Introduction

Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides a software developer with a variety of options for extending application functionality via .NET assemblies, COM components, and many other tools. Extension possibilities covered so far in this book gave you a way to enrich NAV functional capabilities, but they did not allow you to modify UI elements.

This chapter will walk the reader through creating a custom user interface extension that can be embedded in native NAV pages and make data presentation highly customizable. We will see how to use the NAV UI Extensibility Framework to create WinForms controls compatible with the NAV user interface. A separate recipe is dedicated to developing control elements in JavaScript language. Client controls based on the UI Extensibility Framework are developed in .NET languages and run in the .NET environment, which limits their application to NAV Windows clients only. JavaScript controls follow the Dynamics NAV Universal App concept and can be used on any...