From the NAV Blogs: Document Map; Farewell to Native Database; Platform Update 2 for NAV 5.0 SP1; How to Immediately Close the Main Form

The Basics of Running the Document Map: Waldo's Blog provides a helpful post with step-by-step instructions on how to setup and use Document Map in NAV 2009: "A document map is a navigation feature that you know from PDF. In some PDF's you can browse the chapters in the document [on the left side of the screen]... Thanks to the RDLC (Refreshed ReportViewer) we can use [Document Map] in NAV 2009."

Saying Farewell to the Native Database: Microsoft Project Manager Stuart Glasson provides a very thoughtful and honest explanation: "We [at Microsoft] are an organization of individuals, often passionate about our beliefs and very emotionally invested in the work that we do. We're very proud of our successes and we want to learn from our failures. We're very human. And as such, when I was asked to work with a team that would decouple the NAV product from our native database, it was with an element of sadness that I agreed. I can also admit that I wanted to do the job because, like many of you, I've worked with this product for over a decade and I wanted this one to happen by someone who understood what we were saying farewell to."

"It's not sad because the original goal of Navision was not to become a best of breed database product - we wanted to build business applications. We happened to build a very clever little database at the ...