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Preface Recently I had the honor to give a Hands On workshop on Client Extensibility for Dynamics NAV 2013 at the Airlift event in Leipzig / Germany. I thought I create a new workshop with a new AddIn - A Bing Map showing a customer on a map, including...

Find here some downloads from the Blog Posts collected in one spot. Dynamics NAV 2013 - Bing Map Integration Workshop: Step by Step Presentation: Download here (partly in German) Dynamics NAV 2013 - Bing Map Integration...

I am glad to announce the availability of the Lync AddIn, and even in source code! This is actually a good sample for an AddIn that has integrates nicely with other fields on a page, yet provides a very custom functionality and rendering. Originally...

Just a quick note: I have updated the templates for Visual Studio that help you to create the skeleton code for Add-Ins with a view clicks. Now you can also use Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 . Visual Studio 2012 is supported by this same template installation...

Introduction Add-Ins in NAV 2009 where all about data binding a custom visual component through the Source Expression of the field  to a data source – a variable on a page or a field in a table. Data for a an add-in would be transferred when the...

  With NAV 2009 R2 The ControlAddIn event had been introduced. An Add-In can raise this event and the C/AL OnControlAddIn trigger will be called. When you use the Add-In templates for Visual Studio and create an Add-In that supports this event you...

Introduction With the arrival of Dynamics NAV 2013 later this year we will introduce a few improvements on our Client Add-In story which we believe will be a great productivity improvement for partners who are in the business of creating and shipping...

Dynamics NAV 2013 appears at the horizon. Selected partners have received already many builds and a Beta has been released to partners . There are going to be some really powerful new capabilities available in NAV 2013, which I will blog about in the...

Just have released a new improved release of the Timeline visualization for DynamicsNAV 2009 R2 on Partner Source and Customer Source ! It is already a while ago since Microsoft DynamicsNAV R2 has shipped . On the DVD image there two Business Data...

If you are attending Directions EMEA 2011 in Berlin and you want to try out creating some cool Add-ins for the RoleTailored client, then you should certainly join the Hands On Lab TRN3 on Wednesday afternoon about Add-ins for the RoleTailored client!...

When Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 had been released with the possibility to host your own client controls in the metadata driven UI of the RoleTailored client, I heard the need from partner for tools that help with the firsts steps to create such an Add-in....

Two new command line parameters have been introduced for the RoleTailored client of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 as a hotfix ( KB 2312984 ). They enable a number of new usage scenarios for the RoleTailored client. Samples for those scenarios are...

I have heard this a number of times: "How do I show Bitmaps in a RTC Repeater?" This seems not to work – so can you please make Add-ins work in the Repeater too (so we can make a Picture Add-in for the repeater)? Therefore I'd like to post a clarification...

Christmas is near and I am proud to have a colorful present for the Dynamics NAV community. The “Treemap Business Data Visualization for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 – Partner Community Edition” is available for download here on...

This morning I have arrived back from Directions 2009 in Austin, Texas. Directions was a fantastic conference with a great setup at a incredibly beautiful location. The program was packed with great sessions and I had lots of networking and feedback from...

Yesterday afternoon, a colleague from Italy send me an IM asking for help on a customer scenario. The customer wants his users to see a strong warning sign attached to the item availability in the Item FactBox. The warning shall only be shown if the availability...

A Virtual PC image of Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 is available for partners on Microsoft Partner Source! This image is already loaded with a number of cool Add-ins. Dynamics NAV Partners: Go get it , and check it out! Christian Abeln Senior Program...

Recently I was giving a presentation about Client Add-ins and it turned out that the audience had already seen all available material about Add-ins. So what could I show instead? Live programming of a new Add-in was what I came up with. The Add-in should...

Yesterday I have recorded a “Hot Topic” on Client Extensibility and the creation of Add-Ins. Feel free to review the content here : https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?publisher=12&delivery=269574 Now after Dynamics NAV 20009...

Update (11. Aug 2010): Updated registration tool for Add-ins libraries that reside in other directories than the RTC Add-ins folder. (You must install this into the directory of the RoleTailored client !!!) (Please note: “ Add-ins ” are...

(updated: Sample project download : Sept 09) (updated to SP1 CTP2 and release API: 07.June09) Extensibility for the RoleTailored client also called “ Add-ins ”, is the feature which I personally love most in our SP1 release of Microsoft DynamicsNav...

Directions EMEA last week was fantastic! A big thanks to the organizers!!! I had the great pleasure to present some new features in Dynamics NAV 2009. Now we all wait for the official Statement of Directions , until we can share the details in a public...

For a while now I wanted to start blogging about Dynamics NAV technical topics and by that hopefully help our great community around Dynamics NAV to be even more successful. A number of new and improved features are usually appearing in every software...