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So to continue where we left off yesterday when I did a pull request on the Business Central System App project on GitHub. After my pull request someone at Microsoft did a code review in order to make sure quality standards are respected. Here are…

With the recent Wave II release of Business Central we also got the first wave of Open Source in our beloved NAV/BC product. This means that rather than making customization for one specific customer or ISV you can now have this pushed back into…

Today I was a bit puzzled by getting this error message and how to fix it. error AS0054: The AppSourceCop configuration must specify one of the following properties: 'mandatorySuffix', 'mandatoryPrefix', or 'mandatoryAffixes' Yes, you can google…

This is a blog that I wanted to write for quite a while, but it’s only until last week or so that I think I’ve found what I like to call, a “best practice” or if you will, a “Design Pattern”. What is this all about? With the move from C/AL to Visual…

When you try to convert existing C/Side objects to AL the first attempts are typically done while scoping OnPrem. This gives an overview of the errors to be fixed w.o things like DotNET. In this phase you typically switch between C/Side and Visual…

If you have IP for Microsoft Dynamics NAV in C/Side your are either in the process of moving it to AL and Business Central or you are busy finding a buyer for your company. Both seem to be very valid options these days. When you talk to the engineers…

It’s the weekend after NAVTechDays and I rested from a busy week. Two days of pre-conference training and two days of talking at (a lot of) people mostly at the ForNAV booth but also at the booth of Meta UI, Continia, SQL Perform, Anveo, Prism and AL…

Last Thursday I was at the QBShare event in Veghel, Holland. I’ve been attending these events ever since I joined ForNAV a few years back and since the audience is a bit different from my normal events (CEO vs. Developers) it took me a while to get to…

It’s the week of NAVTechDays, the biggest Business Central Community event of the year and I thought it would be good to spend a few moments on the state of our community. Business Central is taking off. According to Microsoft there are more than…

It’s friday afternoon and I’m goofing around a bit with the ForNAV AL Converter. I ran into something I want to share. AL seems to be more strickt in hardcoded dates than C/AL. Example Constant value '99993112D' is outside the range for…

By Steve Krisjanovs Below is a list of all COD10201 external functions and where I believe their event equivalents live in. There were three functions in the list below that had me stumped so a second set of eyes would be helpful. I do still…

This article was triggered by a discussion on Yammer yesterday that I felt went a bit sideways. Business Central is a first class cloud citizen and it beats born in the cloud solutions easily but fact remains that it’s based on Navision, an ERP…

With the retirement of C/Side we have a challenge we did not have before regarding the license. We used to be able to see the license information from C/Side, upload the license and quickly create a new page that displays permissions. With…

If I get asked the same question twice I am already tempted to blog about it. This one exceeds this number and is long overdue. It looks like the whole world is now converting from C/AL to AL and running into challenges with that. Right now…

WARNING!! Personal opinion here! Inspiration to write down idea’s are everywhere. Next week my youngest son has his birthday and we went out this evening with the train to the big city of Deventer to buy him (us) a Nintendo Switch. I’ve been…

It seems that when my blog posts appear some people hold their breath. Don’t worry, that won’t be nessesairy this time. I am at the Vienna airport and just wanted to write some thoughts I have after the event. When I look at 2.500 people wondering…

The “Where-Used” in Visual Studio Code is nice, but not always productive. Today I wanted to see where a field was used and came up with an alternative I wanted to share. ObsoleteState If you mark a field ObsoleteState::Pending the compile…

Sometimes I can be a bit emotional when it comes to changes in the software product I work with on a daily bases. An example of that was my previous blog that I took offline in order to do some editing making it less about emotion and more about facts…

Now that the NDA on Business Central Wave II has been lifted and the DVD preview is released partners got time to look at the code Microsoft has refactored. The reactions vary from being marketing correct to more realistic . I have a strong…

This is something that’s long overdue, I wanted to write this before my summer vacation. My reason for holding back is that I want to share all the code for this project and this needs cleaning up. This is still not done and if you want the code…

The Business Central Community loves Git, but GitHub does not seem to even know we exist. It recognises our projects as perl projects and there is no suggestion for a .gitignore file. Why .gitignore? It’s generally considered best practice…

One of the most anoying things about writing AL code in Visual Studio Code is getting warnings that you cannot fix. Simply impossible. My “favorite” warning is this one For almost a decade it’s been possible to sort on flowfields from…

When developing extensions for Business Central you have a wide array of publishing options to choose from. My most used options when working on the ForNAV Customizable Report Pack are our Sandbox and Docker. Testing is best on the Sanxbox…

Feedback is critical for Microsoft to improve Business Central and all of their other products. For this reason a preview is published of the upcomming release this fall. You can install this using Docker and I’ve been told a DVD will be made available…

UPDATE!! Microsoft is listening!! Big news, it seems that Microsoft is fixing the issues we’ve found in our App for AppSource. Both the functions on the TempBlob and the Language table will be added back! But also, let’s continue where we left…