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Hello, unicode!

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:May 17, 2012
Post category:NAV 2013
Post comments:7 Comments

你好，世界！გამარჯობა, მსოფლიო! હેલો, વિશ્વ! مرحبا، العالم! שלום, עולם! नमस्ते, दुनिया! こんにちは世界 ಹಲೋ, ವಿಶ್ವದ! 안녕하세요, 세계! Γεια σου, κόσμε! Привет, мир! வணக்கம், உலக! హలో, ప్రపంచం! สวัสดีโลก!

No, no, I didn’t go fully crazy yet, but I’m surely closing in. Maybe it’s not at all such a big deal as I see it, but the new Unicode support in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is just blowing my socks off. After a quarter century of being tied to a single code page of choice, NAV has finally been freed of it’s single byte per character legacy.

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Beta Available!

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:May 14, 2012
Post category:Dynamics NAV NAV News
Post comments:5 Comments

I don’t know about you, but I think today is a great day: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Beta has been published on PartnerSource, and if you have access, you can…

Dynamics Top 100 Nominations for 2012

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:March 3, 2012
Post category:Community
Post comments:2 Comments

It’s the fourth year of DynamicsWorld’s Microsoft Dynamics Most Influential People Top 100 list, and it’s the nomination time. Last year I’ve somehow found my way onto this list (and…

Passing strongly-typed data to Web services

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:February 22, 2012
Post category:Development
Post comments:4 Comments

Passing strongly-typed data to NAV Web services can be trickier than it seems. If you are lucky, you can make your method accept strongly-typed parameters, and you are good to go. However, if you just can’t avoid sending text data, your text must be encoded in EN-US format, otherwise it will cause problems (see this).

What the heck, just encode the data as EN-US, right? Not quite. There are a myriad of reasons why data can come in non-EN-US encoding, one of which is this: it’s the Web services, for Pete’s sake – anyone or anything can call them.

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Microsoft Dynamics Mayhem

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:February 16, 2012
Post category:Book
Post comments:0 Comments

If you thought “here he comes again” with the bugs and stuff, no – this is not about it. This is just about a new sales campaign launched by PACKT…