Eric Wauters

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Reusable Bugs

You must have heard about the Dynamics NAV Design Patterns initiative already. It has been mentioned numerous times on conferences and on blogs. Recently, I was happy to work together with the team on what is in my opinion one of the most important Microsoft Dynamics NAV Design Patterns, what we call “Reusable Bugs“. It …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/04/01/reusable-bugs/

Platform updates overview – NAV 2015

Here you go – once again an updated list on the platform updates of NAV 2015. Enjoy! Version Build No. KB number Info NAV 2015 RTM 37874   CU1 38457 3013215 Cumulative update 1 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 (Build 38457) The Windows client crashes after pressing ALT+TAB. Promoted actions jump to the initial ribbon …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/03/18/platform-updates-overview-nav-2015-2/

Platform updates overview – NAV 2013 (R2)

Here you go – once again an updated list on the platform updates of NAV 2013 (R2). The list for 2015 will follow shortly.  By the way .. I’m not going to continue to emphasize the “newly added issues” in the list (my making them yellow and italic), as this has too limited added value.. . …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/03/18/platform-updates-overview-nav-2013-r2-3/

Start Dynamics NAV Development Client (C/SIDE) from PowerShell

Now when we’re at it .. It might be interesting to also start a development client from PowerShell. Why would it be? Well, just suppose you’re creating a merge-script. And in case of conflicts, you want to: Set up a new database Import the merged objects, including conflicts Open the Development Environment to start solving …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/03/01/start-dynamics-nav-development-client-cside-from-powershell/

Start Dynamics NAV Windows Client (RTC) from PowerShell

After my sessions during “conference season”, I promised to blog about my scripts. I decided to do this on small pieces of scripts .. and this one is so useful, though I only realised it was useful until I wanted to do a gimmick during a script. I’m actually using it all the time now …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/02/20/start-dynamics-nav-windows-client-rtc-from-powershell/

Get a specific Dynamics NAV Server Setting with PowerShell (a better Get-NAVServerConfiguration)

You might remember this blogpost: NAV 2013 R2: Powershell function to check if ServerInstance is Multitenant or not. It was a small tip on how to check a certain setting. Recently I was working on a script, where I needed some other serversettings, and looking back on the way I was doing the above .. …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/02/10/get-a-specific-dynamics-nav-server-setting-with-powershell-a-better-get-navserverconfiguration/

Remove a “Dynamics NAV Web Client” (Remove-NAVWebServerInstance)

You might have run into this .. trying to remove a Web Server Instance, but not finding a corresponding PowerShell commandlet for that. As you know, there are LOADS of PowerShell commandlets for server administration. But in the list, there is not a “Remove-NAVWebServerInstance”. This list kind of prooves it: Is it forgotten? I don’t …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/02/03/remove-a-dynamics-nav-web-client-remove-navwebserverinstance/

NAV2015: MODIFYALL behaviour on SQL Server

I’ve just spent an evening on something that I noticed earlier in one of my projects that wasn’t clear to me. And when you don’t understand something? You write blogposts, right? You might have figured from the title .. It was regarding the MODIFYALL. Now, long time ago – in 2008 – I wrote a …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/01/21/nav2015-modifyall-behaviour-on-sql-server/

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Coding Guidelines

It was announced a while back (if I’m not mistaken at NAVTechDays), but today, they are officially published on the NAV Design Patterns Wiki, as anounced by Mark Brummel. Coding guidelines are important .. and they have been there for a long time at Microsoft. One might wonder why it took about 25 years to …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/01/08/microsoft-dynamics-nav-coding-guidelines/

Happy New Year (and a few more things…)

Small little post to wish you all the best in 2015 (and all the years to come, of course .. not only 2015 :-)). May the best moments in 2014 be the worst in 2015! Always liked that sentence :-). There are a few (very different) things that I would like to mention .. Mainstream …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/01/07/happy-new-year-and-a-few-more-things/