In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, there are a lot of codeunits already available. Every codeunit is a collection of different functions. If they are global functions, they can be called from within your own code. There are codeunits that help you work with XML data, help you with importing and exporting data, setting up number series, and so on.
Tag Archives: Codeunit
My Soap Service Proxy Codeunit
Up to now we in Advania have been using the method described here on my blog to connect to most of the Soap web services that we needed to integrate with.
The problem with this method is that we have to manage a lot of DLLs. This has caused some issues and problems.
Day-to-day NAV: Upgrade codeunits
Starting with NAV 2015 there is an easier way to migrate data between old and new structures of NAV tables.
From msdn excerpt, the upgrade codeunits role is to provide “the logic for migrating existing data in the business data table from the old format to the new format after schema synchronization”.
I had a dream: codeunit references
Polymorphism is a great thing. .NET, Java, C++ and other folks have enjoyed its benefits for a long time, some more than a quarter century already. Meanwhile, we, the meager C/AL bunch, can only dream about it and draft our little patterns that all come short of it if only by a tiny bit.
NAV2016 | Refactoring & Transaction Mirroring in Codeunit 80 & 90
In Microsoft Dynamics NAV we don’t have Abstract Classes or Inheritance. These are modern technologies that make sure that objects in your application have similar elements and signatures.
Despite the lack of these modern concepts NAV does have many tables and codeunits that follow similar structures by design. This has been like this ever since the early days in the 1980s.
Using Codeunits as Classes
This time, I’ll present you with another way to use Codeunits in NAV.
By using Codeunits as parameters to a function, you can use Codeunits as (sort of .NET) Classes.
If you declare different local variables to the same Codeunit, they even have their own version.
Publishing the Jet Data Source Codeunit to the Web Service
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 includes a “Jet Data Source” codeunit which must be published to enable Jet Essentials or Jet Express to operate. This can be published using the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Role Tailored Client (RTC).