As a result of my previous post, two interesting things happened. Firstly, several people pointed out the excellent 'Ctrl+P' command in VS Code, which left me feeling quite the chump for having spent time crafting my regex: I mean, seriously, look at that - Almost everything I was trying to achieve, right within the product, …
Continue reading An update to ‘Searching the Business Central Base App’
If you're anything like me, when you're developing solutions in AL you often want to refer to the base BC app and see how something works.This almost always starts with navigating to a specific, known object and then using a series of 'Go to Definition' and 'Find All References' commands, with liberal use of the …
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The question of how to migrate your C/AL modifications to extensions has been well answered several times, not least of all by Microsoft's own documentation of the Txt2AL tool.However, if you want to migrate an existing solution from C/AL to an AL extension and keep your data, it's less clear how this should be achieved. …
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There is a very short, simple and honest reason why Intelligent Cloud in Business Central is not ready for the real world: It is far too strongly coupled to the data structures of both systems. In fact, the data structures between the two systems could not be more coupled, and whilst on the surface this …
My original post proclaimed the migration to SaaS as easy, which it is if things work. However, during my testing of the Intelligent Cloud data replication process, there are a few issues which have stopped me time & time again. I thought I'd list them here, and the solutions for each. 1) Intelligent Cloud disappears from …
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If, like me, you've committed yourself to a world of source control for your NAV projects, you've probably got repository upon repository just filled with text files, each one representing one of the 4,500 - 6000 objects within NAV, plus all those wonderful third party add-ons, custom solutions & other assorted dross with which we …
Continue reading Copying Modified C/AL files from Source Control
Jack Mallender 