AL developers for Microsoft Business Central need to browse the Business Central image gallery to select meaningful images. This allows them to assign these images to new action buttons, enhancing the user interface for better usability. The AZ AL Dev Tools extension simplifies this process by adding new commands that load and display available images …
Category: Development
Feb 02
Decluttering Your Enums: How to Show Only What Matters
It is common practice to use existing objects when developing new modules. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers a wide array of pre-defined enums; however, specific options within these enums may not be relevant to the new module’s requirements. Additionally, there may be instances where it is advisable to restrict users from selecting specific values …
Jun 25
Read Data from Dynamics 365 Business Central Replica Database (Data Access Intent)
One beautiful thing about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is that it allows you to have a read-only replica of the Azure SQL database and use that replica database to perform read-only queries to retrieve data. Queries to retrieve data running on the replica database, your main database instance will run smoothly without any performance impacts.
Feb 10
How to get Business Central Environment Related Attributes?
If you want to get the details about the environment you don’t have to reinvent the wheel, you can simply use the standard codeunit Microsoft has introduced. If you look into the codeunit 457 “Environment Information”, you will see there are many procedures that fetch attributes concerning the environment of the service on which the tenant is hosted. Codeunit 457 is part of the System Application.Source.
Feb 10
TableType Property = Temporary
A temporary table is a temporary variable that holds a table. A temporary table is used as a buffer or intermediate storage for table data.
You can use a temporary table just like you use a database table. The differences between a temporary table and a database table are as follows:
A temporary table data isn’t stored in the database. It’s only held in memory until the table is closed.
The write transaction principle that applies to a database table doesn’t apply to a temporary table.
Oct 20
Quick fix for warning AL0604: Use of implicit ‘with’ will be removed in the future.
If you have not read my previous blog posts about the Implicit WITH, I suggest you read them to get a better understanding of the Implicit WITH. Also, you can read the Microsoft Docs to get more information as well. NoImplicitWith – The name #FieldName does not exist in the current context NoImplicitWith: The type …