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Friday, May 30, 2008 10:05 AM

Release of Upgrade Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1

I am pleased to announce the release of Upgrade toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1. This update is now available for the first countries and it’s ready for you to download from Partner Source. Login credentials are required. https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/downloads/releases/MicrosoftDynamicsNAV50SP1.htm
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:02 AM

NAV and the .Net Garbage Collector

Many NAV solutions, including internal ones, have the necessity to use .Net as a supplement of NAV technology, in order to complete their logic; however, dealing with managed and unmanaged world takes some extra challenges, especially when the managed
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Friday, May 23, 2008 12:30 PM

Microsoft Dynamics NAV team members visit the Netherlands and Belgium

Last month (23 rd – 25 th April), Claus Lundstrøm and I took to the road and drove all the way from Vedbæk to Netherlands and Belgium to meet one of our would-be TAP Partners and attend the launch of Belgian Dynamics Community respectively. The camaraderie
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:56 AM

What is the cost of maintaining an indexed view?

In previous versions, Microsoft Dynamics NAV maintains SIFT totals in SIFT tables. So updating the main table is done in one query. Updating the related SIFT tables is done by seperate queries run from triggers on the SQL tables. This makes it difficult
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:53 AM

Dynamics NAV 5.0 and Style Sheet issues, issue with '/' character in customer(vendor) name

When running forms like Customer (Vendor) Ledger Entries and Apply Customer(Vendor) Ledger Entries, and selecting: send-to Excel, the following error occurs if customer (vendor) name contains character '/': Problems came up in the following areas during
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Friday, May 16, 2008 10:51 AM

New way to initialise C/Front with VB in Sp1 (undocumented change)

In C/Front for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Version 5 SP1, it is no longer possible to initialise it in the usual way from Visual Basic. Often you would initialise C/Front like this: Dim CFR As Microsoft.Navision.CFront.CFrontDotNet CFR = New Microsoft.Navision.CFront.CFrontDotNet
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Friday, May 16, 2008 6:06 AM

Passion, Courage, and Enthusiasm … and Donald Duck

It's been a busy couple of months since I last posted a blog, and I have learned a ton. Back then my stated near-term goal was to learn about the team, the product, partners and customers. During that time, I've had a lot of the feedback I asked for -
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:52 AM

Index View Matching & Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1

In a recent question we were asked whether it was required to use Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise or Developer Edition to gain better performance, from the changes we have done in Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1, and the answer is
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:50 AM

Comcom and the Bus adapter

This post is the second part of the post NAS Tutorial which is based on KB article 861762, previously published on PartnerSource. This post is an updated version, and available to a wider audience (no PartnerSource login required). This post describes
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:47 AM

NAS Tutorial

This post is based on KB article 861762 which was previously published on PartnerSource. This post is an updated version, and available to a wider audience (no PartnerSource login required). It describes the basics of what Navision Application Server
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:50 AM

Changes to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 with Microsoft SQL Server

I just want to point you to the whitepaper describing the changes done for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 SQL Option: With the release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1, major changes have been made to Microsoft Dynamics NAV™ with Microsoft SQL Server.
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Monday, May 12, 2008 9:47 AM

Modern NAV/SQL troubleshooting

This post is the first in a planned series to describe various "modern" methods for troubleshooting performance problems with Microsoft Dynamics NAV on SQL Server. The idea is also to make the best out of information that already exists, either in other
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Friday, May 09, 2008 10:50 AM

E-mail logging when using Outlook 2007

When time passes by and people started to update their Office environments with the latest Office release, we immediately saw an increase of cases coming in that state that with Office 2007, E-mail logging refuse to log E-mails when using the Application
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Friday, May 09, 2008 10:44 AM

Synchronizing Tasks to Dynamics NAV 5.0 with linked contacts

It has come to my attention that in Outlook 2007 by default Contacts are not linked to Tasks. Let's assume you have a salesperson that goes onsite to a specific prospect and that he agrees to follow up. So he creates a Task in Outlook. In Outlook 2003,
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:41 AM

What exactly does COUNT count?

The command COUNT is pretty simple. But on the SQL option there are a number of different ways to count records, and each can give a different result. This is how the different ways of counting works in NAV on SQL: There are two commands you can use:
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