October 2015
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Fixing Preview Posting: Part 2
In my two last posts, I laid out the technical design of the Preview Posting feature, and then showed how to simplify its design to get around the unwanted behavior of TryFunction . One thing is obvious from these posts: Preview Posting wants to simulate posting of a document (or journal) to show what the results would be, but without leaving any actual trace in the database.
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Fixing Preview Posting: Part 1
In my yesterday’s article about the Preview Posting feature in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 I said there are at least two ways to redesign it to avoid both the unnecessary complication and inherent dangers of the TryFunction feature behavior.
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TryFunction Lessons Learned from Preview Posting
One of great new functional features of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 is preview posting. It allows you to preview all the entries that would result from posting a document or a general journal. Preview posting is not a simple thing. If it was, Microsoft would have delivered it years ago.
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What’s New in NAV 2016: Record Type Improvements
We all use records. And we all used to whine about records not supporting all the features we need. And they still don’t, but in Microsoft Dynamics NAV they support much more. Some of the new features are well documented, some are somewhat documented. So here’s what I figured out so far is new about the Record data type.
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What’s New in NAV 2016: Control Add-ins
Well, control add-ins are not new in NAV 2016, they have been around for a long time now. But, they have been improved and this blog post is about these improvements. Of course, the improvements are exclusively in the Web client framework, not the Windows client, and I am educated-guessing here…
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What’s New in NAV 2016: Splitting Atoms with TryFunction
If this was a joke, then it would be one of those good-news-bad-news jokes. So which one do you want first? To stay true to all jokes of this kind, I’ll start with good news first. Good news is, you now have TryFunction s, that return true if no error happens, and false if an error happens inside them.
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What’s New in NAV 2016: Application Test Toolkit
The best news sometimes go silent, and the newest release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV has just proven this claim. Ladies and gentlemen, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 comes shipped with full set of application test toolkit, that you can use to test your customizations against regression issues.
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Comparing .NET values
When comparing .NET variables, including Enums, you cannot use C/AL comparison operators. To compare .NET variables, you must use the Equals method (of the System.Object type) that all .NET types implement or inherit. So, instead of IF var1 = var2, or IF var1 = var1.EnumValue (in case of an Enum), just write IF var1.Equals(var2), or IF var1.Equals(var1.EnumValue).
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Directions EMEA 2015 Session Content
For me, Mannheim was always a yet another German city, one that beyond its name I knew nothing else about. When it was announced that Directions EMEA 2015 would be in Mannheim, my first reaction was “say what?” And yet, just as last year in Poznan, I was pleasantly surprised, and realized that every place has something to show, spirit to share, and energy to bring.
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What’s New in NAV 2016: Code Editor
Three years ago I was doing a presentation about something or other about NAV at a non-NAV conference. That’s in front of normal developers. And you can imagine what their impression was of the state of the technology when, in front of a couple of hundred mostly C# developer, I opened the C/AL editor.