Dynamics 365 Business Central – Create an XML File in AL

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a standard for encoding documents and is used to structure data for storage and transport. XML files are just plain text files that use custom tags to describe the structure and features of the document. Many describe the file’s structure as self-descriptive and intended to be both human and machine-readable.

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Working with SOAP API and XML in AL. Generic API codeunit.

The purpose of this post is to learn the basics of working with XML and SOAP in AL. Besides, we’ll look at my suggestion of the generic API method SendRequest(), which fits most APIs without authorization. The authorization itself is not difficult to add to the general logic, but in the post, they are not considered due to their large number and often unique logic

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Export SQL data to CSV or XML File via Powershell

Sometimes it may be useful or necessary to use powershell to read data from SQL Server to export it to other formats This can also be used with older versions of Dynamics NAV which do not have access to the integrated powershell. Using standard powershell commands it is possible for example to read an SQL view and export it to CSV or XML file.

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Report Inspector 2.0 – How to export your report dataset as Excel, XML or Windows client style

Today’s post covers some programming that is not of my own making. My colleague Andreas Rascher has built a damn cool functionality that allows you to export the dataset of RDLC reports in different formats. Since we think the functionality is extremely useful, we didn’t want to keep it from you.

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How to add XML comments in AL Code :- Business Central

With the release of Business Central Wave 1 2020 XML comments is available in AL code.

If you would like to add documentation to your code then you can use XML documentation .The documentation comment must immediately before the object such as codeunit,table,functions etc.

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