General

Debug in NAV 2009

Step 1: Open the Sana Commerce solution in Visual Studio.

If you use Windows Vista and have UAC turned on, you will need to open Visual Studio with 'Run as administrator'.

Step 2: Enable debugging in the CustomSettings.config file which can be found here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\60\Service:


Debugging Option is Enabled

Step 3: Restart the "Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server" service.

Step 4: Setup connectionStrings in the 'web.config' file of the starter site project to connect to you NAV 2009 Server service.

Step 5: Open the 'Codeunit11123311.cs' file (as an example) in Visual Studio:


'Codeunit11123311.cs' File

Step 6: Go to the 'GetDefaultCurrency' method and set breakpoint inside this method:


Inserting the Breakpoint in the 'GetDefaultCurrency' Method

Step 7: Attach the NAV service. Click 'Debug > Attach to process...' and attach 'Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Server.exe':


Attaching the NAV Server Service

Step 8: Run the solution in debug mode using Visual Studio: right click on the 'Sana.Commerce.StarterSite' project in Solution Explorer and click 'Debug > Start New Instance':


Running the Project in Debug Mode

Step 9: Now you are able to debug in NAV 2009.


Debugging Process is Started