# Navision advantages over .net?

**URL:** <https://www.dynamicsuser.net/t/navision-advantages-over-net/34438>\
**Category:** User Forum\
**Created:** [December 12, 2011, 6:49am UTC](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/t/navision-advantages-over-net/34438 "2011-12-12T06:49:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sai\_Ram\_Krishna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Sai\_Ram\_Krishna](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/u/Sai_Ram_Krishna)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 6:49am UTC](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/t/navision-advantages-over-net/34438/1 "2011-12-12T06:49:22Z")

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can anyone briefly descibe the advantages of navision over .net?

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**Author:** ![mohana\_cse06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@mohana\_cse06](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/u/mohana_cse06)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 6:56am UTC](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/t/navision-advantages-over-net/34438/2 "2011-12-12T06:56:21Z")

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Why do you want to compare both of them which are completely diiferent?

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**Author:** ![Sai\_Ram\_Krishna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Sai\_Ram\_Krishna](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/u/Sai_Ram_Krishna)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/t/navision-advantages-over-net/34438/3 "2011-12-12T07:15:43Z")

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@mohana: i agree with you but my question is what are essential features that nav have compare to other languages?

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**Author:** ![Sai\_Ram\_Krishna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Sai\_Ram\_Krishna](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/u/Sai_Ram_Krishna)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 7:23am UTC](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/t/navision-advantages-over-net/34438/4 "2011-12-12T07:23:31Z")

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just i came to knw frm my colleague, nav has additinal features like drilldowns and lookups compare to other languages

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**Author:** ![David\_Singleton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/www.dynamicsuser.net/david_singleton/32/7471_2.png) [@David\_Singleton](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/u/David_Singleton)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/t/navision-advantages-over-net/34438/5 "2011-12-12T14:03:14Z")

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Navision is an ERP system, its used as the core tool for running a business, controlling inventory paying bills etc.

.NET is a methodology for developing code that will work together.

The only thing they have in common is the letter “N” in the name. If you want you could do a similar comparison between Nuts and November.

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**Author:** ![Tarek\_Demiati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@Tarek\_Demiati](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/u/Tarek_Demiati)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.dynamicsuser.net/t/navision-advantages-over-net/34438/6 "2011-12-12T16:39:09Z")

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Trying to compare Navision to .NET would be like trying to compare a car (Navision) against an engine (.NET)

Navision is a full blown ERP (huge existing code base), which is extensible via a development environement where you can invoke .NET assembly if you wanted to.

With .NET you’ve got a robust framework for developing on Windows, howerver if you need an ERP this would take an entire skilled team a few years of development to recreate what’s ship out of the box in NAV …