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Inverting Dependencies with Interfaces in Business Central Application Language

Inverting Dependencies with Interfaces in Business Central Application Language

How to effectively use interfaces in AL and manage your Business Central application source code better.

What's inside a Business Central Configuration Package

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What's inside a Business Central Configuration Package

Tracking content of a Business Central configuration package can help to ensure the packaged data and its setup as per your expectation. Here is a way to do it with some code snippets for process automation.

Navigating Microsoft Base and System Apps with VS Code Workspaces

Navigating Microsoft Base and System Apps with VS Code Workspaces

Set up an environment where Go to References works across your AL extensions as well as Base and System Applications of Business Central.

Convert Business Central BLOB Value to Text in Transact-SQL with SQL CLR

Convert Business Central BLOB Value to Text in Transact-SQL with SQL CLR

This blog post is for you if you're looking for a way to get the text values of a BLOB field directly from a SQL query without having to modify the Business Central code base.

Measuring Code Performance with NAV Application Profiler

Measuring Code Performance with NAV Application Profiler

This article brings to attention that the good old tool is still out there and can be incredibly helpful for on-premise Business Central (v 14).

Walkthrough: AL Extension on Docker Desktop

Walkthrough: AL Extension on Docker Desktop

Follow this detailed guide to set up your first Business Central development environment with BC Container Helper and publish an AL extension to it.