Value of upgrading solutions to NAV2009 by Andreas Vos

*customers
-productivity: RTC, action pane, search function (users love this ; there is a search function in Windows 2008/7 and I love that to instead of using the menu), user customization, save template with filters
-technology: SQL Server, WebServices, client extensibility
-time to “clean up”:
–51% replace with standard
–13% in use
–8% need to change
–28% unknown (user: I need that […]

How to improve the testing of your solutions (application testing) by Soren Grubov

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 […]

Fill code-field without typing complete value

A little trick for all codefields on which there is a tablerelation to a table (Customer No., Vendor No., Items No.,…).
You can always use F6 to select the value you want but there is a shortcut:
For example: you have all your customers coded by “C000001″..”C999999″ and you know the code of the customer (e.g. “C000013″, […]

Hands on lab, Nav 2009: Upgrading and Transformation by Olga Mulvad, Brett Johnson

This is the first time (ok, this is the second year Directions EMEA is organized) they organized a ’serial’ session that is continued after the pause.
 
There were quite a lot of people and most haven’t really worked with the transformation tool (neither did I ). If the session took 3 session-hours, it would have […]

Upgrading database from 5.0 to NAV 2009/Merging NAV 2009 by Per Mogensen

General code changes in W1

New page objects
979000 lines of code in 50SP1 and 2421000 lines of code in NAV2009
325000 lines of code generated by transformations of forms
General properties and triggers added
3500 objects in 5.0SP1 and […]

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