Monthly Archives: October 2010

Today we announced the Visual Studio Async CTP, which shows one of the major features we plan to include in a future release of C# and Visual Basic. This feature makes development of asynchronous applications–which include everything from desktop appl…

The greatest development platform in the world meets the greatest set of functional libraries, types, methods, and properties as Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 allows developers to take advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework! With NAV 2009 R2, you c…

I used phpMyAdmin for a dog’s age before using MySQL Workbench on a regular basis. While MySQL Workbench on Windows 7 is much heavier (and slower) than the super-slim Adminer, it provides a number of features that make creating and maintaining schemas in MySQL easier – including the ability to print out a visual depiction [...]

There’s a neat little framework for Ruby called Sinatra that makes it simple to configure REST-style API endpoints with just a smidgen of glue code. But why, asked PHP developer Josh Lockhart, should Ruby devs have all the fun? Josh has been busy these past few months creating his own PHP-based REST DSL (Domain-Specific Language) [...]

When you work with lists, you often need to filter them and work with a subset, like customers from Germany or items in Blue location. After you create filters on a list, you can save the filtered list. This is especially useful if you have several fil…

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 in new Role Tailored Client we have new feature – we can show lists in “tree view”. We can expand/collapse nodes and make lists more interesting and more visual.
However this new feature isn&rsqu…

Just a few points about running classic reports from RTC, based on common support scenarios:
RUNMODAL (Not possible)
RTC runs classic reports (reports with no RDL Layout) by starting the report engine from a classic client. However, RTC is not able to …

With the release of NAV 2009 R2, we have endeavoured to prioritise features that many customers and partners have requested and this includes the ability to integrate NAV with CRM.
The approach we have chosen to provide integration between NAV and CRM …

The iPad is currently a major hit with gamers, the top 20 applications downloaded over 60% are games. Becoming an iPad game developer could be a start to a successful career, however you need to ensure you have the following to succeed. Buy a Mac: Apple’s development technology only runs on their Laptops/Desktop computers, so [...]

I was recently on-site at a large Dynamics NAV customer attempting to help them get through a number of significant performance issues they encountered on their two previous failed attempts to upgrade from NAV 3.70 to NAV 5.00 SP1. In summary, the…