Waldo's Blog - Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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…

Lately I have been involved in a program from Microsoft that I personally think is really useful. That useful that I’m spending my only spare time at a pool (and not in it) in Bangkok to tell you about it. The Ready To Go Program If you are a partner for Dynamics NAV, you must have heard about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central by now. Whether you like it or not (and I do…), it is a major shift in about everything that has to do in the area we have been doing it. And you might wonder on how to make that shift with your company – which can be seen as a serious challenge. Not because it…

As said in one of my previous posts , I was going to do some “deeper” description of the functionality of the tool that I’m working on to make your “AL”-life in VSCODE a little bit easier: the “ CRS AL Language Extension “. Today: the “ Running Objects ” functionality This was the first major feature that I tried to add. Namely, being able to run an object without having to change and save the launch.json . The easiest way to find the functionality is in the Command Palette. Just search for “>crs:run”, and it will give you all options: Run Object in Web/Phone/Tablet Client These options…

I haven’t been blogging much, lately. But in my defence – I put quite some time in another community project, which I blogged about in my previous post (and will blog about in quite a few coming posts…). To keep up the pace of writing at least one post each month (which I have been able to do so for the past 11 years or so) – I HAD to put something up urgently ;-). And it’s going to be about a new possibility we have in the AL language, which is often forgotten: Function Overloading In C/AL we never had the ability for overloading a function. You know: using the same function name with a different…

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…