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Show Microsoft Translations When Hovering Over Field Names in VS Code

Show Microsoft Translations When Hovering Over Field Names in VS Code

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This post is especially interesting for the people whose native language is not English. Do you know the feeling? You are looking at the source code of some .al object and you come across a field name that means absolutely nothing to you. It would be helpful for you if you could see the translation of this field name into your native language. Often this is already sufficient. In the old C/SIDE client we had the field “Caption” in the…

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

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

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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…

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Most Useful Business Central Repositories & Apps

Most Useful Business Central Repositories & Apps

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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…

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My 8 Favorite Rather Unknown VS Code Extensions for AL

My 8 Favorite Rather Unknown VS Code Extensions for AL

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More and more developers are venturing their first bold steps into AL terrain. Gone are the days when dinosaurs could move on safe C/AL ground and look forward to new developments in a cheerful and leisurely manner. With the move to the VS Code development environment and the AL programming language, we as a developer community have the opportunity to adapt VS Code to our needs. Innovations in the AL area are happening faster and faster, new extensions are sprouting…

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Top Blog Posts of 2021

Top Blog Posts of 2021

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First of all, I wish you all a great year 2022. It’s been a while since I last wrote a blog post here because I’ve been making my hands dirty with another blog project. Besides, I started working as a freelancer in July which I wanted to focus on in the last months. I always found it very interesting to see which posts were the most popular on other blogs. For me it was very surprising to see which blog…

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