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API Object Generator XML/JSON

Welcome to my blog, where today I am excited to introduce you to a new tool that will make a developer's life easier when working with APIs in Business Central. The API Object Generator is a tool that simplifies the process of generating objects based on…

9 May 2023

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

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…

9 December 2022

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

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…

9 August 2022

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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…

3 May 2022

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

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. Source :…

17 November 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Process large XML without an XMLPort

In this video, I show, not one, not two, but three different ways to process XML data without using an XMLPort. AL now has native XML data types and all three methods use the new data types. Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

2 November 2020