NAV WebService in Windows Phone query

paszigor

Hi All,
Having listened the following great materials:
http://community.dynamics.com/nav/b/nav ... -2013.aspx
http://community.dynamics.com/nav/b/nav ... -2013.aspx

I have been trying to apply either approach to a Windows Phone (OS 7.1) application. Unfortunately to no avail.
There is no 'Transport' in Security class.
binding.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Windows;

I changed the code of my application to use async data access but it fails on above mentioned line.

private void CreateCustomer()
{
var binding = new BasicHttpBinding(BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly);
binding.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Windows;

var orderpc = new SalesOrderService_PortClient(
binding,
new EndpointAddress("http://localhost:8067/DynamicsNAV70/WS/CRONUS UK Ltd/Codeunit/SalesOrderService"));

orderpc.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "user";
orderpc.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "password";

orderpc.ReadSalesOrdersCompleted +=
new EventHandler<ReadSalesOrdersCompletedEventArgs>(orderpc_ReadSalesOrdersCompleted);
orderpc.ReadSalesOrdersAsync(sales);
MessageBox.Show(sales.Order[0].Customer);
}

It works very well in Windows Forms application but unfortunately fails in Windows Phone/Silverlight one.

Please, help ](*,)

Cheers,
Igor

thegunzo

Hi

I have not done this for Windows Phone, but have you tried to use Web Reference instead of Service Reference ?

paszigor

Hi,
WebReferences are disabled in Windows Phone due to asynchronous processing.

Cheers,
Igor

paszigor

I should've added that SalesOrderService is the Service Reference name to my webservice.

Cheers,
Igor.

KarlRhodes

I'm having exactly the same issues...

We have a client that has a Nav 2009 R2 implementation and we have published a number of web services which they connect to using some tablet PC's. However, the tablets are used in a warehouse environment and are getting damaged. The client would like to replace these with some Windows Phone 8.1 handheld devices with built in scanners.

Microsoft have given us 2 routes here in terms of development. WinRT and Windows Phone (Silverlight). Neither of these allow us to simply add a web reference to the web services and we must use a service reference. The WinRT route does not even allow us to simply add a service reference either. However, I found a great article by Freddy on how to connect to Navision Web Services using Silverlight 3 at the link below. Unfortunately, this falls short in that it does not cover authenticating with the web service at run time, by setting the credentials for the web service. I suspect that Silverlight 3 and either the current version of Silverlight or the Windows Phone version are a little different.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/freddyk/archive ... ght-3.aspx

I also found a YouTube video on how to asynchronously call Navision web services but the .Net Framework options in this video don't appear to be included in the Windows Phone (Silverlight) solutions I can build. I suppose it's worth mentioning here that I am building my Windows phone application using Visual Studio 2013.

Using Freddy's blog, I was able to get to the point where my application gave me a 401 error which makes me think that once I get the authentication part sorted out, I might be well on my way to getting past this hurdle.

I would like to know if anyone else has Web Services working with a Windows Phone 8.1 (Silverlight) application and if they could assist me.

Thanks,
Karl

mdPartnerNL

I am investigating the same solution but can I ask first which mobile devices/model/type you will use?

KarlRhodes

We don't have the devices yet, but our client will probably go with one of the Motorola or new Panasonic devices as they need the build in scanner.