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Happy new year everyone! Last year was a bit slow for me, until the very end, when I churned out a year’s worth of posts just in two days. I hope this year to be a bit different, and let me kick-start it with a concept I’ve been playing with recently.

Over the course of creating my videos, I have created a number of demos, and massive amount of code (well, massive in relation to the duration of videos). So, with Microsoft’s agreement, I have published all of the demonstrated C# and PowerShell code to my GitHub repository.

Over the past month or so I was very busy with the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Managed Service for Partners . One part was in line of my work, where we were busy around the clock bringing our solution to Managed Service. The other part was creating a handful of videos for Microsoft to promote Managed Service.

A few days ago I have published my PowerShell script that streamlines and automates deployment of control add-ins from Visual Studio. Over the past couple of days I have improved it a little bit, and fixed a few bugs, so here’s an updated version that is more resilient to your project structure,…

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 brings many new features, one of which is a set of PowerShell cmdlets to manage add-ins. These are: New-NAVAddIn Get-NAVAddIn Set-NAVAddIn Remove-NAVAddIn While these cmdlets are certainly useful for installation and deployment, I find them even more useful during development.

In most of my JavaScript client extensibility demos, I develop the whole content of my resource ZIP files inside Visual Studio. When I press F6, magically my NAV gets updated with the latest version of JavaScript that I just wrote. So, how do I do that? Here’s the cookbook.

Some NAV PowerShell cmdlets (such as Import-NAVApplicationObject ) don’t have the -Force switch, and always ask for confirmation regardless of whether you include the -Confirm switch or not. To work around this, append the – Confirm:$false switch to such command.

This post is well overdue, I admit it. I have demonstrated so many times so far how to create an Azure VM instance running Microsoft Dynamics NAV through a PowerShell script running on your PC, and it’s just about time to share this script and the theory behind it with the world.