Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition

C/SIDE programming

Many of the things that we do during development in C/SIDE might not be called programming by some people as it doesn't involve writing C/AL code statements. However, so long as these activities contribute to the definition of the object and affect the processing that occurs, we'll include them in our broad definition of C/SIDE programming.

These activities include setting properties at the object and DataItem levels, creating Request pages in Reports, defining Controls and their properties, defining Report data structures and their properties, creating Source Expressions, defining Functions, and, of course, writing C/AL statements in all the places where we can put C/AL. We will focus on C/SIDE programming primarily as ...