An update to ‘Searching the Business Central Base App’

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, …

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Searching the Business Central Base App with Regular Expressions

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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Interacting with REST APIs using JSON from within Business Central: Part 1 – An Introduction to the HTTPClient data type

The HTTPClient available to us from within AL is a very useful feature in this modern time full of APIs, but it is fair to say that the documentation for it is somewhat lacking. In this post I intend to explain how I've used it and hopefully reveal a few of it's secrets. Whilst this post …

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How to migrate Business Central data from C/AL to AL

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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