Waldo's Blog - Microsoft Dynamics NAV

For long, we (as a partner community) have been asking for longer field lengths. And this time, Microsoft seems to have delivered: about 860 field lengths were changed. Mostly from Text50 to Text100, but also from Text30 to Text50 and so on. For your convenience, I created a csv on my “CALAnalysis”-repo on github that lists all of them. Caveats With this change, there are some caveats that I can think of – and there might be even more then I list here below. First of all: what if a Business Central database contains C/AL customizations or AL extensions or apps on AppSource? If a database…

I’m returning back from yet another great Directions US event in Las Vegas this time. At this point – I’m sitting in the lounge in New York – a great opportunity to do a short post about something I didn’t really expect, and now I’m quite obligated to do.. . I total, I did about 13 hours of sessions and workshops. That’s a lot. I never was busier – mainly because of Vjeko, who couldn’t join this year, and where I agreed to take over his sessions on Artificial Intelligence. That was a great experience – not only because it was very well prepared by Vjeko, but also for me the perfect opportunity…

My intentional plan was to share a small blog about the Fall release of Business Central . Well – it turned out I had more to say than I imagined beforehand ;-). I would like to focus on one point, where I’m not going to make myself really popular, as I notice quite a lot that people kind of disagree with me quite a lot :-). But that’s ok .. I don’t mind different opinions, as long I’m allowed to express mine ;-). Please take everything that follows as my opinion, and my opinion only. Fall 2019 release In Fall (probably October), we’ll have yet another major release of our beloved product…

You might remember my blog from yesterday … . I didn’t know when it would be released. Well, it wasn’t available yesterday, but today, I got the comment on my blog from Daniel Göhler that it was available – so I refreshed my container again, and indeed! I used this Docker image: mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:be (I assume you can use your own country-tag, or none for W1) But I also got these links from … : … Daniel Göhler: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/global/support/bconpremdownload ... Steven Renders: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=58106…

I’m not attending Directions ASIA this year – and it doesn’t really feel good. There is a major release around the corner, and I have to experience it through social media – I hate it! But that’s life – my wife is going live with a huge project, so I had some duties at home ;-). Luckily, the go live is going quite well, so it seems to have been worth it ;-). Having said that – the below blogpost is actually completely redundant. In fact, when I finished it, and was reviewing it, I came across this article on Microsoft Docs: What’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central . But hey,…

My last blog about my VSCode extension dates from July 2018. I have been upgrading/maintaining it meanwhile, and I am definitely not going to blog about all new small features and fixes (yes, quite necessary as well ;-)) every single time, but for this one, I really felt that an update wouldn’t hurt. What is the “CRS AL Language Extension”? The extension I’m talking about here is a free extension for VSCode that you can use to make your life for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central App Development a little bit easier. The main parts of the extension are: Running objects in windows client…

You must have heard the latest news: Microosft released the first devpreview (on docker) where Business Central is an app, and there is close to no C/AL anymore. Either you might have gotten it from the blog from Microsoft, or Stefano’s blog , where he explained how to build an app for it. I wondered if there was still a way for us to browse the – in this case – the al-code . And even more – would we be able to use the VSCode navigationability (if that’s a word at all) to navigate our code (like “go to definition” and “find references”)? And yes, it is possible :-). Why do you think this…

A while ago (in fact: in July last year), I posted a blog post about the challenges when “ working in Team on apps “. Since then, I have been asked to work on a follow-up post on how we are tackling these challenges in our company today – and if all the assumptions I made also really work. Well, here it goes ;-). But please, I’m not going to explain the challenges again – just read my previous blogpost about it , and then continue with this one ;-). Object Numbers I hate object numbers, and the fact we still need to use them. The dashboard app that I talked about really works. It has been…

Last Directions US and EMEA, I had the opportunity to talk about – uhm – myself. Well, not really – about my tools. It was a weird experience – but it got more attention than I ever expected. Now, during that session, I showed a tool that I wanted to put out there for sooooo long: a way to analyze your C/AL Source Code with PowerShell . This was actually an “let’s see what we can do and how far we can go”-challenge during our free time ;-), where the .Net part (which is the majority of the work) wasn’t done by me, although I was quite (let’s say “overly”) involved with the entire evolution…

Admitted – this is not a lot of new content since my last post – but there are updates since the last one. Also, I wanted to put all repos in a nice clear list. Since my last post, I was contacted by Chris Blank that there actually was another “insider”-repo (for OnPrem images), and he also found a way to get a list of tags of what’s available on them. The latter, I put into a script , so now there are 3 scripts for getting to all tags on the different repos. So, if you haven’t read my previous post , please do (because you’ll find some more information on where to find the proper Docker images…