Overview of NAV blogs in 2008

Always read the manual first! Then search the www for what you need to know.

A lot of useful information about NAV has been published as blogs during this year. Below is a list of some of these blogs, as an attempt to make a kind of overview of useful information, and to make it easier to find what you are looking for.

This list is far from complete and apologies in advance for any useful source of information omitted below. If you use other sources to find information about NAV which you would like to share, then please do so by adding a comment to this post.

The list below links to blogs from 2008 from the following blogs on msdn:

• Nav developer's blog
• Microsoft Dynamics NAV Sustained Engineering Team Blog
• Freddys Blog
• Clausl's Dynamics NAV Blog

This list of NAV-related blogs is not complete either, there are many more blogs both on msdn and elsewhere. Add comments about other good sources of information about NAV. Share.

 

NAV 2009

Web Services

• NAV 2009 - How to publish a web service
• NAV 2009 - Sample C# project to consume a NAV web service
• Search in NAV 2009 - Part 1 (out of 3)
• Search in NAV 2009 - Part 2 (out of 3)
• Search in NAV 2009 - Part 3 (out of 3)
• Edit In Excel - Part 1 (out of 4)
• Edit In Excel - Part 2 (out of 4)
• Edit In Excel - Part 3 (out of 4)
• Edit In Excel - Part 4 (out of 4)
• Microsoft Windows Vista Gadget - My "Stuff"
• Transferring binary data to/from WebServices (and to/from COM (Automation) objects)

Pages

• Building a Role Center in 1 hour
• NAV 2009 - Simple way to view a page
• PageUp and PageDown in the Role Tailored Client
• Action and Activity Button icons in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009
• New Drop Down window in Microsoft NAV 2009 using Fields Groups
• NAV 2009 - How to - Simple Form Transformation 

Reports

• NAV 2009 - Report Designer - Introduction to the new environment
• NAV 2009 - The structure of reports in VS report designer
• Using variables and C/AL code in a report in NAV 2009

Charts

• 3D charts. Chart Generator tool II

Admin and installation

• NAV 2009 Developer Help Available on the Download Center
• Debugging in NAV 2009
• NAV 2009 - Where is the zup file?
• NAV 2009 - New one-stop Launch Portal on PartnerSource
• Creating and Running Hyperlinks
• NAV 2009 and Unicode!
• The Service Tier
• Multiple Service Tiers
• 4 BAT files for the Client Tier

  

Dynamics NAV 5

Development and integration

• NAS Tutorial
• Comcom and the Bus adapter
• Things to remember with MSMQ Busadapter
• Beginners guide: How connect to NAV from a .net project, using C/Front
• New way to initialise C/Front with VB in Sp1 (undocumented change)
• Importing and exporting NAV objects with C/Front
• Sample of how to read a simple XML document using MSXML DOM in NAV
• Sample of how to write a simple XML document using MSXML DOM in NAV 
• NAV and the .Net Garbage Collector
• The asymmetric stream
• The random events
• How to deploy multiple NAS’es in ADCS

Export to Excel / Style Sheets

• Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 and export to Excel
• Dynamics NAV 5.0 and Style Sheet issues, decimals exported as text
• Dynamics NAV 5.0 and Style Sheet issues, issue with '/' character in customer(vendor) name
• Dynamics NAV 5.0 and style sheet issues, tab captions with local characters
• Dynamics NAV 5.0 and Style Sheet issues

Employee Portal

• How to configure and make a table available on Employee Portal in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
• How to configure and make a report available on Employee Portal in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

RIM

• RIM Tool on 5.0 SP1

Outlook Integration

• Synchronizing Tasks to Dynamics NAV 5.0 with linked contacts
• E-mail logging when using Outlook 2007
• E-mail logging and how to get the QUEUE folder filled with message automatically in Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007
• Outlook Add-in does not show up in Dynamics NAV 5.0, Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 and Dynamics NAV 2009
• An error has occurred during the synchronization process
• Using web services with Outlook Synchronization in a localized environment 
• E-mail logging and The call to member Logon failed. Collaboration Data Objects returned following message: [Collaboration Data Objects - [MAPI_E_LOGON_FAILED(80040111)]]
• Tip 1: "The related item for the synchronized Outlook item is not found in the specified folders. The following values were expected"
• Tip 2: "Fixing language issues when trying to setup the Outlook Synchronization in Dynamics NAV 5.0, Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 and Dynamics NAV 2009"
• Tip 3: Using Exchange Public Folders and Outlook synchronization in Dynamics NAV 5.0, 5.0 SP1 and 2009

SQL Server

• SQL Performance (20+ blogs)
• Basic SQL
  • Basic SQL - Overview of NAV specific SQL features for application consultants
  • Basic SQL - Installing SQL Server 2005 / 2008
  • Basic SQL - Creating Extended Stored Procedure / xp_ndo.dll
  • Basic SQL - Enable trace flag 4616 on SQL Server
  • Basic SQL - How to create a new NAV database for restoring a NAV backup
  • Basic SQL - How to attach a database to SQL Server
  • Basic SQL - Creating users in NAV on SQL
  • Basic SQL - Restoring a SQL Server backup
• General SQL
  • Error - Cannot create more than one clustered index on table
  • List of released updates for SQL Server 2005 SP2
  • What exactly does COUNT count?

 

 

Lars Lohndorf-Larsen

Microsoft Dynamics UK

Microsoft Customer Service and Support (CSS) EMEA

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