From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Design pattern update; Keyboard controls; Posted sales invoice numbering

A selection of the latest insight from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV blogs:

• PRS Design Patterns that Should Be Made Obsolete by Microsoft
• How to Control Keyboards Events in Add-in;
• Number Is Missing in the Posted Sales Invoice List

PRS Design Patterns that Should Be Made Obsolete by Microsoft

On his blog, Mark Brummel tells us that he was recently talking with his fellow PRS (Partner Ready Software) member Soren Klemmensen about the fact that a few of the object oriented design patterns that they brought to Microsoft Dynamics NAV could be built in or better integrated.

"For the last four or five years ago we have been working on the Design Patterns project. Next to documenting the existing patterns with Microsoft we also tried to look at some best practices to better code in Dynamics NAV. They are also design patterns, categorized as implementation patterns, meaning the way you structure code."

Examples of these patterns are:

• Class, Method, Property (aka Agents/Actions)
• Natural Language Programming
• Encapsulation
• Façade
• Hooks
• Interfaces
• Surrogate Keys

Brummel says Microsoft should make some of these design patterns obsolete. You can find out which ones and why here.

How to Control Keyboards Events in Add-In

On the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team blog, Gedas Busniauskas from Microsoft Lithuania says that the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Role Tailored Client enables users to