Mark Brummel

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 the details: I have to admit something. First of all, this is not actually my code. It came from my colleague Michael Nielsen. Secondly this blog post is a bit orchestrated since Jesper and I discussed in Antwerp at NAVTechDays how to promote...

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 the product and stay there forever. Today I did my first Pull Request and I wanted to share how I did that. What did I need? With reports, especially documents that go out, translations are key. In the next release of our ForNAV extension we...

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 the message but that only brings you to pages that describe the message, not how to fix it. It appears to be easy so I wanted to spare others the time.

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 Studio Code we also moved to file based instead of stored in database. This means we also have to give these files a name and we have the option to organise the files into folders, or subdirectories if you are a born-in-dos generation. If you...

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 Studio Code all the time fixing the errors one-by-one and reconverting. Once the errors are fixed the software can be tested and deployed using either Docker or a local install. This is a very safe way of ensuring there is a migration path for...

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 who are busy executing this task the number one question on their mind, once they got their stuff decoupled from BassApp, is how to break up their extension in multiple apps. Breaking up as a goal I was one of the first to blog about the Business...

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 Ops. Design Patterns, once again Teaching the Design Patterns for AL the first time was fun, challenging and exhausting. It was fun because I got to talk about my passion once again, clean code and design patterns. Challenging because it...

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 know people. No matter who you talk to at these events, all that they have on their minds is moving their IP to Business Central and most are in the middle of that project, some with my help. This is all great and it’s cool to see peoples growing...

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 4000 paying tenants and the average number of users per tentant is 10+ which is the sweetspot where Navision used to be strong. I can also see it in my daily work, especially at ForNAV, where almost all of the support cases and pre-sales activities...

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 a Date. The syntax for defining Date format is yyyymmddD, where D is a mandatory letter. For example, 20180325D, read as the 25th of March, 2018. This should be 99991231D but C/Side exports it using your regional settings. Fortunately...