Category Archives: Development

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Classic Client has been renamed to the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment. We did this not only because we like long product names but because we want to call attention to the fact …

We recently shipped the Application Test Toolset for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.
The supplement is applicable to the following country releases of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013:
W1, AU, CA, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, MX, NL, NZ, SE and US
The supplemen…

Today we can announce that the Lync Add-In is available for download in source code. This Add-In is a good sample for a nice integration with other fields on a page, yet still provides a very custom functionality and rendering.
It has been shown at rec…

Reports join different views of data in one place. You design reports in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 using the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment and Microsoft Reporting Services.
For Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, we have created report desi…

Sometimes we need to run some specific object (page, report, codeunit or xmlport) on Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Role Tailored Client. Let say we want to test report received from customer on our Cronus demo db.
The easiest way is of course to run rep…

The other day a partner asked me about how to start the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 C/AL Debugger for another NAV Server instance than the one used by C/SIDE.
The explanation is below, but first, let’s see how C/SIDE finds the NAV Server instance…

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, there are several areas that enable the user to perform analysis in Microsoft Excel. Areas such as importing and exporting budgets, analysis by dimensions, and a number of selected reports all use Excel Buffer to export data …

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, there are several areas that enable the user to perform analysis in Microsoft Excel. Areas such as importing and exporting budgets, analysis by dimensions, and a number of selected reports all use Excel Buffer to export data …

Enabling Tracing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 has a feature that allows you to see the AL call stack for a SQL commands. Here I am going to describe how it can be used to profile your application code.
There are multi…

Actually, NAV should never crash, but sometimes there are circumstances that cause a crash of one of the NAV processes or services. For the user and the administrator, it is usually not clear why a component crashes. Most of the time the application ev…