How to Use MVC.Net on the Dynamics NAV Database Structure

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So you’ve been asked to make a web portal for some Dynamics NAV data.  You also have a desire to stay current and would like to take advantage of some of the newer web development frameworks out there.  You’ve seen, or heard great things about how quickly you can get CRUD with some of the popular MVC frameworks out there like pages working with MVC.Net or Ruby on Rails.

Introducing the DMS Universal DataPort

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Data is the currency of the information age, so it should come as no surprise one of the more frequent tasks integrators, users, and system administrators encounter when implementing or maintaining a Microsoft Dynamic NAV installation is data migration.  The four common approaches to getting the data from where it resides into NAV are: manual entry in the NAV client, using SQL server’s database tools, using NAV's Excel mapping, or via a NAV Dataport or XMLport.