Eric Wauters

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Developing Business Central Extensions/Apps in Team

I picked up a new challenge these days: for one of our (quite big) customers, we need to develop a solution, based on extensions. In short: ready for the future, easy to upgrade. When I would explain the case in a paragraph, you’d say “this is not NAV”, although when you would really look deep …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2018/07/11/developing-business-central-extensionsapps-in-team/

CRS AL Language Extension – File Management

Time for the next round of functionality I added in my VSCode Extension (the CRS AL Language Extension) – a functionality that manages your filenames (and pre/suffix). Hold your horses – this is going to be a long one ;-). You don’t want to know how many hours I spent on this functionality – many …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2018/07/03/crs-al-language-extension-file-management/

AL Code Analysis Rules (Diagnostic Descriptors) – Updated

  You might remember my post about the Code Analyzers Diagnostic Descriptors when it first came out. I’m very happy with this tool, as it avoids many mistakes, and it enforces some level of clean coding – which is never a bad thing ;-). Recently, the June update of the AL Language Extension was announced. …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2018/06/27/al-code-analysis-rules-diagnostic-descriptors-updated/

Are you “Ready To Go”?

Lately I have been involved in a program from Microsoft that I personally think is really useful. That useful that I’m spending my only spare time at a pool (and not in it) in Bangkok to tell you about it. The Ready To Go Program If you are a partner for Dynamics NAV, you must …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2018/06/25/are-you-ready-to-go/

CRS Al Language Extension – Running Objects

As said in one of my previous posts, I was going to do some “deeper” description of the functionality of the tool that I’m working on to make your “AL”-life in VSCODE a little bit easier: the “CRS AL Language Extension“. Today: the “Running Objects” functionality This was the first major feature that I tried …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2018/06/19/crs-al-language-extension-running-objects/

Function Overloading in AL

I haven’t been blogging much, lately. But in my defence – I put quite some time in another community project, which I blogged about in my previous post (and will blog about in quite a few coming posts…). To keep up the pace of writing at least one post each month (which I have been …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2018/05/29/function-overloading-in-al/

CRS Al Language Extension

I have been wanting to write this blog for a while. But I’m going to keep it a short one, as I’d like to go into a few topics separately, and I don’t want to swallow too much in one big blogpost with the possibility with some (important?) details would get lost. Thing is – …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2018/04/18/crs-al-language-extension/

Al Code Analysis Rules (Diagnostic Descriptors)

Since my last blog about the new Code Analysis for Al development, I have been wondering what rules Microsoft actually applies in which Code Analyzer. My good friend an colleague is all into decompiling and reflecting – and he helped my find my way to the object model that Microsoft creates for the Source Code …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2018/04/05/al-code-analysis-rules-diagnostic-descriptors/

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business central – Resources

Question. Have you heard about something called “Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central”? If not, you must have been sleeping. Because it has been all over.  And it’s going to be released today! Something new, also means new documentation. And I have been drowning in resources on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Allow me to try …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2018/04/02/microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-resources/

Enable the updated Code Analysis for AL

Some time ago, I wrote a blogpost on how to enable code analysis for AL development. At that point, it was an undocumented feature – not to say, it was an unfinished feature that you could already enable. Since the developer preview March update, it is officially here, and things have somewhat changed – no, …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2018/03/26/enable-the-updated-code-analysis-for-al/