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A number of people have asked for guidance on how to transfer data to/from COM and WebServices in NAV 2009. In the following I will go through how to get and set a picture on an item in NAV through a Web Service Connection. During this scenario we will...

If you haven't read part 3 , part 2 (and part 1 ), you should do so before continuing here. We have seen how to put code inside Excel, using VSTO and connect to NAV 2009 Web Services. We have seen how to add this to a table inside Excel and how to write...

The title might be a bit misleading, but I am writing this post as a response to a problem, which a partner ran into with NAV 2009 - and the problem is caused by Unicode. I am not a Unicode expert, so bare with me if I am naming some things wrong. As...

In the developer help for NAV 2009 (nav_adg.chm), there is a description for creating and running Hyperlinks - I will not try to repeat all the information in the documentation - so please read the documentation before reading this post. There are however...

For the last 6-9 months, Microsoft have been showing a demo of how a user could create a filter on a list place and invoke an action called Edit In Excel. This would open Microsoft Excel with the same records, the user selected in the List Place and allow...

If you have been working with the Role Tailored Client you are probably aware, that it doesn't support PageUp and PageDown in Task Pages. The reason for removing this support was, that the new User Experience is centered around starting from the List...

During the partner keynote and during a couple of the other presentations, we showed a small application, which was able to search in NAV 2009 through multiple tables, display a result set and allow people to drill into task pages in NAV 2009 from the...

Solid State Drives are here. Laptops are sold with SSD's (a bit expensive) and also the server market is seeing SSD's coming out promising incredible performance from your storage. But what does this mean for NAV? I contacted FusionIO ( www.fusionio.com...

If you haven't read part 2 and part 1 of the Search in NAV 2009 posts, you should do so before continuing. This is the 3rd and final part of the Search in NAV 2009 post. In this section I will show how to create a Windows Vista Gadget and have this gadget...

If you haven't read part 1 of the Search in NAV 2009, you should do so before continuing. In this section we will create a small Winforms application, which uses the Web Service we just created in part 1. Our application will be visible as a System Tray...

If you haven't read Part 1 , you should do so before continuing here. In Part 1 we saw how easy it is to white .net code inside Excel, and get it executed based on an event in Excel, and how easy it is to fill values into cells. But in order to make this...

If you haven't read part 2 (and part 1 ), you should do so before continuing here. In Part 1 and 2, we have seen how easy it is to add a Web Service Reference inside Excel, and use it to get Data. In Part 2 we even had the ability to modify data and send...

Wednesday this week we officially launched Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 at Convergence EMEA - what a relief. We have been working hard on this release for a long time and although you always know what you would have made better when you launch a product...