In software we’ve invented all kinds of terminology to make it sound as if removing a feature is great. Terms like sunsetting and retirement give you a great feeling. Who does not love to see the sun go down with a beer and a loved one. In reality it means that software that once was is no longer and we’ve had plenty of that in our beloved Navision product, now referred to as Business Central. FOB is an abbreviation of Financials Object, just like FLF is short for Financials License File...

Today I had a small talk with my brother about generating custom symbols from C/Side and how to manage that. Here is how I did it. At the company I work for we have a DTAP environment and we (normally) only code in Development. Fobs and Extensions are moved from Development to Test, Acceptance and Production. The quesion is how to control your symbols and move them together with each iteration. Surely you can generate symbols in your production database but that might not be super smart. Alternatively...

In the ForNAV standard report pack we have a few reports that are traditionally slow when running. One of my design goals when developing these reports was to see if I can increase performance. The names of the challenged reports will sound familiar to those in our channel for a longer time. Aged Accounts Receivables & Payables Inventory to G/L Reconcile The latter only exists in the North American localization but whomever spends a lot of time on MiBuSo has seen the questions on performance...

On my task list for one of my customers was a nicely isolated module that I could make into an extension. I’m a huge fan of making many small extensions rather than trying to put all of one customers modifications in one project. In this case it is a side-by-side project with C/Side so I have created my own app file for the packages. I’ll see if I can blog somewhat about that later. Extensions are not just for AppSource Some people seem to think that on-premise we can just as well continue...

Last week the inevitable happened. I created a page in C/Side with an ID that I had already been used by an extension. Microsoft is aware of this issue but does not want to prevent it from happening. The problem is that at first everything seems to work. Your new C/Side page will run just fine. I only...

Looking for feedback as always. As you might know (or not) we ship a set of standard reports with ForNAV which are optimized for the product. With these reports you’ll also get a set of tables, pages, codeunits and in the next version even a query. Out of the box, ForNAV is translated to all the...

Let’s recap on the blog posts from the last three days. Why C/Side deserves one more round. At least… Visual Studio Code is an awesome editor but due to the nature/legacy of Business Central and many ISV solutions it can be less productive when moving large monolitical solutions one-to-one. Solution...

Writing a blog post help me clear my mind and get feedback to my idea’s. Some of my readers are very loyal in their interactive feedback while others just sporadically leave a reply or contact me via the contact page. For this post I also hope to get some feedback. Before we get started, I am not...

Walk with me through the learning curve of a developer who is new to Business Central. We’ll assume he/she is familiar with modern web development. Wow! I’ll give Microsoft the WOW effect. When you spin up Business Central you get more than you bargained for. Where other frameworks show you a hello...

I use Extensions and Visual Studio Code in my daily life. Or at least for a while, nowadays it’s more something in my weekly life. I try to avoid them when I can. Not because they are bad or evil but because they slow down my productivity, and because I have legacy software. Almost everyone I talk...