This book is designed to take you from an introduction to the product and its integrated development tools to being a productive developer in the NAV 2015 environment. It will serve as a comprehensive reference guide, complementing NAV's Help files. You will find this book really useful if you want to evaluate the product's development capabilities or need to manage NAV 2015 based projects. Additionally, you will also learn about the NAV application structure, the C/SIDE development environment, the C/AL language, the construction and uses of each object type, and how it all fits together.
Christopher Studebaker is an NAV developer/implementer and has 15 years' experience in designing, developing, implementing, and selling in the NAV and SQL Server environments. He has specialized in retail, manufacturing, job shop, and distribution implementations, mostly in high user count and high data volume applications. Chris has worked on many NAV implementations with integrations to external databases and third-party add-on products. Some special applications include high-volume order entry, pick-to-light systems, procurement analysis, and web frontends. Chris acts in a consulting and training role for customers and for peer NAV professionals. He provides training both in informal and classroom situations, often developing custom course material to support courses tailored to specific student group needs. Courses have included various NAV functional and development areas. Before becoming a certified NAV developer, Chris was a certified environmental consultant working with manufacturing facilities to meet national and state regulations. His duties included regulatory reporting, data analysis, project management, and subcontractor oversight. His accomplishments include obtaining several safety certifications and managing projects for hazardous material management and abatement. Chris is an expert at NAV installation, configuration, and development. He has been working with SQL in both NAV and other Microsoft applications for over a decade. He has a bachelor of science degree from Northern Illinois University and has done graduate work at Denmark Technical University. Chris was the coauthor of the Packt Publishing book Programming Microsoft Dynamics 2013.