April 2015
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Automatically Confirm cmdlets
Some NAV PowerShell cmdlets (such as Import-NAVApplicationObject ) don’t have the -Force switch, and always ask for confirmation regardless of whether you include the -Confirm switch or not. To work around this, append the – Confirm:$false switch to such command.
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Control Add-ins and Version Compatibility–Update
Yesterday I posted a quick tip, which quickly got some comments about it being wrong. Since I know people who commented were unlikely to say something incorrect, I went to check on, because I myself experienced difficulties that made me write that post.
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Control Add-ins and Version Compatibility
(Update, 20.4.2015: As it turns out – this post is not entirely accurate, as pointed out by Johannes Sebastian. Please read the next post to learn more about which parts are, and which aren’t correct.) Control Add-ins written in C# are not cross-version compatible.
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Overloading Methods With JavaScript Control Add-ins
Switching from C# to JavaScript to develop your control add-ins might get you scratching your head more often that your scalp, or nails for that matter, might be happy with. One of those is overloading. In C#, this is a no-brainer: However, when you want to do that in JavaScript, if you are not a…
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How To Update a Class Or Assembly Reference in C/AL And Retain Event Trigger Code
When you reference a .NET class that exposes events, and you switch on the WithEvents property, C/SIDE creates the event triggers for you. If you later want to update the reference to the .NET class, for whatever reason (like, there is a newer version of the assembly), updating the reference will actually delete the event triggers with all the code in them.