Business Central Deep Dive

VS Code: Keep Your Code Clean by Running Extension Commands on Save

2022-08-17 Waldemar Brakowski Comments 88 comments

There are many VS Code Extensions that make our lives as developers easier. If I think of the AL programming language, for example, they help us with the following things: Replace missing brackets Correct the casing of words Sort fields in tables …and the list could go on forever. That’s why I thought a while back that it would actually be cool to automatically execute a few of these commands when I save a file in Visual Studio Code. The…

Most Useful Business Central Repositories & Apps

2022-02-18 Waldemar Brakowski Comments 19 comments

There are a lot of very useful repositories out there with useful apps and information for Business Central. Unfortunately, it is hard to keep track of all of them or to even know of the existence of these repositories. For this reason, I decided to create a repository with a readme file that contains many useful repositories…a bit like the developer version of what Steve Endow does with his list of information and resources. Feel free to contribute to this…

Boost Your Productivity with AL/BC

2019-12-16 Waldemar Brakowski Comments 11 comments

When I started out programming with AL in Visual Studio Code, everything seemed to take really long. Over the years I have become quite familiar with C/SIDE and C/AL, but developing in AL was a whole new thing. I did many things in a stupid and slow way, because I simply did not know a better way. This is how life works I guess. First you do it in a stupid way. Then you hopefully learn from your mistakes. Finally…