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…
Hang been working on a fully automated DTAP street for the past year using Azure DevOps, we are now getting in the phase of tightening the last nuts and bolts. This typically is about completing some part of the automation still, but mainly it’s about getting all the sources in…
The other day we found out that some part of one of our extensions was not uploaded to our source code repository and no local version was available anymore. But we did have the .app file. I knew from extensions version 1.0 that the extension file, the .navx, was a…
[Just a note to myself as I always need to look up what to download and install on Visual Studio 2017 to allow me to work on RDLC layouts for my reports.] When opening the layout of a printable report from C/SIDE report designer Visual Studio 2017 will be opened….
Or freely translated from an old Dutch saying (Doe de deur dicht! Je bent toch niet in de kerk geboren?): Close that FastTab! Have you been born in church? … meaning: keep the door closed, do not spoil the heat inside. And that's what this small post is about: have…
Start of this year we upgraded our NAV 2016 installation to NAV 2018 RTM. And February 26 we were live. It was a relative smooth and fast upgrade and we were quite pleased with it. We ran however into a couple of performance issues of which one them exposed itself…
More or less coincidentally I stumbled over the topic of this post a couple of weeks ago in my next endeavor to raise the success rate of the MS test suite on our solution. A task being picked up every once in while, next to all the normal work. The…
Tomorrow exactly one month ago I wrote this post, based on the update in a number of test codeunits in NAV 2018 CU3: Let's talk about Shared Fixture and how to profit from this with the Dynamics NAV Test Toolkit. Just now I finished upgrading our test code to NAV…
It’s been a while that I wrote on NAV and automated tests. In the meanwhile I have been teaching a lot all over Europe, and, yes, advocating test automation in NAV. And what did you do since my last post How-to: Run Standard Tests against Your Code? Did you dare…
The other day I wanted to get my local NAV 2018 installation fully working. Fully local, including VSCode. And … setup an extra database with its own service tier. In the end it was quite easy, not in the least to some very helpful resources (see below), but I ran…