Waldo's Blog - Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Your first reaction is probably – duh, I know! Well – I’m late, that’s true. At Directions North America , Microsoft announced the availability of the new version of Business Central – and I didn’t spend one single post on it. Until now. Reason is simple – I was quite busy at the conference, and I didn’t want to lose too much time on writing. I need to spend 14 hours in a plane anyway – which I’m doing at this point. Greetings from the sky! Directions North America This was by far the best Directions NA to date. Not only thanks to the content, but the organization and the location was magnificent…

When I write this, I’m on the plane to Frankfurt. No, that’s not where Directions US will take place – I will get my connecting flight to San Diego from there. And San Diego IS the place to be for the next week ! Why? Because we live in exciting times when it comes to Microsoft Dynamics NAV ! Yes, I still call it NAV – because at this very point, it’s one of the last times I can call it that. Probably for my next blogpost, I’ll be talking about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central – yes, also for on premise topics :-). Lots of exciting sessions – too much to name them all. But obviously…

I have been blogging a few times about the Diagnostic Descriptors we get when enabling code analysis . Well – yet again, we have new ones. But I’m not going to keep updating these rulesets, as Microsoft is now doing that on docs. So let me give you one more overview, and the resources to the pages on docs per analyzer. Here we go…. For AppSourceCop , it was already known for a while, but now the cop is going to make sure you have a translation file when creating an app for AppSource. On top of that, also quite a good one, it makes sure you don’t forget the data classification (cfr. GDPR in…

You probably know this. I just write this post because I didn’t up until today. I’m using Docker quite regularly (well, if you find “pulling an image twice a day” is regular) .. and I have been using mostly these two repositories according my needs (for more info, look here ): “bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox-master” for the very latest version (the future release) “microsoft/bcsandbox” for the current release Data gone Since quite some time, the databases on this image didn’t hold any data anymore. We could import data using RapidStart Packages – and for a while, this is what I did…

That’s a mouthful, isn’t it :-)? As you might have figured in quite some sessions, threads and posts, I’m quite fond running docker images on a remote Hyper-V on my laptop. From the moment it was described by Arend Jan , I’m using it. In my opinion, it’s a much better way to run, because Windows Server is so much better in memory management as Windows 10 is (in regards of Docker that is). But… And let’s not quote Ed Stark here ;-). A disadvantage of working like this is that you have to “remote” PowerShell in two machines: The dockerhost The container That why I created new PowerShell…

The strangest thing happened to us recently – one that really blew my mind. I’m going to spare you the long road of trial & error we went through to come up with the answer – or at least an explanation of what cause the behaviour. The behaviour Because “a picture tells more than a 1000 words” .. let me just show you. In the below images, you see the language (Dutch) in green – and you see English (which is not set) in red. Even messages: How strange is that? On top of that – there is no code whatsoever that I can influence the wrong parts.. . On top of that – there were other…

Some time ago, I created this script because I wanted to know all the available tags on dockerhub for the “microsoft/dynamics-nav” repository on Docker. Why? I don’t know anymore :-). But it was clear that the “tags” section on DockerHub only showed us a very small part of the available tags. Yesterday, we were wondering why a specific version (one that we used quite some time ago from an insider version) wouldn’t download – and we wanted to have a version ‘as close as possible’ to the one we were using. Well – we need a list for that ;-). PowerShell You might not be surprised I used PowerShell…

I picked up a new challenge these days: for one of our (quite big) customers, we need to develop a solution, based on extensions. In short: ready for the future, easy to upgrade. When I would explain the case in a paragraph, you’d say “this is not NAV”, although when you would really look deep into it, it’s ideal for an Extension-scenario, obviously in combination with Business Central. The project In short, let’s define the project like this: Multiple extensions to be made: A W1 Base Extensions with shared functionality and frameworks For each country (like Belgium) a separate…

Time for the next round of functionality I added in my VSCode Extension (the CRS AL Language Extension ) – a functionality that manages your filenames (and pre/suffix). Hold your horses – this is going to be a long one ;-). You don’t want to know how many hours I spent on this functionality – many points of feedback from the community, and even some pullrequests from some (for all of which I’m very thankful!) has made it into the functionality it is today. The problem(s) I wanted to solve There are multiple problems with filenames, to be honest. We never cared about this In a way, we are…

You might remember my post about the Code Analyzers Diagnostic Descriptors when it first came out. I’m very happy with this tool, as it avoids many mistakes, and it enforces some level of clean coding – which is never a bad thing ;-). Recently, the June update of the AL Language Extension was announced. I was sitting at a swimming pool in Bangkok – so what do you think I did? Exactly: It turned out I downloaded the wrong one :-). I needed to download from the daily build “bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox-master”. Anyway, when playing with it, I noticed there was an update on the analyzers…