My session at NAV Tech Days this year was together with Nikola Kukrika and we did an end 2 end walk-through of how to upgrade a code customized C/AL solution in 14.x to 15.x (AL), converting the code, upgrading the data, explaining all the pitfalls and in some cases, how to cope with missing functionality.
Tag Archives: C/AL
How To: Correct the Issue of the Microsoft Business Central Developer Environment Crashing While Opening the C/AL Editor
When you’re developing in C/AL in Business Central/NAV 2018, you might run into this issue: You want to edit the code in an object through the Developer Environment, and the Application automatically crashes or closes without displaying an error message. This occurs when you open a Codeunit or click on C/AL editor in a Page/Table, and it occurs only when you are designing the object and go to C/AL code by hitting F9.
C/AL Source Code Analysis with PowerShell
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 of it ;-). The tool might not be completely new to you. I have been using it for quite some time to talk about some things within the product, like:
MSDYN365BC – Futuristic CAL Development – UnBoxing Page Trigger Event
With this article, I will try to clarify all doubts and questions about Page Trigger Events.
This will help Developers to subscribe to Page Trigger Events. Let’s discuss that in details.
Export C/AL objects as AL from a database on a docker container on a remote host
As you might have figured in quite some sessions, threads and posts, I’m quite fond running docker images on a remote Hyper-V on my laptop. From the moment it was described by Arend Jan, I’m using it. In my opinion, it’s a much better way to run, because Windows Server is so much better in memory management as Windows 10 is (in regards of Docker that is).
Procedure to create custom folders in a specific location using C/AL code in Dynamics NAV
In this article I will be giving the procedure to create custom folders according to the posting date of the posted sales invoices on the click of an action.
How to: Access timestamp from C/AL
How to access timestamp from C/AL? When you Google/Bing this question, you mainly get three answers:
1.Short answer: you can’t,
2.Write a SQL query using ADO.NET,
3.Create a SQL view and use a linked table on NAV,