We all have seen the situation where we need to put in lot of efforts to modify the standard NAV object in order to run our custom add-on solutions with standard NAV codebase. With the frequent release of cumulative updates for NAV 2013 version onwards, maintaining and deploying the add-on solutions became further complex.So with the introduction of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016, Microsoft has introduced extensions as a new feature which enable us to modify our Microsoft Dynamics NAV system withou...

We will create Java web app in Azure App Service by using the Azure portal. The Azure portal is a web interface that we can use to manage Azure resources. Pre-requisiteWe require a Microsoft Azure Subscription. JAVA application optionsThere are several ways we can set up Java application in an App Service web app:1)    Use template from the Azure MarketplaceThe Azure Marketplace includes templates that automatically create and configure Java web apps with ...

We will create Java web app in Azure App Service by using the Azure portal. The Azure portal is a web interface that we can use to manage Azure resources. Pre-requisiteWe require a Microsoft Azure Subscription. JAVA application optionsThere are several ways we can set up Java application in an App Service web app:1)    Use template from the Azure MarketplaceThe Azure Marketplace includes templates that automatically create and configure Java web apps with ...

 OverviewWe will deploy ASP.NET web application to web apps in Azure App Service by using Visual Studio. In result, we will have simple web application up and running in cloud. Pre-requisite Visual Studio Microsoft Azure Subscription Setting up development environmentTo start, set up development environment by installing Azure SDK for Visual Studio. Creating project and web appOur first step is to create web project in Visual Studio and web app in Azure App Service. When...

Creating an Azure VM that runs Linux is easy to do. We will use ssh public key file to secure our SSH connection to VM. We can also create Linux VM’s using our own images as templates. NOTE: We will create an Azure VM which is managed by Azure resource group. Pre-requisiteWe need Azure subscription. Steps Select image1)    Log in http://portal.azure.com  2)    On the Hub menu, click New >> Compu...

How easy it is to create an Azure VM in just a few minutes. We'll use Windows Server 2012 r2 Datacentre image but that's just one of many images Azure offers.We can also create VM’s using our own images, with Resource Manager Templates or with automation tools.We will use the Resource Manager Deployment model to create VM. This is recommended instead of the classic deployment model, which is based on Service Management APIs. Pre-requisiteWe need Azure subscription. Steps ...

Since the advent of RTC clients and 3-tier architecture of Dynamics NAV, it’s been a question in the minds of thousands of NAV developers as well as end-users, that how to find out the idle time of the users connected to the service tier. There were some add-on solutions available in the market prior to the newer versions of Dynamics NAV, which people used to identify and stop idle user sessions. But, now these add-ons were no more able to do it, because the architecture changed and the wa...

I discovered something quite interesting couple of week back and I thought it was worth sharing.When you create an object type variable in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 and you leave out the name then NAV will automatically suggest the name based on the subtype. So, when creating variables that are pages, records, reports, codeunit, xmlports, etc. then there is no need to enter a variable name anymore.Here is how NAV will automatically suggest the name based of the subtype.As mentio...

There has been phenomenal growth in terms of organizations adopting Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the last couple of years, specifically last year, i.e. 2014. See the graphs showing a comparison of the number of customers using Microsoft Dynamics suite of products, including, NAV, AX, SL, GP and CRM for two consecutive years, 2013 and 2014.  * The data is used from what Microsoft declared in Convergence 2014.  Graph image source: www.erpsoftwareblog.com It shows that the gro...

Microsoft has released the preview version of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 for developers to try and provide feedback on usage or issues. .NET 4.6 preview comes with C# 6.0 which includes the new additional features expected by developers to improve the coding productivity.In this article I am going to describe the new features introduced in C# 6.0. If you haven’t download the Visual Studio 2015 please get it from below download button.Property Initialization with default valueIn C# 6.0...