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Events

DynamicsCon 2021! It’s official!

I’m so glad that my session “AL Language: Coding for performance v2” ranked 6th from all 289 sessions. Today, the final conference agenda has been published, including my session! See the whole agenda on the official web sides: https://dynamicscon.com/agenda/. The conference takes place from 20th to 23rd of September 2021! You can register for the event

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AL Language

Field Level Permissions (Restricted Fields)

I just add a new project to my GitHub repositories. It is a new extension for Business Central that extends security functionalities with field-level permission. Using this extension, users are able to define who can or can not change specific fields in any table in your system. Source codes can be found on GitHub –

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Featured

New blog layout

After three years, I decided to refresh this blog with a new, custom made layout. The layout has been online only since 22.06. so please excuse any formatting issues in old posts. I will update and fix all posts in the upcoming days.

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AL Language

How to install Business Central (developer) preview version

In the last weeks, I got some questions about installing the developer’s preview version (the Insider build) of the Business Central. This version is available through Artifacts for docker similarly to standard versions; however, they are available only for Microsoft’ partners. If you are a partner, you can find your access code directly in the

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Major

D365 Business Central database capacity changes valid from the 1st of July

On the Virtual Launch Event for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Release Wave 1, the major changes to the cloud-based version (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Online) have been introduced. The changes are not active yet; they will be effective from the 1st of July 2021. The major problem for migrating from the On-Premise

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AL Language

Forget Confirm() method; start with Confirm Management module

For a long time, if we wanted to get input from the user to confirm something, we used Confirm() method. This method is straightforward – it has two parameters (+ unlimited number of constant values similar to StrSubstNo() method). The first one accepts text shown to the user, the second one (optional) defines which button

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AL Language

Returning complex types in AL Language

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 w1 (released in May 2021), a profound change was introduced to ways how we can design our applications Until this version, the only way to return complex data types (like records, codeunits, Lists etc.) was using the var parameter (see example below). trigger OnRun() var SalesHeader: Record “Sales Header”; begin

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Events

Next conf session: DynamicsCon 2021

The next Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central conference has just been planned, and I already sent a submission for my session! Link to the submission: AL Language: Coding for performance v2 and yes, I am no longer part of a rookie speakers track 😉 ) The conference takes place from 20th to 23rd of September

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AL ID Range Manager

ALRM: AL ID Range Manager has been updated!

I have just released a new version of ALRM extensions for VS Code as well as for Business Central. The latest versions are available for download on my GitHub and also directly in VS Code marketplace for free for any developers in AL Language. And what is new? – VS Code ALRM Changelog – D365

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