Because SP1 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 was released, I tried to create short demo of the new functionality, which allows developers to create tests for their code. Official documentation for this part of NAV 2009 SP1 could be found here .   How it works You have new property on codeunit – Subtype – which could be “Normal,Test,TestRunner”. Normal – you know it… ;-) Test – this codeunit have functions, which are testing the functionality, this is the main codeunit doing the testing TestRunner

I made decision and the source code for my application is now public. You can freely extend/update the code through GIT tools. The project is available on this address: git://github.com/kine/NAV_NST_Management.git I hope that this application will grow into superb tool for administering the NST services and may be not only the NSTs.

During the MiBuSo conference 2009 in Mechelen we had one presentation, where all attendees could see the future of NAV development environment, which will replace the C/Side from classic client. For others, which are not there, I have some pictures I made with my mobile (sorry for the poor quality). We will see if the presentation will be for download, than you will have high-quality screenshots... :-) I hope that you will enjoy what you will see.   Table designer example: All is done through

Hello all, today I am glad that I can introduce you my new application, which is focused on management of NAV 2009 service tier and WebService. In last few days I learned much about C# and managing services, reading and modifying XML files etc. Result is the application named "NAV 2009 NST Management". What you can do with this application? Start/Stop the NAV services Create new instances of the services Configure the services (change DB server, DB name, and enable/disable debugging on

Today I prepared some stats about network traffic in NAV 2009 RTC client. You can compare the results with C/Side client (classic client). Measuring: for measuring I have used the Microsoft Network Monitor for catching the NAV communication between client and DB Server/Service tier. Than I create sum of Frame Length, TCP Payload length and count of frames for the communication for each process. The results are not exact, because there are many things I didn’t take into account (cold/warm buffers

Hello all I am happy that after long time of silence I can post this article about NAV 2009. I want to show you what is new in this version from Developer's point of view. Let's make it short: Technology Of course, everybody knows that NAV 2009 is 3-tier system, where you have DB Server (MS SQL 2005/2008), Service tier (processing data) and the Client tier ( RoleTailored Dynamics Client - RTC ). But many people think, that NAV 2009 client is "tiny" client. But this is not true.

Yes, it is true, NAV have syntax highlighting now! What a miracle! My live is much more bright now! What to say? No comment... :-) What is your comment on this? Be redy for more NAV 2009 articles, because now, NDA over NAV 2009 is gone...

Today I made some statistics about NAV 2009 CTP4 tables and compared the result with the stats for NAV 5.00SP1. There are the tables: Tab 1) Field relations by type: Relation Type Count (5.00SP1) Count (NAV 2009) Difference AVERAGE 5 5 0% COUNT 109 193 +77% EXIST 135 135 0% LOOKUP 291 294 +1% MAX 9 9 0% MIN 14 14 0% SUM 415 415 0% -SUM 70 70 0% TABLEREL 5468 5497 <1% -EXIST 1 1 0% Grand Total 6517 6633 +1.7% You can notice, that the biggest difference is in COUNT flowfields. It is mainly because

Today I made some statistics about NAV 5.00SP1 tables. I know that the stats have no purpose, but you can see on them how complex the system is. It can help to someone, who just want to know, how much is something used in standard etc. There are the tables: Tab 1) Field relations by type: Relation Type Count AVERAGE 5 COUNT 109 EXIST 135 LOOKUP 291 MAX 9 MIN 14 SUM 415 -SUM 70 TABLEREL 5468 -EXIST 1 Grand Total 6517 A you can see, there is 6517 relations between fields (TableRel, SUM, Lookup etc