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Organizing Code for a Seamless Transition from C/AL to Extensions in AL: Part 2

This is the second part of the blog post “Organizing Code for a Seamless Transition from C/AL to Extensions in AL", where we walk you through some of the steps you can take to organize the code in the existing C/AL coding language before the transition.…

8 June 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Organizing Code for a Seamless Transition from C/AL to Extensions in AL: Part 1

Since Business Central 2019 release wave 2 (version 15), the application has become completely AL-based. All functionality that modifies standard business logic must be moved into an Extension. This change influences how upgrades are performed and impacts all the solutions that are still in C/AL, making…

8 June 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How to Debug an Extension Using Visual Studio Code

This is the second part of a two-part blog series on how to set up an Extension development environment using Visual Studio code. In this article, we will continue to detail how to set up the environment in order to be able to debug an Extension.…

3 June 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Using tables instead of table extensions

Recently James Crowter wrote an excellent article about table extensions and how they affect performance. In short, table extensions are great for flexibility and ease of development, but performance decreases when the number of table extensions is adding up. Especially when table extensions are used for…

12 May 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Changes to authenticating AL Language Extension in VS Code Development Environment for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

As I upgraded my Business Central AL Language Extension and VS Code, I noticed that I was no longer authenticated to deploy my app to Business Central Sandbox using (Ctrl + F5). So I noticed a process change in authenticating VS Code and Business Central and…

10 April 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

New Command in My CRS AL Language Extension: Search Object Names

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…

31 March 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Test Tool Extension

When working on getting the standard tests running on our solution the standard Test Tool was not making our live as easy as it could. Wanting to rerun only successful or failing tests, this was near to impossible. Manually deselecting individual tests turning of the Run…

20 March 2020