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NAV 2009 – Report Designer – Introduction to the new environment 

Microsoft Dynamics NAV has always had its own report designer. In NAV 2009 it still does, but in addition to this you can also use the Visual Studio (VS) report designer. NAV 2009 – both the classic and the new client – will still run reports designed in NAV’s report designer.
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Basic SQL – Creating users in NAV on SQL 

This post is part of “Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants”. Before you can set up a user in Microsoft Dynamics NAV on SQL Server, you must create the user on SQL Server first.
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Basic SQL – How to create a new NAV database for restoring a NAV backup 

This post is part of “Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants”. This post describes the steps needed to create a new NAV database from a NAV backup (.fbk) file. All the steps are done from a NAV client: 1)     Start a NAV client (finsql.exe), then go to File -> Database -> New.
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Basic SQL – Enable trace flag 4616 on SQL Server 

This post is part of “Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants”. The newest versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV require trace flag 4616 to be enabled on SQL Server.
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Basic SQL – Creating Extended Stored Procedure / xp_ndo.dll 

This post is part of “Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants”. Microsoft Dynamics NAV requires two extended stored procedures from xp_ndo.dll to exist on SQL Server if Windows logins are used.
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Debugging in NAV 2009 

UPDATE 25 August 2010! You cannot use the Express version of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to debug Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. UPDATE: Debugging is not available in the Marketing Beta, so if you have access to a later build you can try this out. If not you will have to wait for RTM.
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NAV 2009 – Where is the zup file? 

In previous versions, all local client settings are stored in the .zup file. In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, this is a bit more complex. This post tries to describe which settings are stored where. In addition to that, with NAV 2009 you may be spending a lot of time looking for files with long folder-names.
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NAV 2009 – How to publish a web service 

This posts only describes how you can publish a web service in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (which is easy enough), and how you can see what you published. It does not describe how you can actually use this web service. Future posts will describe this.
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NAV 2009 – How to – Simple Form Transformation 

This post describes the simplest possible way to transform a form into a page in NAV 2009. Both Pages and Transformation is documented in more details elsewhere. Here, I just want to make the simples possible example, just to get a simple form transformed into a simple page.
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NAS Tutorial 

This post is based on KB article 861762 which was previously published on PartnerSource. This post is an updated version, and available to a wider audience (no PartnerSource login required). It describes the basics of what Navision Application Server (NAS) does, and an example of how to build a NAS application in less than 30 minutes.
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Beginners guide: How connect to NAV from a .net project, using C/Front 

Introduction:  This post describes the simplest possible way to get started with creating a .net project in Microsoft Visual Studio, and use C/Front in c# code to connecct to a Microsoft Dynamics NAV database. The example here is based on the sample from the product CD, which will install to this folder: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\SDK\CFRONT\DotNetSampleApplication.