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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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Alexander Drogin Alexander Drogin
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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

Introduction

The concept of events has been introduced in NAV 2016 to simplify the customization of system functionality and isolate custom modifications in the code and the data model from the NAV application. Keeping custom modifications apart from the base application helps developers to reduce maintenance cost and simplify the upgrade process.

Event processing includes two steps. First, an event is raised by an event publisher object. Event subscribers, bound to the corresponding event, receive a notification, and execute event processing code. Different types of application events will be discussed in the beginning of the chapter. The first recipes show how custom objects subscribe to events raised by the application business login, or by the NAV platform.

In the Creating custom events recipe, you will learn how to raise a custom event that can be handled by other event subscribers.

The practical application of events is further developed in recipes dedicated to NAV extension packages...

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