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AL Code Management with GIT (Part 1)

Probably most of you heard about AL code management with GIT, which is one of the most popular tools for this purpose. As you know, in the previous versions of NAV, you could use GIT, but in most cases, you needed some third party Addin. With…

5 December 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Organizing your .al files

This blog post is primarily directed towards partners who wants to do AL code customization in Microsoft Dynamics 365 2019 release wave 2. Even though the tools can be used for extension development as well, typically people working on extensions already have organized their files. Source…

7 August 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How do I: Create a timeline in a report dataset in AL?

A question I got recently was, how can I visualize or create a dataset that can show/fetch information on a timeline? For example, I have a time-sheet and want to visualize the hours employees worked at certain projects, per day, week, month, year, and so on.…

31 July 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics 365 Business Central AL Automated Tests: How to Start?

Like any other code, AL code can be flawed and break during refactoring. To prevent manual testing, each time you make the smallest change in code, it is necessary to write Dynamics 365 Business Central AL automated tests. Dynamics 365 Business Central AL automated tests are…

22 July 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

AL Extension Pack for VSCode

Some time ago, after explaining my most used VSCode Extensions for AL Development for (about) the 829th time – I decided to make my life a bit easier. I already came across the concept of creating a VSCode Extension that act like packages that automatically install…

12 July 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

CRS AL Language Extension – ControlNames are no longer surrounded by double quotes

There is a recent change that I had to introduce in the CRS AL Language Extension – you know, that tiny little VSCode Extension that quite a lot of you seem to be using ;-). +89000 downloads/+21500 installs – that’s crazy! It’s one of my biggest…

3 July 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Uplift Data from C/Side objects to an AL extension

One of the biggest headaches right now, is the missing feature for move data from a C/AL table to an extension table without having to do export and import, RapidStart Packages or other funky operations. The idea behind my method is to avoid too much data…

19 June 2019