Interop
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Three Whys about .NET Interoperability
Once upon a time, a smart bloke named Saikichi Toyoda came up with a 5 Whys troubleshooting technique. It postulates that you only need to ask “why” five times…
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Detecting current object type and ID using some funky .NET Interop
Did you ever need to identify the current object type and ID, programmatically, from within the object? For example, detecting the current table ID in a table…
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Detect file encoding in C/AL using .NET Interop
When importing files using XMLports, and especially when handling text files, file encoding is important. If the XMLport expects ASCII, and you feed it UTF-8,…
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A .NET Interoperability Lesson: Mapping indexed properties to C/AL
Indexed properties are commonly used in C# because they allow a lot of syntactical flexibility, and make the code more readable, and easier to follow. Indexed…
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Tip: Interacting with the actual .NET Control Add-in controls
The control add-in framework in NAV 2013 is great, because apart from allowing you to put a custom Windows Forms control on the page, it also allows you to…
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.NET Tips & Tricks: Mediator Pattern (on steroids)
When I was writing my last post I had a distinct feeling that I was trampling over some boundaries of good NAV design. After all, you should not do stuff like…
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Excel Interoperability Woes in NAV 2013
Handling Excel files in NAV 2013 (including R2) is not as easy as it seems at first. The Excel Buffer table – an obvious choice of the old days – supports only…
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NAV TechDays 2013 in Antwerp Wrap Up
Another NAV TechDays is over, and again, needless to say, it was a splendid conference. Thanks to everybody who attended one of my sessions about .NET…
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Long time no see, Vienna, Nashville, demo gods, and other things
Oh my. Has it really been *THAT* long? Obviously, yes. Some folks have asked me if I stopped blogging. No, I did not. I just took a way long break from it…
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Top 10 things I miss in .NET Interoperability in NAV 2013
If you ask me what the top addition to the NAV technology stack over the past few years is – it’s .NET interoperability. A lot of folks, maybe you as well,…