Tips & Tricks
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Trick: Instantiating any control in a Control Add-in
My two last blog posts tackled two aspects of working with control add-ins: making any property or method accessible to C/AL, and making any event accessible…
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Trick: Subscribing to any Control Add-in event through pure C/AL
So, it worked. I found just enough spare time to try out the crazy idea I mentioned in the last post. It’s about control add-ins and events. In the last post I…
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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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.NET Tips & Tricks: Dispatcher
There are situations when you want to exchange data between different objects in NAV, and there is no simple way to do it. One of those, that a friend stumbled…
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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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7 Sure Steps to pass the Sure Step exam
Another Sure Step course is over, this time in Århus, Denmark. I love and hate teaching this course, because it always makes me wonder why I need this, and why…
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Abusing filtering for a lightning fast posting setup
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Classic client has some features which are simply unbeatable when it comes to productivity and speed, one of them being primary-key…
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Blank by default
I love unsolvable problems. I simply do. I had one a few days ago in the office, and I solved it. So, the problem went like this. A discussion has been raised…