Mark Brummel

Before we dive into the list of (breaking) changes that I’ve discovered so far, I will first explain how to check your extension against the preview of the fall release. This is mostly interesting for those who are on AppSource or partners who have refactored their IP into On Prem extensions. I’m going to assume all of them have access to the Ready to Go program. If not, send me a message and I’ll help you onboard. In another episode we’ll dive deeper into making your own...

Be careful what you ask for, you might actually get it. This phrase illustrates what we will see when Microsoft releases Business Central Wave II this October where C/Side is removed in favor of Visual Studio Code, The Windows Client discontinued in favor of the Web Interface and the old Navision application is broken into two parts and very heavy refactoring has taken place. For years, we as a community have been asking Microsoft to modernise NAV in order to be more attractive to young developers...

As far as I remember, social media around Business Central/NAV(ision) has never been as quiet as in the last months. There is nothing from the MVP’s anymore and it seems the majority of partners are in the dark about that’s going on at Microsoft. While this is true, Microsoft is updating the GitHub with the new AL foundation periodically with new code but without explaining the strategy. ( https://github.com/microsoft/ALAppExtensions ) In fall, Microsoft will release the first...

Today we’ve successfully completed a workshop at Vos Transport with Global Mediator where we did a demo/prototype of a new user interface defined on metadata embedded in Microsoft Dynamics NAV using client add-ins. We’ve been working on preparing this workshop for over 12 months and I am very happy and proud of the result. Client Add-Ins Within Microsoft Dynamics NAV, client add-ins have been possible for a long time, yet not a lot of partners have picked up the technology...

There should be a simple rule that applies to all members of our community. If you struggle with something and find out the answer, then share it. If everyone starts doing that I’m sure it will improve our community and bring back some joy in the world were even most MVP’s just blog so sell their marketing messages. Again, today I wasted much valuable time of my life chasing weird behaviour in our ForNAV AppSource solution. As most partners we struggle to find a good balance in...

If you work with Extensions in Dynamics NAV there is a fair chance that you’ve seen this message. Today I got it again, waisted half an hour of my live and decided to blog about it. What happened is that I have a Page Extension with the same variable name as already exists in my C/Side page. I’m working with NAV2018 CU17 and the compiler did not complain about this and the publishing process went fine. When you try to open the page the client crashes and this error is what you get...

Today I got this error message while publishing an extension to our Development system. Since our Development system just moved to Azure last week our Azure Specialist and I spent some time troubleshooting this. As always with these things the root cause was not in Azure SQL, but in my C/AL code in C/Side. Our database is hybrid and what I did is removing a codeunit. This was a cleanup since we moved one of our custom DLL’s into an Azure Function. The root cause of the AL0132 was...

It’s a wrap. After 9 months of work the latest edition of the programming book is finished. This is the sixth edition but the first to be AL only. A very specific choice that I made when I started on the project. And a bit of a gamble since I was unsure how long C/Side would last when we started. When you buy the book you will recognise the script and programming examples. This is unchanged and based on the creativity of Chris Studebaker. Also the wisdom of half a decade worth of...

At the airport of Copenhagen (CPH) eating my favorite burger. (Aamanns Burger). Then writing a blog. This is an awkward blog, a blog that was asked for by my colleague Jan when I spent a few days at our office. He asked if I could blog something about converting from C/AL to AL with the ForNAV converter based on the series of blogs by Freddy. ( https://freddysblog.com/tag/c-al-to-al/ ). Off course, at ForNAV, converting code is our bread and butter. But our converter from C/AL to AL is free...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the best and most customizable ERP that ever existed. There, you have it. For some people it’s hard to understand that in one blog I am trying to protect our ecosystem from loosing C/Side and in the next I am praising Business Central to be miles better than any other cloud ERP. The reason is honesty and reflection. If you don’t know NAV/Navision then Business Central is an ERP from Venus. The Web Client’s interface is next to nothing...