Creating a control Add-in

As you may know, NAV 2009 allows for "Control Add-Ins". This allows you to add any standard windows control (or 3^rd party windows controls) to NAV. Not only do you have access to the controls, you have access to their events. By using this, I was able use a standard windows text box (the kind you use in visual studio), and use the "TextChanged" event, so the filters on a customer list update as the user is typing. (similar to find as you type in the classic client, only in text boxes on the grid, not a separate form).

It is a bit tricky to get working. You need to compile a special NAV control dll, and this dll needs to be installed on each computer running the role tailored client. But the result is worth it I think.

Compiled C# dll's

In this scenario, I had built my own dll for encryption (taken from http://mibuso.com/blogs/kirtangor/2010/03/23/implementing-encryption-in-microsoft-dynamics-nav/). While building it was straight forward, registering it was another matter. The standard regsvr32 was not working. The code that ended up doing it was:

c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\RegAsm.exe TripleDES.dl /tlb:TripleDES.tlb