How to call WCF service from Nav

landlord

Hi,

I need to call an external web service that is written using WCF from Nav 2013. Do I need to create a new class project in VS and to use it as addin in NAV?

I would really appreciate if someone could give me some hints on this.

Thanks.

vremeni4

Hi,

Please take a look at this blog
http://vjeko.com/blog/web-services-black-belt-consuming-nav-web-services-using-pure-cal

Or you can use XMLHttpRequest, as shown in this example
http://navcode.blogspot.com/2012/01/connecting-to-soap-webservice-from.html

I hope this helps.

landlord

Hi Vremeni4,

Thank you for your reply.

Vjeko's codeunit works only with NAV pages, and another example that you provided uses Automation which I can not use with Nav 2013.

I need something that uses DotNet type variables, but I am still not sure if I can call external WCF service from Nav 2013.

vremeni4

Hi ,

Personally I do not see any reason why you cannot use automation.
Most of the automation variables have their presentation in .NET

Anyhow this is a nice and simple example how to consume a web service from NAV.
http://dynamicsuser.net/blogs/waldo/archive/2011/12/20/net-interop-consume-a-third-party-web-service-check-vat-registration-no.aspx

I hope this helps.

landlord

Hi Vremeni4,

I ended up creating an add-in. It was very easy, and I needed just 3 lines of code in NAV to call the service.

Thank you for your help.