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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

Understanding static classes and methods

All DotNet variables used in the previous recipe had to be instantiated before they could be used, which means that methods called on such variables are executed on a particular instance of that class. Static methods belong to the class itself and can be called without instantiating the variable.

The whole class can be declared as static. In this case, the class does not implement any constructor and all its methods have to be also static. An example of a static class is File--a .NET class encapsulating file operations.

A non-static class can implement both instance and static methods. RegEx is an example of a class that has both static and instance methods. RegEx is a .NET implementation of regular expressions.

How to do it...

In the following recipe, we will see how to use static classes to search for patterns in text lines with regular expressions and save the results in a file.

  1. Create a worksheet page in the C/SIDE page designer, select the Item...
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