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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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Show Microsoft Translations in VS Code

Show Microsoft Translations 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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9 Tips For Developing Reports in AL

9 Tips For Developing Reports in AL

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Damn it. I gave everything to write 10 tips together, but in the end there were only 9. Reports can drive you to despair in AL. While extensions have been available for tables and pages for a long time, we have to be patient with reports until the following screenshot of a report extension becomes reality. Update 09.06.2023: Finally I can make the 10 tips full. My 10th tip is a special one. Learn in this blogpost how to copy…

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AL Navigator – Visual Studio Code Extension

AL Navigator – Visual Studio Code Extension

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Features My AL Navigator extension for Visual Studio Code enables you to automatically create variables in AL and navigate through .al files with awesome shortcuts. AL Navigator – Create Variables AL Navigator provides a CodeAction for the AL compiler error 118 “The name does not exist in the current context“. This CodeAction enables you to automatically create a local or global variable by using the names of standard objects as well as names of your local workspace files. The extension…

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Automatically Create Procedure Stub / AL Navigator

Automatically Create Procedure Stub / AL Navigator

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Last week I added a new feature to my Visual Studio Code Extension AL Navigator that makes it possible to create a procedure stub in AL. If you have not read my post about that extension yet, you can checkout this link. Here is the link to the newest extension on the VS Code Marketplace. What Does It Do? So what does this new feature do? It implements a functionality that I was strongly missing – detecting a procedure call…

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