Consuming Nav Web Services with Windows Phone 8.1

KarlRhodes

As a .Net developer, consuming Navision web services is really easy and very well documented. However, we are in the process of re-writing an application that will now run on a Windows 8.1 Phone device and are finding it a little difficult to find any documentation on how this is done.

Can anyone point me to a site that walks the user through this, or at least has some decent explanation on how it's done?

Thanks,
Karl

thegunzo

Hi

There is nothing special about web services for Windows Phone 8.1
A c# Windows Phone 8.1 project in Visual Studio should work like a c# project for windows.

KarlRhodes

That's not the case in my experience...

I am a .Net developer by trade and can easily create web service references in ASP.Net and Windows Forms applications in Visual Studio using the Add... > Service Reference > Advanced > Add Web Reference etc on the solution explorer window. However, I have looked for the same thing in my Windows 8.1 Phone solution and these options don't seem to exist.

If I right click my project, and then go to "Add" I see "Reference" and "Connected Service". Reference is, as you would expect, for libraries and .Net namespaces etc, and Connected Service only seems to allow me to configure and manage Azure subscriptions.

If I am missing something then I apologise, but I just don't see where I can configure a Navision Web Service in my solution.

I genuinely appreciate your input however, and if you know how it's done, please let me know...

Thanks,
Karl

thegunzo

Well, you are correct. I tried this my self.

But, you can use OData.

http://www.dynamics.is/?p=1986

KarlRhodes

Thanks, I thought I was going mad... :P

oData was introduced in Nav 2013 right? Our client is using Nav 2009 R2...

I have a bad feeling about this, and suspect this is going to be far more difficult to do than I imagined if it can be done at all!