Eric Wauters

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Convert C/AL Objects to AL with PowerShell

If you are a NAV developer, you probably have heard about the upcoming “New Developer Tools”. And if you didn’t, it’s very much time for you to catch up with the readings about this, like: the Getting Started article the Developer Reference Follow the blogs Read and contribute on GitHub And when you read this …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2017/05/05/convert-cal-objects-to-al-with-powershell/

PowerShots 2017 just kicked off

I’m sitting in the plane, after I just kicked off my first PowerShot for NAV2017 in Sweden. It was not “the first” PowerShot of this year, because Vjeko actually started one day before me in Norway :-). What are PowerShots? You might have read from previous years that we (Cloud Ready Software) have been “touring” …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2017/04/28/powershots-2017-just-kicked-off/

Stored Procedures on a NAV database?

Recently, I came across a customer, where a partner had implemented some Stored Procedures on a Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 database. Now, for any change on SQL level that comes to my ears, my first reaction is always “Nooooooooo“. Or as a pictures tells more than a thousand words: First thing I did was googling …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2017/04/11/stored-procedures-on-a-nav-database/

Directions ASIA and NAVUG Summit EMEA

It’s not conference season and yet .. I have never been this busy during this part of the year for conferences. That must mean that new stuff (conferences that is..) is coming up. Let’s spend a very short blogpost on what’s coming up for me.. Directions ASIA In fact, at this very moment, I’m on …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2017/03/22/directions-asia-and-navug-summit-emea/

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Source Code Analysis – Triggers & Procedures

On my last blogpost on Source Code Analysis (which focused on the LineCount), I got the remark whether it would be interesting to drill into “statements”. I didn’t really know what he meant with it – but it made me think and drill down into the usage of the procedures. You might remember we talked …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2017/03/09/microsoft-dynamics-nav-source-code-analysis-triggers-procedures/

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Source Code Analysis – LineCount

Recently, I came across this nice graph: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/ . Pretty cool to see the comparison. But – obviously – the next question for us Microsoft Dynamics NAV developers is: How many lines of code does Microsoft Dynamics NAV contain? Good question .. and an interesting one. I always told people things like “it’s not easy …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2017/03/02/microsoft-dynamics-nav-source-code-analysis-linecount/

Manage Web Services in Extensions

At this moment, I’m working on an Extension for Dynamics 365. One of the requirements is basically “publish an interface to an external packet”. In other words: “publish a bunch of web services”. Now, I’m always trying to find the “best practice” for different circumstances. That’s also why I’m so deep into PowerShell – I …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2017/02/23/manage-web-services-in-extensions/

Make the New Developer Tools available on a local machine

On Twitter, Mark Brummel was wondering on how we would be able to get this wonderful new DEV environment locally, to be able to play with whenever we don’t have an Internet Connection. Well .. by coincidence, I had been trying to wrap my head around that a few weeks ago .. but never wrote …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2017/02/20/make-the-new-developer-tools-available-on-a-local-machine/

How to find Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV?

You might have noticed, I stopped updating the platform updates. I hope you don’t mind ;-). It just didn’t make any sense anymore when Microsoft moved it to a different location.. . The main reason why I was providing that on my blog, was the “googleability” of the content the updates. All was published on …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2017/02/10/how-to-find-cumulative-updates-for-microsoft-dynamics-nav/

NAVTechDays 2016: Final thoughts

It’s been a while since NAV TechDays. And for a while I was thinking to skip the blogpost on how the latest NAV TechDays has been.. . But then again – the convention is without doubt the best one around for NAV developers, while it’s still “just” a private initiative from Luc – so it …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2017/01/24/navtechdays-2016-final-thoughts/