Category: Development

October 14th, 2009 .NET, Development, Navision, Random Post 2 Comments »

RSS Reader Add-In for the RoleTailored Client

Add-Ins are used to add new features to the RoleTailored Client and was introduced with NAV 2009 SP1.

I have previous written about a ASP.NET RSS reader – in that article, the collection of feeds was a C# function, so why not use this function to extend the RoleTailored Client.

I will be using Visual Studio 2008 to write a Dynamic Link Library (dll), but you can also use the free Express version of Visual C#.

Let’s start by creating a new project – a class library. I have chosen to call it naviRSS.
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October 13th, 2009 .NET, Development, Random Post No Comments »

Building a RSS reader in ASP.Net

Hi

RSS Feeds are just XMLs – so building a RSS reader is not so difficult, first you know how to do it ;-)

Let’s start with looking at C# function that reads the RSS Feeds.

First step is to collect the feeds. This is done by using WebRequest:

System.Net.WebRequest myRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(rssURL);

System.Net.WebResponse myResponse = myRequest.GetResponse();

 
System.IO.Stream rssStream = myResponse.GetResponseStream();

System.Xml.XmlDocument rssDoc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();

rssDoc.Load(rssStream);

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 June 11th, 2009  Development, Random Post, SQL  No Comments » 
How to transfer user logins between to SQL Servers


						

                            							

								
Hi !


If you are installing a new SQL Server and would like to transfer the logins from an old SQL Server, without doing a SQL restore, then you can do it with a script.


Take a look on this article How to transfer logins and passwords between instances of SQL Server; here Microsoft describes how to do it. Read more »

						

						


				
 June 1st, 2009  Development, Navision, Random Post, XML  No Comments » 
XMLports – What are they and how to use them


						

                            							

								
XMLports was introduced with Navision 4.0 – they act like dataports, with a small difference. They can only be used for XML-formatted data and they must by executed from some other routine.


In the XMLport designer – you set up a defined format. Just think of it, as a kind of schema (xsd). You can add Elements and Attributes and in the Properties you can setup the Encoding and the DefaultNamespace. Read more »

						

						


				
 March 19th, 2009  .NET, Automations, Development, Random Post  No Comments » 
Expanding the FTP automation


						

                            							

								
In the previous post I have started the development of FTP automation. The first post did only include some basic functions such as download, upload and list. Now it’s time for some more functionality.


So now let us add the possibility to delete and rename files.


Deleting a file from the FTP server is actually pretty simple. All you have to know is the filename and where it is place. Once you have this information you can use the WebRequestMethods to delete the file.

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 December 15th, 2008  .NET, Automations, Development, Navision, Random Post  6 Comments » 
Writing a FTP automation


						

                            							

								
Over some time I have been using a plain dos ftp from Navision. There is some advantages and some disadvantage combined with it. 


A advantage is, that this use does not require any third part products; but a disadvantage is that you does not have the fully control over the file transfer, so you have to build your own kind of file log and parsing it to know if everything went well.


Therefor I decided to build my own automation for Navision in c#.


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