February 2021 – Page 2

Look Mom, I’m doing Git and AL without the command prompt!

In this video, I show how to get started on using Git with AL and Business Central. This is Git for (git)beginners. Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

22 February 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Revitalize your Delegate Admins

Over the last year or so, we have seen “random” cases, where one delegate admin suddenly was unable to log into one specific Business Central tenant on the cloud. The usual remedy is that we create extra users in our AAD that are only used for…

19 February 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Working with Duration Data Type

Recently, I was asked how to change the output format of Duration data type, how to convert the unit to hours or minutes, etc. So, today I would like to briefly discuss Duration data type in Business Central. Source : Dynamics 365 Lab Read more...

18 February 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Removing all specific NAV and Business Central Docker Images

On October 27th 2017, I posted the first announcement which introduced NAV on Docker. For approx. 3 years we published Docker images first to Docker Hub and later to Microsoft Container Registry for both Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019. Many 1000 images was pushed…

17 February 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Regain control of your design extensions

In this video, I show how to start aggregating your design extensions into a single extension that’s managed with Visual Studio Code. This is a great way for customers consultants to get started with development and a great method for customers to organize the chaos. Source…

16 February 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

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…

15 February 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics 365 Business Central: returning complex types from AL

I think that every AL developer dreams that a day AL will be a full Object Oriented programming language like C# or others. Unfortunately, AL is born from C/AL and its main purpose is to write business logic inside a business application like an ERP in…

15 February 2021