While developing your own extension on NAV 2018 or “BC under version 15” you have the availability over 2 debuggers: the VSCode debugger and the C/SIDE (or should we call it Windows) debugger. Both serve a somewhat different scenario: VSCode debugger You want to run step-by-step through the code of…
You might have noticed that now, with GA (General Availability) communicated by Microsoft, as mushrooms blog posts and tweets are popping up addressing the new things NAV 2015 will bring to us. Look for example @MVPKine, Mohana, @masaccio1401 and waldo. And myself. [H] As MVP’s we have been involved in the…
Way back in 2004 at Microsoft we had a project running called Elba. The goal of it was to release a wrap pack version of NAV (or Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision as it was called in those days) and was popularly known as Navision Light. Now with NAV 2015 Easy to Use pillar…
For me as a developer this is one of these simple adjustments to the IDE that makes my day. To help me to grasp (more or less) instantly the pattern that I am looking at. In this case to instantly see which object properties carry default values and which non-default…
Finding out that various things have been enhanced in the development environment, I am getting in the “wanting more” mode. Am I getting spoiled already? [^o)] OK, never mind. One way or another I dreaming of this: would they have thought of getting us a lookup from the Image property, so…
Expand/Collapse does not only apply to C/AL Editor. See below. Need to say more? Page Designer Action Designer Report Dataset Designer Query Designer Note Not available on the XMLport Designer [:'(]
A new menu item on the Tools menu! OK, I immediately had my thoughts to this, but just wanted to be sure so did ask some MSFTs. Thank you! [B] Executing it: regenerates the objects’ C# and meta data info needed for the server and updates the Object Metadata table…
OK, we knew Forms would be totally out. Likewise classic Reports with their request forms and previews. All would be replaced by RTC windows, i.e. Pages and Request Pages and RDLC previews. But what about the various dialogs like MESSAGE and CONFIRM? What would show when I would program a…
I finally got things set to dive into NAV2013. And I am really happy. As MVP I was part of (a kind of) TAP program and was provided with a number of CTP builds, but I have been fighting ever since to get things in place and got a bit fed up…
Ever since our team moved to TFS, because of it’s source control system, we are heavily making use of the NAV 2009 SP1 C/SIDE features EXPORTOBJECTS and IMPORTOBJECTS. And even way before that I personally used it frequently. No need anymore for an external tool like Text Object Splitter, NAV Object…