2015
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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 If you later want to update the reference to the .NET class, for whatever reason (like, there is a newer version of the assembly), updating the reference will actually delete the event triggers with all the code in them.
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Formatting for XML
When you have to format C/AL variables (numbers, dates/times, booleans) for exchange with other apps, call FORMAT(variable,0,9) instead of simply FORMAT(variable). The format 9 formats the variable according to XML standards, and this value can then be interpreted correctly on any system with any regional settings.
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How do I: Demo Microsoft Dynamics NAV
A couple of weeks ago, a new page was created on PartnerSource – the “Demo Microsoft Dynamics NAV” page. You can access it at http://aka.ms/demonav The page contains (at the time) two scripts and two How Do I videos that help you establish a demo NAV 2015 environment on Azure, in Office 365.
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Creating an Azure VM with NAV 2015 using PowerShell
This post is well overdue, I admit it. I have demonstrated so many times so far how to create an Azure VM instance running Microsoft Dynamics NAV through a PowerShell script running on your PC, and it’s just about time to share this script and the theory behind it with the world.
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Passing JSON from JavaScript to C/AL–Part 2
I stand corrected. A month ago I wrote about how to pass JSON from JavaScript to C/AL and then handle it inside, and what I wrote is not wrong, but I just figured a simpler way. Too bad all this is not documented, but hey – that’s why blogging is fun.