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Indeed – I didn’t see any official statement yet – but it’s obvious, v16 is the current latest MS release .. and if you don’t believe me – just check Docker (the latest “current” release is already v16 – docker image “mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem”) … I’m not going to bore you with what is already online – I will simply point you to the resources I could find today: Dynamics 365: plan voor wave 1 van 2020 What’s new and planned for 365 Business Central Business Central on Docs Business Central on Learn The download link for Wave 1 (still under construction when writing…

Recently, I came across this post by Jack Mallender .  An interesting idea on how to efficiently find AL Objects among your files. It basically comes down to using regex in combination with the global search functionality in VSCode, like (yep, I’m stealing this from Jack’s post – sorry, Jack ;-)): It immediately convinced me that this would be very useful for everyone, so I was thinking – why not making it part of “ waldo’s CRS AL Language Extension “? It didn’t seem too difficult for the experienced TypeScript developer – so for a noob like me, it should be do-able as well ;-). A few…

Not too long ago, I did a webinar for ALOps .  The idea of these webinars is simple: how can you get started with DevOps for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central .  And I’m not going to lie: I will focus on doing that with ALOps .  But that’s not the only focus of these videos – I will touch lots of stuff that has nothing to do with ALOps, but more like strategies, simple “how to’s” and so on – which should be interesting to anyone that is trying to set up DevOps in any way.  The webinars will end up on YouTube , and in the description of the video, I will try to give an overview of the handled…

You probably know about the twitter hashtag “ bcalhelp ” .. A way for you to ask help on twitter about anything AL for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Well – yesterday, it made me smile … there was someone that was trying to find something on Vjeko’s blog .  Pretty clever to use the bcalhelp for it :-), because he immediately got response.  Here is the twitter thread (if you can call a question/answer a thread ;-)): There is no search button indeed. Try with /s?=[criteria] ending, like this: https://t.co/OvDpITUHsW — Marton Sagi (@sagimarton) March 4, 2020 You…

You might have figured – I’m a VSCode fanboy. One of many. You might remember the session I did on NAVTechDays 2017 ( Rock ‘n Roll with VSCode ), where I dove quite a bit into the possibilities this great tool comes with. But I didn’t talk about the concept of “Multi-root Workspaces”: an ability of VSCode for you to work on multiple “projects” at the same time, in one environment. 2 years later, last NAVTechDays, I talked about Dependencies quite a lot, and when you think of it – in terms of dependencies in AL for Business Central, these “Multi-root Workspaces” might make a lot of sense…

NAVTechDays is already over for a while .. and yes, I already blogged about it . But I recently had to refer to a part of my session on “Development Methodologies” , and I noticed that someone named “Marcus Nordlund” actually put quite some time to completely “menutize” the video in the comment section of the video :-). Awesome effort that I needed to share! Thanks, Marcus! Here it is: Future 3:08 Development methodologies 3:52 Don’tNet 4:04 Embracing Depencies 4:43 Strict Guidelines 5:26 No Test, no approval 6:01 Extendable patterns 7:13 Avoid Breaking changes 8:23 When i’ts hard…

As you probably already picked up in the media – Microsoft has released its plans for Wave 1 release (in April) for this year. You can find all the information here: https://aka.ms/Dynamics365ReleasePlan . The document contains all the information on all we want to know regarding “what’s next” for all related applications, like Marketing, Customer Service, Field Service, …. and also our beloved “Business Central”. And since this is a blog about Business Central – let’s focus on … Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central The Microsoft Docs endpoint that has all information on Business…

I recently blogged about how to rename files with my VSCode Extension to comply with the new filename conventions from Microsoft . Somewhat related to that, we need to talk about … Pre- or Suffixing It’s been known for a while: pre-or suffixing is necessary to “live in the cloud”. It prevents duplicate names in various places: duplicate table names, duplicate field names .. things like that. It is actually very well described on Microsoft Docs here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/compliance/apptest-prefix-suffix . In short: you need to pre…

I did a poll recently during one of my sessions – and I was surprised that about half of the people don’t regularly use “snippets” in VSCode.. . Well, some of you probably know that I’m a big fan of snippets. Whoever has joined one of my sessions of the last couple of years where I was talking about VSCode, or was working with VSCode .. most probably, I was talking about, showing or using snippets. Honestly, I can’t live my life in VSCode without snippets. It would be so much less efficient .. . VSCode wouldn’t be much more than a notepad that is hooked up with Source Control in that…

First of all, this is my first post of this new year, so I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all the best and happiness for 2020! Last year, I did a post on my new hobby “3D Printing” . Well, now we’re a year later, I’m still printing almost full time 24/7, so let me wish you all the best with some 3D Printed goodies I did for Xmas ;-). So now – “let’s get started” with .. Why would I rename all my AL-files? Well – because of Microsoft and their new (upcoming) code analysis rule about file name conventions. You might already have complied with their previous conventions…