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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

You're reading from   Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook Extend Dynamics NAV 2016 to win the business world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460608
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Writing Basic C/AL Code FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced C/AL Development 3. Reporting and Data Analysis 4. .NET Interoperability in C/AL 5. Extending C/AL with COM Components 6. SharePoint Integration 7. Control Add-ins 8. Web Services 9. Events and Extension Packages 10. PowerShell

Working with .NET strings and arrays in C/AL


The .NET datatype in C/AL enables developers to use .NET strings and dynamics arrays in client application code. While the Syste.String datatype is compatible with NAV Text type, .NET arrays cannot be directly converted to NAV arrays.

In the following example, we will see how to efficiently use these datatypes in your code.

How to do it...

Objects developed in the walk-through get stock exchange data from the Yahoo Finance website and present the result in a table. Stock indicators are published in CSV format - a list of comma-separated strings, each containing a dataset related to a separate index.

  1. First of all, let's create a table where the data received from the stock information provider will be stored. Open Table Designer in C/SIDE and create a table.

  2. Create the table fields as shown in the following table:

    Field No.

    Field Name

    Data Type

    Length

    1

    Symbol

    Code

    10

    2

    Trade Date

    Date

    3

    Name

    Text

    100

    4

    Change

    Text

    30

    5

    ...
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