Waldo's Blog - Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Since quite a while, I have been willing to blog this tiny little, but very useful thing that I have been using more that I would have thought before I created it. What is it? Well, nothing too fancy .. just a Github repo with more information about event publishers on a few of the current versions of NAV and Business Central I actually already blogged about how to create such files, which you can find here: http://www.waldo.be/2016/05/30/nav-2016-all-published-events/ In the mean time, I do not only have a better way of doing this (the people that came to my “Waldo’s Tools” session on one…

In 3 days, it’s game-time again. THE best DEV conference for Business Central will take place in Antwerp: NAVTechDays – and I’m honoured to be a part of it again. But this year – it’s quite different, because I signed up for a challenge. This year, I’ll be joining Vjeko on stage for a very special session: Evolution of a titan: a look at the development of NAV from an MVP angle If you think this would be a boring look back at the stuff from the past that you can read about on wikipedia – you would be badly mistaken. Here is the link to wikipedia , because you won’t get that from our session…

Small tip – huge advantage – and one I forgot about until AJ reminded me of it yesterday: the “system information” page in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Centeral. An – as far as I know – undocumented feature, but one worth mentioning! When on Business Central, Microsoft will be deciding when a tenant will be upgraded to a certain version – and you might be wondering “ what is the current version of Business Central of this customer “. Well, simple: just open the “System Information” from the “Tell me what you want to do” (aka: “the search”, aka “the ALT+Q”), like this: And there is your…

You must have heard. Codeunit 1 is a goner ! And if you have not heard it – you must have read about it. Because it has been on Microsoft Docks for a while, and also there was a blog that Microsoft spent on it. Well, before I managed to find these description, I was working on my own overview ;-). So let me share it – I do believe that I look at it from another angle. Where are my events? If we want to extend codeunit 1, we have been subscribing to events. And if not – you should have ;-). So, first question would be – where are the events that we were subscribing to?? Well, I made my…

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…