Waldo's Blog - Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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…

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…