Gunnar's Blog

As we move from C/AL and all-in-one database we need to redesign how we make one application or a functionality available to the next. Microsoft recommends that we build multiple AL extensions, not putting all our code into a single extension. My goal is to be able to develop, test and execute an extension regardless of if other extensions are installed or not. Some functionality may depend on another extensions. Still I don’t want to add compile dependencies between these extensions. For just over a year we have been designing and implementing methods to solve this task. In the…

The goal of this post is to demo from start to finish the automated build and test of an AL solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Configure build steps The build steps using AdvaniaGIT are similar to the build step Soren describes here . The first two steps and the last one is automatically created.  We create PowerShell steps to be executed in between. To begin with I like to make sure that the previous build environment is removed.  If everything is configured and working correctly the environment is removed in the end of every build. Since I am working on daily builds…

The goal of this post is to demo from start to finish the automated build and test of an AL solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Configure build steps The build steps using AdvaniaGIT are similar to the build step Soren describes here . The first two steps and the last one is automatically created.  We create PowerShell steps to be executed in between. To begin with I like to make sure that the previous build environment is removed.  If everything is configured and working correctly the environment is removed in the end of every build. Since I am working on daily builds…

The goal of this post is to demo from start to finish the automated build and test of an AL solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. About the build steps All build steps are execute in the same way.  In the folder ‘C:\AdvaniaGIT\Scripts’ the script ‘Start-CustomAction.ps1’ is executed with parameters. param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$False, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyname=$true)] [String]$Repository = (Get-Location).Path, [Parameter(Mandatory=$True, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [String]$ScriptName, [Parameter(Mandatory=$False, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true…

The goal of this post is to demo from start to finish the automated build and test of an AL solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. About the build steps All build steps are execute in the same way.  In the folder ‘C:\AdvaniaGIT\Scripts’ the script ‘Start-CustomAction.ps1’ is executed with parameters. param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$False, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyname=$true)] [String]$Repository = (Get-Location).Path, [Parameter(Mandatory=$True, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [String]$ScriptName, [Parameter(Mandatory=$False, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true…

The goal of this post is to demo from start to finish the automated build and test of an AL solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Setup and configure the build machine We will create our build machine from a standard Windows 2016 template in Azure. Docker containers and container images will take a lot of disk space.  The data are stored in %ProgramData%\docker It if obvious that we will not be able to store the lot on the system SSD system drive.  To solve this I create an 1TB HDD disk in Azure. After starting the Azure VM and opening the Server Manager to look…

The goal of this post is to demo from start to finish the automated build and test of an AL solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Setup and configure the build machine We will create our build machine from a standard Windows 2016 template in Azure. Docker containers and container images will take a lot of disk space.  The data are stored in %ProgramData%\docker It if obvious that we will not be able to store the lot on the system SSD system drive.  To solve this I create an 1TB HDD disk in Azure. After starting the Azure VM and opening the Server Manager to look…

Up to now we in Advania have been using the method described here on my blog to connect to most of the Soap web services that we needed to integrate with. The problem with this method is that we have to manage a lot of DLLs.  This has caused some issues and problems. Another thing is that we are moving to AL .  And in AL we can’t just throw in a custom DLL to do all the work. In C/AL We can do this with standard dotnet objects DOMDoc := DOMDoc.XmlDocument; DOMProcessingInstruction := DOMDoc.CreateProcessingInstruction('xml','version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"'); DOMDoc.AppendChild(DOMProcessingInstruction…

Up to now we in Advania have been using the method described here on my blog to connect to most of the Soap web services that we needed to integrate with. The problem with this method is that we have to manage a lot of DLLs.  This has caused some issues and problems. Another thing is that we are moving to AL .  And in AL we can’t just throw in a custom DLL to do all the work. In C/AL We can do this with standard dotnet objects DOMDoc := DOMDoc.XmlDocument; DOMProcessingInstruction := DOMDoc.CreateProcessingInstruction('xml','version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"'); DOMDoc.AppendChild(DOMProcessingInstruction…

Microsoft supports Side-by-Side development for C/AL and AL .  To start using the Side-by-Side development make sure you have the latest version of AdvaniaGIT add-in for Visual Studio Code  and update the PowerShell scripts by using the “Advania: Go!” command. When the Business Central environment is built use the “Advania: Build C/AL Symbol References for AL” to enable the Side-by-Side development for this environment.  This function will reconfigure the service and execute the Generate Symbol References command for the environment.  From here on everything you change in C/AL on this environment…