Waldo's Blog - Microsoft Dynamics NAV

I have been wanting to write this blog for a while. But I’m going to keep it a short one, as I’d like to go into a few topics separately, and I don’t want to swallow too much in one big blogpost with the possibility with some (important?) details would get lost. Thing is – I wrote an Extension. And I’m not talking about an Extension for Business Central in VSCode. No. Well – I did write a few of those as well, but that’s not what this blog is about. I made a VSCode Extension… VSCode Extensibility One of the major advantages and key strengths of VSCode as a development editor is its extensibility…

Since my last blog about the new Code Analysis for Al development , I have been wondering what rules Microsoft actually applies in which Code Analyzer. My good friend an colleague is all into decompiling and reflecting – and he helped my find my way to the object model that Microsoft creates for the Source Code Analysis – to get to the “Diagnostic Descriptors”. We did that in PowerShell – of course (I might share the code when it’s ready to – it will end up on my PowerShell Repository eventually). Below the result. As you know, there are 3 “cops” (Code Analyzers). Let’s see the result per…

Question. Have you heard about something called “Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central”? If not, you must have been sleeping. Because it has been all over.  And it’s going to be released today! Something new, also means new documentation. And I have been drowning in resources on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Allow me to try to sum up the different points The Resources So, let me share you some resources I was able to gather on Business Central, which I think are worth reading. Most probably, I will not list all resources, simply because I’m not aware of all. So, please feel…

Some time ago, I wrote a blogpost on how to enable code analysis for AL development . At that point, it was an undocumented feature – not to say, it was an unfinished feature that you could already enable. Since the developer preview March update , it is officially here, and things have somewhat changed – no, not changed, improved! :-). So, quite necessary to do an update on this, with a little more explanation than the documentation provides. The documentation Besides the explanation on the blogpost , there is also a section on docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business…

Since a recent update of VSCode, you might have noticed that IntelliSense works somewhat different. Well, that’s because VSCode thought to do a good, useful update for you .. but apparently for AL development, it turns out to be quite contra productive.. CTRL+Space You all probably know why CTRL+Space is for? It’s for forcing IntelliSense . Or the official term is “ Trigger Suggest “. In a context-aware intellisense, it’s very useful to get suggestions on which keywords can be used in a certain context. Since one of the latest updates of VSCode, the default behaviour has somewhat changed…

My last blogpost was merely an announcement of Microsoft’s announcement about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. We are a 24 hours later now, so let’s share some more information about this new release of NAV-In-The-Cloud. I assembled this myself, from blogs, documents, slides, talks and mails – so there is a disclaimer for sure (below the mail). The name With quite a sense of sarcasme .. we all “loved” the previous name, right? “ Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation, Business Edition ” – or short: MS365fFaOBE, or shorter MS365FOBE. The one that came up with that name ..…

Microsoft just released the new name for “Microsoft Dynamics 365 ‘Tenerife'”, where “Tenerife” was just a codename for the next version of “NAV-In-The-Cloud”. And as you might have figured from the title, that name is “ Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ” You might know I’m totally not into “marketing fluff” or “branding” for that matter – so Iwouldn’t know if this is a good name. All I can say: I like it! I like it a lot! ;-). The Blog As said – Microsoft just announced today the new branding and some more – by means of a blogpost which you can and should read here . For your…

Disclaimer: this blog is mostly a repeat of what was in Microsoft’s blog .. I just try to spread the word Sometimes I get the question: “Is Microsoft Dynamics NAV GDPR compliant”. I’m not a GDPR specialist, and don’t want to act like it. But … This week, Microsoft blogged about GDPR . And it’s clear you need to ask yourself another question: How can Microsoft Dynamics NAV help YOU, to be GDPR compliant . Because it’s not about the software being compliant (obviously NAV is :p), but it’s about YOU being compliant. And we clearly have Microsoft Dynamics NAV on our side to help us! What is…

Good things ahead. Like last year, I was given the opportunity to speak for Directions ASIA again. And not “just” for a few sessions – but I have quite some hours to cover (8.5 to be specific ). More about that later. Let’s talk about the conference first. Directions ASIA 2018 It’s the second time this conference is held by the “Directions EMEA” committee. And also this time, it’s in Bangkok, Thailand. I have been there last time, and you really can feel the enthusiasm and the positive vibe Dynamics causes – great feeling :-). So I’m definitely looking forward going back in a few weeks.…

I’m not going to blog about each version of this module, but for this update, I felt obligated to share a few words. Primarily, because all has changed :-). Not one function is the same. I renamed all of the functions to a more convenient name – as they were quite long (not to say: ridiculous ;-)). For that reason, I have edited my previous blogpost , where I introduced the new module. Still, since I (think I) made it a little bit easier for you to get started with it, let me share a few short paragraphs on the tool again (some is repeated, but you know – Repetitio Mater Studiorum Est ;-)).…