Foreword

Like many other enthusiasts in the NAV community, David ran a family business with his wife, Karen. Their son, Christopher, got his start in NAV by working in the family business. This is the kind of business that made NAV more successful than any other product in the ERP mid-market.

For many years, David has been a key influencer on the new versions of Dynamics NAV and has helped us evolve our developer Help. Based on this work, David wrote his first book on Dynamics NAV in 2007 about how to develop in "classic" NAV.

In 2009, he wrote his second book to help close the gap between the Classic client and the new world of the RoleTailored client and RDLC reporting. Overnight, the book proved to be extremely helpful to the greater community to cross the chasm from the "old" world to the "new" world.

Since then, David and his coauthor and, son Chris, also a NAV expert, have twice rewritten and extended these books to include new versions of Dynamics NAV. Reading the latest book reminds me of how far Dynamics NAV has evolved, both as a product since the first version came out in 1987 and as a thriving community with Karen and David as pioneers and later Chris as a key contributor to books like these.

Michael Nielsen

Director of Engineering,

Dynamics NAV at Microsoft