Kriki’s Dynamics NAV blog

As you all (probably already) know, Mark published a book on Dynamics NAV.
I haven’t been able to start reading it directly because I have had little time because of a move (well for the moment we just cleared a part of the house…). But finally I can start reading it.
Knowing Mark personally and his work […]

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I think this is one of the most interesting sessions for developers.What is it about? Well, we always had the problem to get some info about the C/AL objects. We have some system tables to get some info like tables “Field”, “Key”, “Object”, but they give limited info on the object. To know more, we […]

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Waldo already wrote a blogpost on this : http://dynamicsuser.net/blogs/waldo/archive/2010/05/21/directions-emea-2010-testing-your-functionality.aspx. But don’t worry, I’ll give some more info.
*agenda
-test features in NAV2009SP1 -test development?
-application test toolset for NAV. Build by Microsoft on top of test features.
*NAV2009SP1 test features
-target functional test through C/AL
-ensure no UI interaction is required
-classic vs RTC (test both)
-enable test of error handling
*Now codeunits have […]

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Targetted to bring parters and customers together, Convergence EMEA is died and been replaced with smaller events inEurope.
Targetted to partners and partners together, Directions EMEA is still alive and kicking!
There was the Mibuso Conference to bring the forum users together with tech sessions and some fun!
But now the Mibuso Conference has evolved into the NAV […]

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What I remember of the keynote (The reason I make notes is that after 1 hour I don’t remember it anymore [The reason I also always have my identity card with me!]).
Eh, what was I writing? Oh, yes, After 2 times 2008 R2 (Windows and SQL Server), now we also have a 2009 R2 (Dynamics […]

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Everyone (at least, I think so) knows that you can use ‘t’ (or ‘w’ for workdate) in a datefield to get the current system date.
Not everyone knows that you can use ‘t’ in a time field to get the system time.
But do you know you can use ‘t t’ to get the current system date […]

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Remember my function DosShell (http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12417)?
 
I created  it to avoid the annoying popup in version 4.0 asking confirmation to run a program.
 
But I just found out that it can also be used to activate a program that is already active.
 
How to do it?
 
Very easy. You can play with the parameter “IintWindowStyle”. If you use value “1″, […]

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What is this for?
In (very) short: it is to detect badly written pages on the disk and until SQL2000 it was the best there is and you needed it in case your clustersize on disk was NOT 64KB and all nicely offsetted (well, this is another story).
In SQL2008 you can find it in database properties=>Options=>Recovery=>Page […]

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How much times we have the question on the forum to downgrade a DB after someone accidently opened a DB with a newer NAV version and upgraded the DB?
 
Lot’s of times.
 
Downgrading is not so easy and it can be slow.
 
I needed to do it some time ago (luckily NOT for production but just for some […]

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Do you remember the Clustered Index bug of 4.0SP1 (see also http://www.mibuso.com/dlinfo.asp?FileID=594)?
In short: 4.0SP1 forgot to set the index-property “Clustered” on the primary key (the default is that the primary key is clustered). The result is that the tables were heap-tables and that is (generally) bad for performance.
The fix was to put the key-property Clustered […]

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