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A few days ago, I saw this tweet: Do you need to see current the database size for a company broken down into table sizes? In #MSDyn365BC 2020 release wave 1, you can do that in the new Table Information page. See more: https://t.co/ShGVYnec2g pic.twitter.com/DGHlr5WlME — Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (@MSDYN365BC) May 23, 2020 And that reminded me about a question I had a few weeks ago from my consultants on how to get more object-formation from the Web Client. More in detail: in Belgium, we have 2 languages for a tiny country (NLB, FRB) that differ from the language…

It was quite expected, I guess. After alle the cancellations of Business Central conferences, like NAVTechDays, Directions, Days of Knowledge, .. , Microsoft announced today that they will host a first “Virtual Conference” called “ Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Virtual Event ” and it will be held on June 3rd, 2020 . Be the first to see what’s new in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central—and what it means for you as a partner—at the #MSDyn365BCVirtualEvent #MSDyn365BC on June 3. Register now https://t.co/DGyspicERq pic.twitter.com/948Jq2qibz — Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business…

Remember my blog post on “ Multi-root workspaces in VSCode for AL Development “? If not – it might be interesting to read first, because this is in fact an “extension” (get it?) on it .. so you might say this blogpost “depends” on that one ;-). I concluded the post with some scripts – and that’s the part I’d like to extend a bit – because I needed more functionality since latest blogpost. And I’d like to refer to these scripts again – and tell you a bit more on how they could make your life a bit easier as well .. . Branching The main part that I extended is the “Git”-part. And…

Remember this post? Probably not. Nearly a year ago at Directions US , I showed some “how did I do stuff” during a number of sessions. And it ended with a lot of feedback, which came down to: “can I have it”? So, that’s where I wrote a post “ I have work to do ” ;-). The “DevOps”-part of the work is done: ALOps is available and well used :-). But the second promise – the “Dependency Analysis”, I only completed in November 2019 – and totally forgot to blog about it.  In my defense – I did explain it at NAVTechDays, and that video IS online.  You can find it here: NAV TechDays 2019 …

You remember this post ? I tried to warn you that when v16 comes out, there will be a new code rule that will check your filenames – and you’ll have to (if you don’t disable it) comply with the file name convention of Microsoft. If you don’t automate your file naming, then you’re in for some .. uhm .. challenges. I just made sure that the automation of the filenames complied with Microsoft’s rules .. . I need to correct my store in that post though. I had been working on this “RenameWithGit” setting, which didn’t work with multiroot workspaces and had some other stability problems. Only after…

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…