Working with Windows Phone Controls

Silverlight runtime for Windows Phone provides a variety of controls as part of the framework itself. This article by Lohith G.N., author of Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#, is all about getting to know the controls supported by the framework and understanding how to work with those controls. We will go through each control, understand its usage, and finally learn how to write code to work with those controls.

Building WinRT components to be consumed from any language (Become an expert)

In this article by Taruna Verma, the author of the book, Instant Windows 8 C++ Application Development How-to, we will learn to create a WinRT component and call it from JavaScript.

Windows Runtime or WinRT is an application architecture on Windows 8 that supports development in C++/CX, C#, VB.NET, as well as JavaScript.

A WinRT component is a DLL and is designed to be called from any WinRT-compliant language, such as C++, C#, VB.NET, and Javascript.

In case your C++ component uses a third-party library or you want to re-use some of your code written in C# or VB.NET, you can wrap all the functionality in a WinRT component and refer it from JavaScript or any other language of your choice.

Drilling Back to Source Data in Dynamics GP 2013 using Dashboards

In this article by Mark Polino, author of Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013, will walk you through the deployment of a dashboard. Once you deploy a dashboard, it's inevitable that someone will want more information. They won't believe a number and will want to know the detail that makes up a balance. A great way to manage this is to build a couple of dashboards. Usually, this looks like a primary dashboard with secondary dashboards that break out more information about sales, cash, or departments. We've done this on a very simple level with our Revenue and Net Income tabs. They provide additional detail to expand on the main dashboard numbers.

Another great way to deal with the need for detail, and to take your dashboard beyond what everyone else is doing, is to allow users to drill down into specific transactions or accounts in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013. In this article, we will look at drill down options including:

• Hyperlinks

• Using drill downs present in GP 2013

• The structure of a drill down

• Building your own links with Drill Down Builder

• Drill downs in complex environments

Migrating Data

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is an Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) system targeted at small and medium-sized companies. In this article by Laura Nicolàs Lorente and Cristina Nicolàs Lorente from the book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, we will see which tools can be used in Dynamics NAV to migrate data into the system and how to convert data to meet NAV requirements. We will look at tools such as:

• RapidStart Services

• XMLport

• User defined tools

We will also see what kind of data is commonly migrated to Dynamics NAV and which strategies can be used to migrate it. The kind of data and strategies are listed as follows:

• Master data

• Open entries

• Historical data

• Open documents