Eric Wauters

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Microsoft Dynamics 365: 2022 Release Wave 1 plan (Business Central)

The “2022 Release Wave 1” plans are already out there for quite a while – Erik Hougaard already did his video about it – and there are already blogs out there about it – so it’s about time that I do that as well (as I have been doing that for the previous major releases …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/02/15/microsoft-dynamics-365-2022-release-wave-1-plan-business-central/

Multi-line text search in VSCode (with RegEx)

Small post – just because I needed it recently – and it made me think of this little gem that I still had to share: what if you have to search over multiple lines in multiple files in VSCode .. something that actually might happen more than you want to admit. I actually never knew …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/01/31/multi-line-text-search-in-vscode-with-regex/

Happy Holidays!

Hey y’all. I just wanted to send my Holiday wishes to the community I value so much. It’s been another crazy year in terms of the world being upside down by this freaking virus. However, it has also shown us how strong this amazing community is – finding new ways to connect, share insights, or …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2021/12/24/happy-holidays/

The “Universal Code Initiative”

A few months ago, I blogged about a new initiative from Microsoft: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Publisher program. At Directions EMEA, we got more insights to the program. There is still the same focus and intention – but with a different approach and name. I’d like to go more into details on that, as …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2021/12/23/microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-universal-code-initiative/

Contributing to “ALGuidelines.Dev”

I recently blogged about this new initiative .. the revival of the “NAV Design Patterns Wiki”: ALGuidelines.Dev . Time to talk a bit more on how you can contribute. I’m documenting this while I’m writing my very first pattern 😉 (I admit, I had this blogpost laying around for a while ;-)). Disclaimer We do …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2021/12/03/contributing-to-alguidelines-dev/

The “ALGuidelines.Dev” initiative – revival of a diamond

The cat is already out of the bag – since a few days, people already discovered it .. but the plan was to “launch” the initiative today .. so .. here we go .. ;-). As you can see on one of my previous posts – I initially was planning to share a bunch of …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2021/11/19/the-alguidelines-dev-initiative-revival-of-a-diamond/

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 release wave 2 Launch Event

As I mentioned on October 1st – we have a new release: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 release wave 2 is a fact! Since today, Microsoft released the recorded sessions that goes with this release. Earlier releases, we really got an online event, with Q&A capabilities and all. But since this release, we only …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2021/10/18/microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-2021-release-wave-2-launch-event/

AL Development guideline 1: the “NAV Design Patterns Wiki”

Not too long ago, I followed one of Steve Endow’s amazing livestreams where he was talking about BC Coding Guidelines together with Henrik and Jeremy. And what I noticed was that it appeared to be that “coding guidelines” – whatever they are for you – are hard to find – at least if you’re searching …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2021/10/05/al-development-guideline-1-the-nav-design-patterns-wiki/

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 release wave 2 is a fact!

It’s here!  v19 or in other words “Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 release wave 2” is released!   Usually, when Microsoft releases their plans about an upcoming release (like it did some time ago), I create one or more blogs about it.  I didn’t do that for this release.  No particular reason other than time.  …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2021/10/01/microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-2021-release-wave-2-is-a-fact/

Can you “force” VSCode extensions on your team’s PC’s?

You must have seen the launch of Vjeko’s extension: the “AL Object ID Ninja”. If you haven’t, well, let me make your day and show you some resources: AL Object ID Ninja – Vjeko.com AL Object ID Ninja v1.1.0 released – Vjeko.com AL Object ID Ninja – Visual Studio Marketplace vjekob/al-objid: Vjeko.com AL Object ID …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2021/09/17/how-to-force-vscode-extensions-on-your-teams-pcs/