I regard myself one of the lucky ones that had the chance to attend a class by Bj Rollison. An inspiring test veteran who, in all aspects, exhibits the notion that testing is more than just trying code and finding bugs. Through MSDN I stumbled across his blog, which he…
For a couple of months I have been subscribed to MSDN blogs RSS at the danger of being bombed with loads of blogs post. And because of that probably once every day I did consider to unsubscribe. But every now and then, up till today, I am surprised by a blog…
Writing my blog post How-to: Search a Field in Table Designer I fully forgotten to mention that in a similar way you can search in C/AL Globals and C/AL Locals. Be it Variables: .. or Functions: … or Parameters: … or Text Constants – although in general this will not…
Whereas validation of user input is one side of the medal, the other is validation of code entered data, the subject of this blog post. Code Entered Data Just as any user input code entered data should be validated before it is allowed to be recorded in the database. A…
Having seen a couple of posts on data validation coming by I decided to tackle this issue in a couple of blogs of which this one is the first. Just to straighten out me thoughts and knowledge on this, and share it with you. User Input Like in any other…
A couple of weeks ago I started working on a code review of two of our add-ons. One build on the German (DE) and the other on the Dutch (NL) version of NAV 2009 SP1. The first step I take in this kind of job is to perform a simple text…
Just one of these tricks that compensates some of the monolithic characteristics of C/SIDE. Only if you know!Having been a C/SIDE trainer I was fortunate to meet a lot of NAV developers; I was fortunate to learn a lot from them and share it with others. Like this trick. On…
Ever had to post a large journal batch and an error was thrown just before all lines were checked? So you manage to identify the right journal line somewhere at the bottom of your batch. You fix the issue and post again. But now immediately the systems errs on the…
The last couple of days I came across some posts that triggered my memory on using SQL views in NAV. After ages having done little to none with this I decided to pick up this gauntlet and spend some time diving in my past experiences. As little as they were –…