Waldo's Blog - Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Some time ago, Mark blogged an interesting article about running objects from extensions. You can read it here: https://markbrummel.blog/2017/05/20/tip-58-run-extension-objects/ . It made me wonder .. how would I solve this? And one of the problems of asking myself these kind of questions is .. the answer is always the same :-/: Powershell And apperantly, I already blogged something really similar as well :-): http://www.waldo.be/2015/07/09/start-nav-object-in-rtc-with-powershell/ I created...

When you’re a NAV developer, you’re not really spoiled with developer tools. So these are exciting times .. and I think I can speak for many developers when claiming I’m very much looking forward to the upcoming developer tools . Basically because it brings us VSCode .. and VSCode brings us a grown up development experience. Symbol Rename On example is the “Symbol Rename”. You can do that by simply press F2 (or right mouse click / Rename Symbol), and give the symbol...

When doing sessions about VSCode – one of the main advantages people always talk about (in comparison with our classic C/AL development environment (aka C/SIDE)), is “GIT Integration”. Or “Source Control Management right out-of-the-box”. I would even say that it’s difficult to work with VSCode without actually controlling your software. Out-of-the-box GIT Support VS Code ships with Git. So, when you install VSCode, you have a bunch of Git-stuff right under...

If you are a NAV developer, you probably have heard about the upcoming “New Developer Tools”. And if you didn’t, it’s very much time for you to catch up with the readings about this, like: the Getting Started article the Developer Reference Follow the blogs Read and contribute on GitHub And when you read this blog from Freddy – you might as well got started in Extensionsv1, and wonder how you can convert all your work to Extensionv2 – or basically...

I’m sitting in the plane, after I just kicked off my first PowerShot for NAV2017 in Sweden. It was not “the first” PowerShot of this year, because Vjeko actually started one day before me in Norway :-). What are PowerShots? You might have read from previous years that we (Cloud Ready Software) have been “touring” Europe, advocating various topics on NAV – with a strong focus on “Cloud Development”. You can read some overviews on my blog: PowerShots...

Recently, I came across a customer, where a partner had implemented some Stored Procedures on a Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 database. Now, for any change on SQL level that comes to my ears, my first reaction is always “ Nooooooooo “. Or as a pictures tells more than a thousand words: First thing I did was googling to see if the community shared my opinion. Apparently there is nothing to find about recommendations on this: nor good nor bad. I did find a few blogposts on how to call...

It’s not conference season and yet .. I have never been this busy during this part of the year for conferences. That must mean that new stuff (conferences that is..) is coming up. Let’s spend a very short blogpost on what’s coming up for me.. Directions ASIA In fact, at this very moment, I’m on the plane to Bangkok. The EMEA team is organizing its event for the first time in ASIA. I don’t know at all what the experience is going to be like – but I’m...

On my last blogpost on Source Code Analysis (which focused on the LineCount), I got the remark whether it would be interesting to drill into “statements”. I didn’t really know what he meant with it – but it made me think and drill down into the usage of the procedures. You might remember we talked about the “places” in NAV where we were writing code, like: OnValidate trigger, custom functions, OnInsert, .. but also OnDrillDown on a control of a page .. these...

Recently, I came across this nice graph: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/ . Pretty cool to see the comparison. But – obviously – the next question for us Microsoft Dynamics NAV developers is: How many lines of code does Microsoft Dynamics NAV contain? Good question .. and an interesting one. I always told people things like “it’s not easy to navigate in millions lines of code that you didn’t write yourself”. Assuming...

At this moment, I’m working on an Extension for Dynamics 365. One of the requirements is basically “publish an interface to an external packet”. In other words: “publish a bunch of web services”. Now, I’m always trying to find the “best practice” for different circumstances. That’s also why I’m so deep into PowerShell – I think we should automate these “Best Practices” as much as possible ;-). But in this case –...

On Titter, Mark Brummel was wondering on how we would be able to get this wonderful new DEV environment locally, to be able to play with whenever we don’t have an Internet Connection. Well .. by coincidence, I had been trying to wrap my head around that a few weeks ago .. but never wrote up a procedure to do that. Well .. to help an old friend .. let’s do just that ;-). Step 1: Install a new cloud-version of the DEV Tools. You probably did this already. Just go to http://aka.ms/navdeveloperpreview...

You might have noticed, I stopped updating the platform updates. I hope you don’t mind ;-). It just didn’t make any sense anymore when Microsoft moved it to a different location.. . The main reason why I was providing that on my blog, was the “googleability” of the content the updates. All was published on PartnerSource, which meant, nothing was searchable in google.. . And we all know the experience to search for something in PartnerSource ;-). So to help you with that...

It’s been a while since NAV TechDays. And for a while I was thinking to skip the blogpost on how the latest NAV TechDays has been.. . But then again – the convention is without doubt the best one around for NAV developers, while it’s still “just” a private initiative from Luc – so it deserves all the attention it can get. :-). Every year I write to you how perfect NAVTechDays has been .. . Well, this year, no difference! Basically, Luc did it again and put together...

Since Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017, the VM images that Microsoft (Freddy) makes available on Azure, contains the PowerShellGet module. Freddy mentioned that in one of his blogposts about the Azure images . For me this was quite new, but sounded interesting, so I looked into it. What is “PowerShellGet”? Well, PowerShellGet is a module that is now by default present on Windows 10 (and I assume also on Windows Server 2016 – which is by the way the new OS for all the upcoming demo...

For all us NAV developers, Christmas comes early this year. The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team had promised us a preview on the New Development Experience .. and they delivered. It is available from today ! All you need to know to start is documented in their blogpost . It is useless to just repeat what is in there .. so please read it carefully and start playing! Let me just – for you convenience – sum up a few references that might be interesting to you. Provision your own environment...