#dynamics nav development tools

Microsoft has introduced New NAV Development Tools. These help build extensions and apps in and for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

 The first one is the In-Client Designer with an appropriate screenshot given below.

This development tool in Microsoft Dynamics Navision helps make an extension in the client itself. Business consultants and UX designers will have the time of their lives working on this drag and drop interface. They will be enabled to rearrange fields, rename groups and reposition elements. All this, in order to build the ideal extension which supports an industry-specific solution and does its bit to endorse business process optimization.

 The other one is Visual Studio Code. A snapshot of the same, has again been given below:

Visual Studio Code

This development tool in the premier ERP Software for Small Business enterprises facilitates use of the AL Extension, which helps build powerful extensions based on tables, pages and code units with the help of new objects such as Page Extensions and Table Extensions. End users get to build rich extensions which can be reused. They also get to extend core business logic in their applications.

 Both of these tools in the premier enterprise resource planning solution for small business enterprises are available in Azure VM. Hence, there is a need to create a New VM in Azure. Microsoft has already created a deployment template for end users, a snapshot of which has been given below. As it happens, once that deployment template has been created, the blanks have to be simply filled up and after that VM will automatically be deployed.

The entire process has been bifurcated in steps.

1. Create Azure Subscription: In case the end user does not have an Azure account, then a free account can be tried out. A new free subscription can be created on  https://azure.microsoft.com/free/.

2. Deploy Azure VM: All that the end user has to do is click on the below link, which will redirect him/her to the custom development template on Azure. Doing this will prompt the end user to enter his Azure Subscription login credentials. The link would be http://aka.ms/navdeveloperpreview.

The moment the deployment process is complete, it will halt for 10-15 minutes before the Virtual Machine is initialized and VS Code gets installed and configured.

Connecting to the Virtual Machine: The Virtual Machine has to be selected (Server 1), a screenshot of which has been shown below and the screen below it shows that the next thing to do is simply click on “Connect”. The moment this gets done, the download of the “Remote Desktop Connection” begins.

The “vmadmin” password has to be entered to connect to the Virtual Machine.

Once this has been done, then the desktop icons visible below will help you to open the Web Client of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and also that of Visual Studio Code.