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Up to now we in Advania have been using the method described here on my blog to connect to most of the Soap web services that we needed to integrate with. The problem with this method is that we have to manage a lot of DLLs. This has caused some issues and problems. Another thing …
I am currently working on a solution that requires a Dynamics NAV client to communicate with Dynamics NAV web service. This I have done before with the classic client and have used automation objects for the job. Now I wanted to do this with dotnet only objects in the Role Tailored Client. Took some time …
Soap Web Services return XML with name spaces. You need to remove the name spaces before you can use XMLPort to read the answer. Microsoft has supplied a solution to this problem by applying Stylesheet to the XML before it is read by the XMLPort. I added to that Stylesheet a few lines to remove …
Microsoft supports Side-by-Side development for C/AL and AL. To start using the Side-by-Side development make sure you have the latest version of AdvaniaGIT add-in for Visual Studio Code and update the PowerShell scripts by using the “Advania: Go!” command. When the Business Central environment is built use the “Advania: Build C/AL Symbol References for AL” to …
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A new operating system from Microsoft sure has it’s impact on our ecosystem. Our Microsoft Dynamics NAV is based on top of Microsoft operating systems. With the power of SOAP and OData services in Microsoft Dynamics NAV everyone is now able to design a custom user interface dedicated for a simple task, both for employees …
I have been using SOAP services over the last years. Only recently the RESTful web services have become more and more popular in my integration work. Wikipedia says: In computing, Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architecture style for building scalable web services. REST gives a coordinated set of constraints to the design of components …
I just got a question from a client; Gunnar, Do you have a “King Kong” license that will allow you to delete any object? It appears our development license does not have the rights to some of the newer LS Retail objects and I need to create a CRONUS database with just our stuff. Well, …
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Open Data Protocol (OData) is a data access protocol initially defined by Microsoft. In NAV 2013 Microsoft first added a support for OData. On the Developer Network Microsoft has a few walk-throughs aimed to get us started in using both SOAP and OData web services. To get started with OData first make sure that the …
A new feature in NAV 2013 R2 allows companies to store links to incoming documents and reference them in Purchase Invoices and Journal Lines. There is a video in the How Do I series on Managing Incoming Documents in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2. I wanted to add a functionality to scan and store the …
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In my earlier posts I showed how to create the databases and how to install Dynamics NAV on the server machines. The next step is to create an instance for every application and mount the default tenant. The default tenant is the only one that will be able to change the application data. To finish this …
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