chapters

I wanted to find something from Chapter 7 of my book today and I realised that I hadn't posted links to the sample chapters. There are two sample chapters available. Chapter 7 is presented in two articles on the PACKT article network and Chapter 6...

Published 11-27-2009 6:31 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Sample Chapters

Where did my xRec go?

In the RoleTailored client on a Page, the xRec does not contain a record when you are inserting new records into a sub page. Previously if you wanted to know where you had pressed F3 to insert a line you could take a look at xRec and would know which...

Published 11-02-2009 11:08 a.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Programming, Gotcha, NAV 2009 SP1

Custom Control for Reporting Services Reports

I recently presented a session at Intergen Dynamics Day called Dynamics NAV 2009 – a “deep dive” in which I showed a custom control that displayed a Graph depicting the Aged Debt for a customer. In this post, I’ll tell you a little...

Published 10-19-2009 10:52 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: .NET, NAV 2009 SP1, Custom Controls

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 VPC

A new virtual PC image is available for Partners to download. A PartnerSource login is required to use the download link page . I must admit that I had missed this one becoming available and am only just downloading it now. Apparently there are some new...

Published 09-29-2009 9:49 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: NAV 2009 SP1

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