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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Release Wave 1 is out (whoa, that was a mouthful) with some new perks for developers. Today, I had another live session at http://vjeko.live, and I made it both the first one in the series of What’s New for the latest release, as well as the episode four of […]

My last two webinars were a great success, and this is not only judging from my angle. Attendees were very happy with them, and the feedback I received was overwhelmingly positive. I’ve got a lot of inquiries about repeating them, and I also got a few ideas for new ones that would allow you to […]

After two very successful webinars about Git internals and Git branching models and strategies, I am now announcing the next one, titled CI/CD from AL developer’s shoes. When talking about CI/CD, one word typically pops to mind: pipelines. But pipelines is just one aspect of this much wider and bigger topic. Let me just say […]

One of the new features of the AL compiler that arrived with 2020 Wave 2 is Precompiler directives. This is nothing spectacular, programming languages had these kinds of things since the dawn of programming languages, and now we have them too. The biggest thing, though, is that on their surface, just like so many other […]

My last topic was resident control add-ins. In my video and written blog I’ve explained what they are and how you can quickly have them up and running. However, there was one particular thing I said I generally don’t like – single-instance codeunits. So my second blog on this topic focuses precisely on that: how […]

A few days ago I’ve announced that there will be a new series of webinars. The last webinar was a success. Apart from a few people complaining that I talked fast, and that there was too much content, I got pretty good comments. People felt quite happy with the content and that the value they […]

One of the most common questions I get asked about Control Add-ins is whether you can make a control add-in be always present and able to respond to your calls from AL. In other words: can you have a resident control add-in that you can invoke from anywhere in your AL code. I’ve done a […]

If you missed my From JavaScript to AL and back: SkipIfBusy live session on January 8, or if you simply prefer to read rather than watch, then this post is for you. As promised, I’ll follow up in writing on all my video blogs, so here we go. It all started with this tweet from Erik Hougaard: #BCALHelp #msdyn365bc If you use the skipIfBusy parameter on InvokeExtensibilityMethod – How do you see if it skipped? — Erik Hougaard (@eHougaard) November 6, 2020 The short answer is – you don’t. You can’t see if it was skipped, and that’s just one of the shortcomings of the Control…

When invoking any REST web services, a lot of AL code mostly looks like this: procedure CallRESTFoo() var Client: HttpClient; Response: HttpResponseMessage; Body: Text; Json: JsonObject; begin Client.Get('https://foo.bar/', Response); Response.Content.ReadAs(Body); Json.ReadFrom(Body); // Process JSON body of the response... end; Of course, there are more things there, like headers or perhaps calling HTTP POST (or another method) instead of GET, but when you strip it down to the bones, the chunk above is what remains. Today’s post is a follow up for my HttpClient Patterns…

Happy New Year everyone, with a little delay. I was busy in the first two weeks of this year preparing and delivering the “Leveraging Git” webinar. It turned out to be quite a success, but it also prevented me from doing my live session last Friday. But this short break doesn’t mean I am not going to get busy with my blog and live blog again. This is what’s coming up. Today, at 14:00 CET, I’ll go live again at https://vjeko.live/ and this time the topic is HttpClient patterns. I am going to demo how to get from a very naive HTTP execution based on direct invocations of HttpClient…