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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March 2017 Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft has published new Cumulative Updates for March 2017: Please refer below links for more information Cumulative Update 4 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 (Build 15601) | Details  Cumulative Update 17 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 (Build No 48067) | Details  Cumulative Update 29 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 (Build No 48062) | Details Cumulative …

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Understanding COMMIT and transaction scope with temporary records within Microsoft Dynamics NAV

If you did not went through the previous post on “Understanding COMMIT and Transaction Scope within Microsoft Dynamics NAV“,  I suggest you to go through it before start reading this blog post.  What do you think about temporary records and transaction scopes?   Most of developers think temporary records are managed as transactions, but it’s not.  …

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Use of Virtual Table : Date – Microsoft Dynamics NAV

This blog post is about something powerful but hidden within Microsoft Dynamics NAV. I believe many developers always work with dates over and over during their day-today life and i’m sure many of you have done many functions which convert, split and do all sort of things with date. Saying that many developers does not …

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January 2017 Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft has published new Cumulative Updates for January 2017: Please refer below links for more information Cumulative Update 02.1 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 (Build 15052) Cumulative Update 15.1 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 (Build 47838) Cumulative Update 27 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 (Build 47665) Cumulative Update 39 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 …

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Integrate Dynamics NAV 2017 with Dynamics CRM Online

This blog post contain step wise guide on how to integrate Dynamics NAV 2017 with Dynamics CRM Online (Dynamics 365).  If you like to create a temporary test CRM account, please follow below steps in the gif.  Make a note of Dynamics CRM URL and user account details in a separate notepad. These details will …

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Dynamics NAV and Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016 released in October 2016 with many new and interesting capabilities. For more information, see their announcement here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/cloud-platform/windows-server Over the last few months, the Dynamics NAV team has been testing compatibility with this new version of Windows Server, and we are now proud to announce that Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017, Microsoft Dynamics …

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Awarded as Microsoft MVP – 2017

What a great way to start the new year! Second consecutive year as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. It is a great honor to receive the most prestigious award a person who works with Microsoft technologies can receive. The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. I want to thank all the people who helped me to …

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Wishing You All a Happy New Year!

It’s 2017 already and I wish you and all your loved once a perfect year ahead.  Year 2016 is one of the best year for me due to many reasons. Specially it is the first year I got the MVP award from Microsoft for Dynamics NAV and it allows me to become the first Dynamics …

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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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