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Hi,

I am currently at TechEd 2006.

Since I am here as part of the MVP program, it seams only fair to all of you to ask if there are any questions I can ask to the pro's here or try to find out. , Since being a MVP is the result of all of your questions.

I will be working as part of the staffing of the Dynamics part.

More information about TechEd

http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2006/default.mspx

When will a beta version be available for NSC's?
As you mentioned the 3 tiered system, how does it effect our programming?

Will we get a better text editor for the development environment?
.NET and COM integration, what has improved?
Error, exception handling, have they done anything about it.

Report writer, what has changed?

Scheduling, have you build something about it. For example to schedule to run a report a certain time and email it to somebody.

Licensing, has anything changed? paying 200 dollars for a table is terrible. If you tell this to a .NET developer they'll laugh at you.

Running business logic outside of navision? Can we do that?

I have made small change to the job scheduler, enabling it to run thue the NAS. Is actualy is the scheduler form in a singleinstance codeunit with a timer trigger in it.

Maybe I'll post it to the download section when I get back to Holland.

Tech Ed Update Sunday

We had a mvp meeting today. My first international one. It is realy great seeing all of these gurus getting together.

It actualy felt a little strange being between all of these visual studio/sql and windows expert. Dynamics is realy a different type of sports.

We had a presentation by Sean O’Driscoll telling eveyone how great the MVP program is. And it is.

Only thing is when he mentioned, 'when you are a mvp'. I do nog recognise myself into that. Acutaly the mvp-girls, April and Melissa congratulated me on having a social life, instead of 12 computers at my house.

After that we had some roundtable sessions, but not much dynamics stuff was mentioned, but I might got a change of aranging some stuff for the mvp program concerning Dynamics in the future. [NDA]

At 5:30 we had a staff meeting for the dynamics guys. Unfortunately the Navision guys are flying in late so I will be meeting them tomorrow.

After that we had the keynotes. This was a realy great show with some of the microsoft top gurus telling all about where microsoft is heading and how important we are, stuff like that.

I'll keep you all informed about how things are evolving here. Tomorrow is the real start.

I am not realy into the blogging stuff since it is very timeconsuming. You might want to have a look at this website.

http://techedbloggers.net
Best,

Marq.

I watched the live event of the keynote. I think the hostes from the show 24 kept it entertaining.

Oh something else I found today that is amazing is MSDN virtual servers where you can get 90 min free access like terminal services to most MS software. I tried SQL 2005. It is great. http://msdn.microsoft.com/virtuallabs

Monday Update,

Today was the real start of the TechEd. I met most of the Navision crew today. I is realy great meating up with all of these guys after 7 or 8 years of Navision developing.

Today started off with a strategic biefing about the dynamics brand. There was loads of stuff about the CRM 3.0 version and the AX 4.0 version but the thing I liked most was the preview about the new generic Dynamics Client first being adopted in NAV 5.0 next year.

It realy looks great. Especialy when running on a Vista client.

Anyone got a look at Vista. There is a lot going on at this TechEd about Vista and Office 12.

Going back to the NAV 5.0 Client.

Much of the stuff today under NDA will be released at the TechEd tomorrow. To please stay tuned for the update tomorrow.

There were 2 NAV sessions today.

There was the introduction to Dynamics NAV thing. This was a realy nice session when you'd never heard about NAV. Todd told about all the things NAV is about and the dev environment, changing the application layer, stuff like that.

The other session was about tuning NAV for SQL. One of the realy amazing things about this session was the first slide. It was actualy saying; We have a problem running on SQL. But the next slide said; We have the solution. It was another aproach than the marketing guys take when talking about NAV on SQL without any problems.

There was a presentation about some absolutely realy cool set of tools within NAV enabling the SQL from within the NAV environment instead of the SQL enterprise manager.

This evening I had Demo station duty from 6.30 until 9.00 pm.

It was realy cool having a GP mvp coming to our booth telling: Hey we have a problem with a customer and we cannot solve it in GP.

I told him about NAV about the availability of changing within all of the NAV application and this guy was realy getting entousiastic about NAV instead of GP, saying NAV could solve this problem whereass GP could not.

Also realy a great thing was that half of the NAV team from denmark were waching me explaining it to this guy while biulding half of the solutoin in NAV during the conversation. It was realy great getting compliments of the NAV team about modifying NAV while taling to a 'customer'

After that there was a AX developer asking about the difference between NAV and AX. I told him about the difference in adoptability. I showed him how easily NAV can be changed and modified to your business needs. And he got realy entousiastic about NAV instead of AX.

Next to that there was a dinner with all of the NAV TechEd crew. It was a realy great opportunity meeting with all of these guys.

All together is was a great day.

Tomorrow is THE presentation about NAV 5.0

Best,

Mark.

PS. I am a bit dissapointed about the replies to this thread. If you have any replies please post them, even if they are smiley post.
Please remember that I am on a realy tight scedule on this event. I only have about 10 to 15 minutes a day to get you guys updated about what is going on here. The days here start at 6am and stop about 11pm and you have to catch some sleep inbetween.

Thanks for the info, it seems like you are not just good developer, but good salesman too . I am thinking about participating on Europe TechEd, but still I do not know...

I wish you many exciting experiences...

Great article you wrote here, Mark. Keep up the good work.

Waiting for this !!!


Thx Mark for the job, it's like we are all together in the States ...

Thanks for keeping us informed. I just hope NAV 5.0 receives a better quality management than 4.0SP2

Keep posting. Thank you.



What are/were they?




What kind of tools?

I am really jealous.... I wish I could be there....

Excellent article Mark, thanks for keeping us posted. I want to know more about the web services capabilities.

If you want to know more about the webservices, see my last blog entry. It is good example how to create some webservice now... I know, that NAV 5.0 will have another tools for that, but..

getting people into nav from GP & AX - you might have a future in sales

I'm waiting the NAV 5.0 presentation... and I can't wait!! If only I was there..... Give us feedback, do it for us all!