November 2020 – Page 4

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using snapshot debugging

One of the top requested features for Dynamics 365 Business Central from a long time is absolutely one: debugging the production environment! And now you can 🙂 Dynamics 365 Business Central version 17 introduces a feature called Snapshot Debugging. Snapshot Debugging allows a delegated admin to…

12 November 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Facade Pattern in Business Central – AL Language

Facade Pattern is a Design Pattern to hide complexity of the multiple sub systems by providing a simple interface to the client. This pattern involves a single codeunit which provides simple methods required by the client and delegates call to methods of existing internal codeunits. Source…

11 November 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Authentication worries with AL and cloud sandboxes?

If you have seen in my videos, quite often, I’m having issues with authentication when deploying to a cloud sandbox. Well, not really problems authenticating, more a problem of “over authenticating”. For every deployment, I often have to authenticate twice. Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

10 November 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Visualize app.json dependencies in VSCode (using GraphViz)

If you’ve been following the latest and greatest from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you must be aware about “what’s cooking in Microsoft’s Lab“. In short, Microsoft is working on a possibility to generate a DGML file for your extension that you’re compiling. A DGML file…

10 November 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Substituting a Report in Business Central

Today,I came with widely used feature of business central.Contrary to pages and tables, extensibility is not yet supported for report objects in Business Central. Therefore, if you want to make any changes to the dataset or the layout of a base application report, you must create…

9 November 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How about Rollback in AL?

I’ve never truly understood why we could explicitly commit a transaction, but we could only implicitly roll one back. There is a universe of difference between throwing an error (and ending the call stack), and rolling back (and continuing execution). There was always a way to…

9 November 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Upgrade to Business Central V17 (part 1) – The Workflow

Recently, we have been going through upgrading our 65 apps to the newest release (v17). You might wonder: upgrade? Wasn’t this supposed to be seemless? Well, let me explain what we did, how we handle stuff internally – and then maybe it does make sense to…

6 November 2020