Today I have released a new version of both the ALRM (AL ID Range Manager) extension for Visual Studio Code and Microsoft Business Central. If you do not know what ALRM is, check some of previous articles here on my blog. Both extensions are available on my GitHub...
Last week, I saw a question about importing data from Excel file to Business Central using AL Language. A few years ago, the only solution was to use DotNet integration. However, with the Business Central, there is a much quicker and better approach. All functions for...
In today’s beginner series article, we will look at how to create a basic entity such as Item, Customer, Vendor etc. Creating basic entities is one of the core things anyone has to know. It is also necessary to know which properties must be defined (LookupPageID,...
One of the news in AL Language that is coming with the upcoming major version (Business Central 2021 W1) in April is a new trigger AnAfterLookup. The new trigger is described on Microsoft Docs (however, the description is still a bit confusing…). As the Lookups are...
In today's beginner series article, we will look at Snippets in AL Language. What are snippets? How can we use them? What is the reason to know how to use them/when to use them? All these questions are answered in the video below! https://youtu.be/XIhSNkUdewc
The first article from my new youtube channel is here (if you want to find out why I have decided to start my own youtube channel, see here)! This is the very first video for beginners - how to create a new AL project. In this video, we will look at how to create a...
It is only four months since the last major version of the Business Central (2020 wave 2) has been released, and we can already look forward to another version that will be released in April. Microsoft has already provided the list of planned and confirmed...
AL ID Range Manager is VS Code & Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions made for developers who need to manage their object/field IDs across multiple projects (or in the multi-developers environment). Source codes are available online on GitHub...
Right now, the only official Microsoft exam & certification for the Business Central (details of MB800 exam and details of certification) is in the full version! After more than 4 months when the exam was in beta version, Microsoft just switched the exam and...
This is another article about Partial Records (as we already discussed earlier in the article about Partial Records and later in the first part of articles about partial record's performance). In this article, we will explore the ration between performance, partial...
I am glad to announce that the very first version of AL ID Range Manager is available for everyone on Visual Studio Code Marketplace! AL ID Range Manager is an extension for VS Code that helps with managing AL objects between developers who are working on the same...
Just a quick reminder that my session about mobile development for Business Central is today on BC TechTalk at 17:00 on track 1!
Finally, it is here! Another conference about Business Central is here and due to COVID-19, it's online and totally free. Check all amazing sessions from best speakers from the Business Central world. The agenda is on the web HERE. And if you are interested in mobile...
Partial Records in the Business Central are a new technology in 2020 wave 2 release. Let's look at the quick description in one of the posts from previous month "Partial Records". Now check it in more details. In this first part, we will look at how the partial...
I have a session on the upcoming online conference BC Tech Talks about an exciting topic - Build your own mobile app for Business Central! Event for the Technical BC PeopleBC TechTalk is a 2 day FREE online summit for the technical Business Central people: developers,...
Partial Records are a new capability of Business Central introduced in Business Central 2020 release wave 2. It allows specifying fields that should be loaded when accessing SQL based data. How does it work? Without using partial records, Business Central normally...
With the last update of Analyzers Rules, there are some new issues with warnings. This is not a comprehensive list of all bugs but contains information about problems that I found on projects that I am working on / managing. General Analyzer Rules AL0604 (for Runtimes...
This chapter we will continue with the project that we created before. The project could be found on GitHub. Now when we have a runnable app with homepage and standardized navigation, we can look on how to load data using REST. We will start with the basic example of...
