Jul 19
When still working in Dynamics NAV, you can easily add a timer to your page to allow, for instance, refreshes of the page in intervals. For that, you could use a Control Add-In called “Ping Pong”. Since we have no ability to use .Net anymore in AL, this ability went away and was not replaced …
Sep 19
As a developer of an extension, I would like to give other developers the ability to customize the behavior of my extension in certain, predefined ways. For instance, I could give a developer the ability to bypass my extension in certain scenarios. I also could give a developer the ability to customize some profit or …
Sep 17
Guided tours in Dynamics 365 extensions V2 I have been working with the modern dev environment for Dynamics 365 Business now for a while and have been trying to get walkthroughs our guided tours setup for apps. The issue with the V2 extensions is that they are not completely ready yet and therefore, it is …
Jul 26
While I am working with the modern development environment, I am going to document limitations or other issues that I am finding. There are a lot of blog posts out there discussing how to get started or is it good or bad. I am not going to go into this discussion – it is what …
Jul 25
I am currently working on migrating extensions from version 1.0 to 2.0 – developed in the new Visual Studio Code development environment for Dynamics 365 Business. While I might be writing a blog about the entire process at a later point, I want to focus more on those “limitations” that are currently available. One of …
Mar 10
It has been a few weeks since part 1, but I wanted to get back to it and bring up a few resources on where to look to understand the different techniques when refactoring code and also give you some assistance on where to get started. If you want to refresh your memory or haven’t …
Mar 02
Not too long ago, I was facing the issue that I needed to be able to make any record so that I could transfer this record – I wanted to be able to find a way to take any record and be able to transfer it to a façade codeunit, to an event subscriber, well, …
Feb 19
I started writing a couple blogs to determine, if the current installation is a multitenant installation or how to get the name of the current SQL Server. There are a few more useful things that you can do with the DLLS that are shipped with Dynamics NAV. I am going to add some more with …
Feb 17
I have had the same conversation with countless customers and developers over the years: “You should really look at your code and refactor it or some of it during the upgrade.” Rarely, you get a “great, it sounds like a good idea. I am willing to pay for it.”. Usually, you get resistance to the …
Feb 10
I recently wrote a little blog on how to determine, if the current installation is a multitenant installation. There are a few more useful things that you can do with the DLLS that are shipped with Dynamics NAV. I am going to add some more with different blog posts and hope that you will find …