{"id":416,"date":"2010-07-08T03:17:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T10:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/45.63.48.66\/?p=416"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:59:20","slug":"the-dynamics-nav-developers-gospel-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/the-dynamics-nav-developers-gospel-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dynamics NAV developers Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As a NAV developer there are basically only 2 books to live by:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Application Designers Guide
    \n(Also available in the F1 Online Help in the application)<\/li>\n
  2. C\/AL Programming Guide
    \n(Programming-, Naming-, Numbering-conventions in NAV)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These books should be mandatory reading by any developer\/person doing development, but real world experience unfortunately shows they aren’t. Even for ISV products you see some scary<\/span> interesting examples.
    \n<\/p>\n

    So in case you haven’t seen this before, here they are. Fortunately some of the new Dynamics NAV books cover these basic principles too, especially on how naming conventions are in NAV:<\/p>\n

    “Precise and consistent terminology helps the end user work with the application. Rules for naming and abbreviating everything will also  help programmers gain an understanding of the base application and develop new features faster.”<\/p>\n

    So no need for using prefixes for your variables eg.:<\/p>\n

    recCustomer
    \nl_Customer
    \ng_Customer<\/p>\n

    when you just can use: Customer<\/p>\n

    [dm]9[\/dm]<\/p>\n

    [dm]8[\/dm]<\/p>\n

    Other books on Amazon:<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>

    Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

    \"\"<\/a>

    Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

    \"\"<\/a>

    Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design<\/p><\/div>\n

    \"\"<\/a>

    Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV<\/p><\/div>\n

    \"\"<\/a>

    The NAV\/SQL Performance Field Guide<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As a NAV developer there are basically only 2 books to live by: Application Designers Guide (Also available in the F1 Online Help in the application) C\/AL Programming Guide (Programming-, Naming-, Numbering-conventions in NAV) These books should be mandatory reading by any developer\/person doing development, but real world experience unfortunately shows they aren’t. Even for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,77,38,27,39],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navision","tag-application","tag-navision","tag-guide","tag-how-to","tag-programming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotcal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}