Tharanga Chandrasekara

Over ten years of experience in developing and implementing software solutions within the banking, tourism, manufacturing, education and retail sectors. Proven success of technical and functional skills in Technical Solution Development, Technical Consultation, Business Process Analyst, Process Re-Engineering, Solution Design, Project Management, Research & ERP Implementations. Managed and participated in over 40+ successful ERP (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) implementations during the past 10+ years while building relationships and exceeding client and management expectations. Possess a strong ability to turn around at-risk projects and deliver unique results. Recognize the value of being friendly, calm and helpful when interacting with people in all areas of life and always willing to learn new skills to build on strengths and learn from experiences. Active member and a community moderator of the official Microsoft Dynamics NAV Community forum and regularly share knowledge with others through personal Dynamics NAV Blog, user groups and webinars. Strongly believes that "one small piece of knowledge someone shares today could be the cornerstone of a huge concept that changes the world tomorrow". Recognized as a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. It is the only Dynamics NAV MVP in New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Specialities: » Development Languages: AL, C/AL, » ERP: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 to Business Central » Databases: MS SQL » Other: SANA, LS Retail

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Preview of Dynamics NAV Development Tools – How to get Started

I think most of you know by now already that Microsoft has released new Development preview for Dynamics NAV. If you still not updated on that yet, then refer below link on the Preview of Development Tools for Dynamics NAV Preview of Development Tools for Dynamics NAV In this blog post we are going to …

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Preview of Development Tools for Dynamics NAV

Microsoft has deiced to give an early Christmas gifts to the world by introducing new tools to build extensions and apps in and for Dynamics NAV Tool comes in two flavors and both are available in preview from today (21/12/2016). The in-client designer Before talking about it, just have a look at the below gif. I’m sure most of …

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Understanding COMMIT and Transaction Scope within Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Have you tried and thought about what is the transaction scope. In this blog post I am going to discuss little bit about transaction scopes and how the transaction scope works within Microsoft Dynamics NAV.  In order to check the simple scope I am planning to use below code. Pretty simple, its just inserting a record …

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Overview of User Permission : Microsoft Dynamics NAV

During last few versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft has introduced some cool new features. One of my favorite is user permission (It has a long way to go, but it is getting there) . CRM and User Permission : If you have worked with Microsoft Dynamics CRM you might have noticed how good (cool) is …

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December 2016 Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft has published new Cumulative Updates for December 2016: Please refer below links for more information Cumulative Update 01 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 (Build 14199) Cumulative Update 14 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 (Build 47444) Cumulative Update 26 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 (Build 47438) Cumulative Update 38 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 …

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Modern Dev Experience in NAV

It is a new chapter for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Community!  Microsoft has released new AL language code samples for developing extensions on Dynamics NAV plaform. Thank you Microsoft Dynamics NAV development team for making this a sucess and releasing this early preview.  Take a look at how a simple “Hello, World!” codeunit would look like …

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Why Codeunit 1530 : “Request Page Parameters Helper” ignores my report filters

Hi, Last week I was working on a “Customer Statement” Report in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 database. This report was a copy of the original “Statement” (Report 116). Once the modification was done, I simply change the report selection in the Database and then ran the report using Development Environment.  Applied few filters to the …

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November 2016 Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft has published new Cumulative Updates for November 2016: Please refer below links for more information Cumulative Update 13 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 (Build 47042) Cumulative Update 25 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 (Build 47039) Cumulative Update 37 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 (Build 47043) Cumulative Update 44 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (Build …

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 – Home Page

Hi Everyone, I will be posting blog posts about the newly realeased Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017. This page will be the home page for those blog posts. If you need to know anything specific please post them on the commnet section of the blog post. I will be able to look into those and provide …

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New look on List Pages – Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 Web Client offers a complete new look for the list pages.  Webclient comes with sevaral options to change the UI of the list pages. This is something many of client’s requested since it will be easy for them to use tile version UI with touch screens. Following are few sample screens …

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