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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.

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.

(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.

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…

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 If you later want to update the reference to the .NET class, for whatever reason (like, there is a newer version of the assembly), updating the reference will actually delete the event triggers with all the code in them.

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.

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.

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.

Yesterday, I said I was closing this year of blogging, but I wasn’t really. Closing a year with 39 posts, and leaving a question lingering, wouldn’t be too fair, would it? If you read my last postabout how to pass objects from C/AL to JavaScript , you must have wondered if it’s possible to also pass objects from JavaScript back to C/AL.

Many cool things often go undocumented. I’ve just stumbled upon one of those, and it comes in handy to close this year of blogging. Imagine this situation: you have a server-side .NET object, that you want to pass on to the client.