Tag: Development

Start Dynamics NAV Development Client (C/SIDE) from PowerShell

Now when we’re at it .. It might be interesting to also start a development client from PowerShell. Why would it be? Well, just suppose you’re creating a merge-script. And in case of conflicts, you want to: Set up a new database Import the merged objects, including conflicts Open the Development Environment to start solving …

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Start Dynamics NAV Windows Client (RTC) from PowerShell

After my sessions during “conference season”, I promised to blog about my scripts. I decided to do this on small pieces of scripts .. and this one is so useful, though I only realised it was useful until I wanted to do a gimmick during a script. I’m actually using it all the time now …

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Get a specific Dynamics NAV Server Setting with PowerShell (a better Get-NAVServerConfiguration)

You might remember this blogpost: NAV 2013 R2: Powershell function to check if ServerInstance is Multitenant or not. It was a small tip on how to check a certain setting. Recently I was working on a script, where I needed some other serversettings, and looking back on the way I was doing the above .. …

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Remove a “Dynamics NAV Web Client” (Remove-NAVWebServerInstance)

You might have run into this .. trying to remove a Web Server Instance, but not finding a corresponding PowerShell commandlet for that. As you know, there are LOADS of PowerShell commandlets for server administration. But in the list, there is not a “Remove-NAVWebServerInstance”. This list kind of prooves it: Is it forgotten? I don’t …

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NAV2015: MODIFYALL behaviour on SQL Server

I’ve just spent an evening on something that I noticed earlier in one of my projects that wasn’t clear to me. And when you don’t understand something? You write blogposts, right? You might have figured from the title .. It was regarding the MODIFYALL. Now, long time ago – in 2008 – I wrote a …

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Coding Guidelines

It was announced a while back (if I’m not mistaken at NAVTechDays), but today, they are officially published on the NAV Design Patterns Wiki, as anounced by Mark Brummel. Coding guidelines are important .. and they have been there for a long time at Microsoft. One might wonder why it took about 25 years to …

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Running PowerShell from NAV

Lots to blog about .. . After all my sessions in the different conventions, I promised to blog the solutions, the scripts that I used during the sessions. Well, let’s start with the most interesting one .. at least in my opinion ;-). Not a script Indeed .. I’m blogging about PowerShell .. and it …

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PowerShell Script to Merge NAV Versionlist

I’ve been trying to get this out for a while now.. finally I was able to :-). If you have been to one of the Directions (US or EMEA) or the last session of the Dutch Dynamics Community, you might have visited one of the session about the great new addition in NAV2015 (in fact, …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2014/10/28/powershell-script-to-merge-nav-versionlist/

Powershell: The Merge-commandlets for NAV 2013

I have been looking forward to blog about this, since I have been testing and working with these commandlets for quite some time now. With the release of Cumulative Update 9, these commandlets are being released .. so FINALLY I’m able to blog about it. But I’m not gonna .. at least, I’m not going …

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NAV 2013 R2: Export objects with PowerShell

A while ago, I create a blog about a way to import objects in NAV with PowerShell. Well, it’s time to do the opposite, and export objects. This is the function I came up with (pardon the formatting – copy/pasting really made it difficult for me…): function Export-NAVApplicationObjectFile { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [String]$WorkingFolder, [String]$ExportFile, [String]$Database, …

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