Top Blog Posts of 2021

Top Blog Posts of 2021

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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Admin Toolbox 3.0 – Integrated Table Editor and License Warnings for Test Environments (Must Have for OnPrem Installations)

Admin Toolbox 3.0 – Integrated Table Editor and License Warnings for Test Environments (Must Have for OnPrem Installations)

Some of you may remember that I created a very powerful Admin Toolbox for Business Central OnPrem installations. This toolbox provided you with functions to delete records, view or import licenses and publish + install apps. There was one thing on the to do list for the app that was still missing: a table editor that let’s you modify or delete single records or a selection of records. Luckily, a very competent developer and former colleague Yuri Mishin developed this…

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Areopa Webinar: VS Code AL Extensions

Areopa Webinar: VS Code AL Extensions

Last week David Feldhoff (AL CodeActions), Andrzej Zwierzchowski (AZ AL Dev Tools) and me (AL Navigator) presented our VS Code Extensions in the Areopa webinar series “VS Code AL Extensions”. Find the recording with timestamp below. This was the first of four sessions. I bet everyone can learn some new things in these sessions, so you better not miss them. A good craftsman should know his tools. Thanks to Luc van Vugt for having us. If you haven’t already, go…

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Show Microsoft Translations in VS Code

Show Microsoft Translations in VS Code

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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