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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

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Can you explain this Docker thing?

Quite often I have been asked to explain Docker. In my videos I usually deploy my extensions to a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central running on Docker, but what does it actually mean? In this video, I create a Docker container “from scratch” using the brilliant…

30 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

One Mighty Little Event

In this video, I look at how to change Business Central posting behaviour by subscribing to an event and write a single line of code. Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

26 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Walkthrough: AL Extension on Docker Desktop

Follow this detailed guide to set up your first Business Central development environment with BC Container Helper and publish an AL extension to it. Source : Alex Shirokikh's Blog Read more...

26 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

AL Dependency and AppSource Apps

In this video, I talk about how to use objects from AppSource in a Per-Tenant-Extension (aka a customization). Even though AppSource apps are distributed by Microsoft you can still use them as normal apps and use the objects within as normal objects (because they are). Source…

23 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Business Central Execute Queries from Pages

With the QueryCategory property we can execute a query object from a page (also available in Smartlists) by defining a query in AL; it is possible to declare with a comma separated list where the object can be used, in practice it is added to the…

22 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

The Rules Pattern in Business Central – AL Language

The Rules Pattern is a Design Pattern to simplify the complex business logic which is based on multiple if-else statements. Using this Design Pattern each if-else branch in the business logic is segregated into a separate rules and also the processing logic is separated from the…

21 October 2020