Convert NAV to C#/.Net solution

locky
locky Member Posts: 6
edited 2011-08-02 in General Chat
Hi all!
Is there any tool to convert existing NAV solution/database to something like VS C# project?
I mean - including UI, forms, reports, codeunits, table's triggers, C/AL code etc.
so i'll be able to simply (or maybe not so simply - with some manual assistance/review) compile that project and get rid of NAV?

thx in advance,
Alex

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  • matttrax
    matttrax Member Posts: 2,309
    Seriously?

    You want a tool that will convert a legal, or I guess technically even demo, version of NAV to a pirated .NET copy?

    What is your actual purpose for wanting to do this? To not pay licensing fees?
    Matt Traxinger - ArcherPoint
  • locky
    locky Member Posts: 6
    i'm not so strong in licensing area, so i really dont know if i (or someone else) have right to make this conversion
    now i just guessing that if there is a commercial tool for such conversion then someone's jurist already take care about licensing and possibility of such type of conversion

    yup, NAV is too expensive for small installation (1-3 users) and there is not so much NAV developers (and such developers are expensive too), so i think - if i could move from NAV to, say, VS Express and hire/outsource .Net developers
  • Alex_Chow
    Alex_Chow Member Posts: 5,063
    locky wrote:
    i'm not so strong in licensing area, so i really dont know if i (or someone else) have right to make this conversion
    now i just guessing that if there is a commercial tool for such conversion then someone's jurist already take care about licensing and possibility of such type of conversion

    yup, NAV is too expensive for small installation (1-3 users) and there is not so much NAV developers (and such developers are expensive too), so i think - if i could move from NAV to, say, VS Express and hire/outsource .Net developers

    Send an e-mail Microsoft detailing what your plans are. They'll give you a proper response.
    Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant = my blog
    AP Commerce, Inc. = where I work

    Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development = my book
    Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - 3rd Edition = my 2nd book
  • locky
    locky Member Posts: 6
    Alex Chow wrote:
    Send an e-mail Microsoft detailing what your plans are. They'll give you a proper response.
    maybe it would be a good idea
    i quickly searched MS site and found SSMA conversion tool for databases and Power Builder.
    Maybe MS have a tool for NAV or have partner service for this conversion.
  • bbrown
    bbrown Member Posts: 3,268
    locky wrote:
    ...NAV is too expensive for small installation (1-3 users) ...

    Not every product is intended to address every market. This is also why General Motors builds Chevys as well as Cadillacs.
    There are no bugs - only undocumented features.
  • generic
    generic Member Posts: 511
    Here is NAV in visual Studio.

    viewtopic.php?f=16&t=47106
  • davmac1
    davmac1 Member Posts: 1,283
    This is funny.
    QuickBooks is not available in C# code but it is priced right for the small business with a low budget.
    I am totally surprised Microsoft does not have amagic button to turn NAV into an open source pirateable software. Maybe you should ask Google - they like doing things for free and love tormenting Microsoft,
    David Machanick
    http://mibuso.com/blogs/davidmachanick/
  • locky
    locky Member Posts: 6
    as far as i can understand such conversion can be treated like "reverse engineering" and (possibly) prohibited by EULA?

    well, i guess that the simplest way is to write custom sales application in .Net to handle stores's needs
  • bbrown
    bbrown Member Posts: 3,268
    Well actually it has more to do with intellectual property rights and copyright infringement. But that's one for the lawyers.
    There are no bugs - only undocumented features.
  • locky
    locky Member Posts: 6
    thx to all!
    gone to hire some developers to write "yet another" simple sales application :)
    or maybe to buy domestic "quickbooks" - need to recheck budget and make, at last, decision
  • kriki
    kriki Member, Moderator Posts: 9,121
    locky wrote:
    NAV developers (and such developers are expensive too)

    Know the prices of SAP'pers? In comparison NAV'vers are cheap.
    Regards,Alain Krikilion
    No PM,please use the forum. || May the <SOLVED>-attribute be in your title!

  • Alex_Chow
    Alex_Chow Member Posts: 5,063
    Or AX'pers.
    Confessions of a Dynamics NAV Consultant = my blog
    AP Commerce, Inc. = where I work

    Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development = my book
    Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - 3rd Edition = my 2nd book
  • DenSter
    DenSter Member Posts: 8,307
    I think what they meant is that it is much easier to find a .NET rookie willing to work their butts off for peanuts :mrgreen:
    Daniel Rimmelzwaan
    RIS Plus, LLC
  • jlandeen
    jlandeen Member Posts: 524
    I really wish they would have found a way to finish/sell the "Entrepreneur" version of NAV that they had a few years ago to address the lower end of the market and provide a nice introductory path to full fledged NAV.

    There are already quite a few products out there on the market that can serve the really low end for price concious customers to use - such as xTuple (On Premise open source ERP) and www.xero.com (cloud based light weight accounting application). Also with QuickBooks producing an online offering and companies moving to the cloud there are lots of lower end offerings.

    Hiring developers, building a new brand and a new product from scratch....really doesn't seem like it's the most effective solution, but better then the non-legal way of porting NAV to .Net!
    Jeff Landeen - Sr. Consultant
    Epimatic Corp.
    http://www.epimatic.com

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