Learning Dynamics Nav Patterns [Paperback]

Create solutions that are easy to maintain, quick to upgrade, and follow proven concepts and designs

About This Book

• Design software that is maintainable outside the ecosystem of their creators
• Ensure quality by following patterns that have been proved to work
• Over two dozen practical Architectural and Design patterns

Who This Book Is For

Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns is intended for developers, architects, (technical) consultants, and application managers. You may have very little or no knowledge about NAV patterns, but you should be acquainted with programming.

What You Will Learn

• Apply object-oriented practices to C/AL programming
• Structure your application to avoid merge conflicts
• Refactor legacy code and avoid anti-patterns
• Design decision trees to decide when to use which patterns
• Clone codes and their application in Dynamics NAV
• Make your application extensible by creating predefined hooks and facades

In Detail

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a complete ERP system, which also contains a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These include an object designer for each of the seven application object types, a business application oriented programming language with .NET interface capability, a compiler, a debugger, and programming testing language support.

Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns will guide you through the NAV way of solving problems. This book will first introduce you to patterns and the software architecture of the NAV and then help you to build an example application. Then, it walks you through the details of architectural patterns, design patterns, and implementation patterns. This book will also talk about anti-patterns and handling legacy code. Finally, it teaches you to build solutions using patterns.

Proven patterns and best practices will help you create better soll„