This is the second post of the blog post series “Boost Your Productivity with AL and Business Central”. If you want to know more about what this series is about and why I created it, you can checkout this post. Today’s post will be a very short one. I will show you how you can use Todo Tree by Gruntfuggly and TODO Highlight by Wayou Liu to track the Todos in your VS Code Project. Sometimes you are in a…
This is the first post of the blog post series “Boost Your Productivity with AL and Business Central”. If you want to know more about what this series is about and why I created it, you can checkout this post. Today’s post will feature the AL Variable Helper by Rasmus Aaen. According to his own readme file, it provides the following features: Easy variable assignment Go to global/local variables – like in the C/SIDE environment. Sort Variables Fix keyword casing…
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…
When checking out the NAV Techdays Videos (you can find the links here), I found an interesting piece of code in the opening key note. I have to admit: I felt a bit like I am living behind the moon. It seems that there is the possibility to use lists in Business Central/AL. How could I not find out about this earlier? That really surprised me but is an awesome step forward in my opinion. Yes, real lists, no arrays…
Well, how do I…where is the… alright, I will checkout a tutorial first. This was my reaction when someone asked me to add fields to a Word Report and I opened a Microsoft Word layout for the first time. What You Will Learn In this post you will learn how to add a field to an already existing standard report invoice in Visual Studio Code. My examples are done in a docker container with Business Central 15. Update 13.11.2020: The…