Spare Your Blushes with Pre-Commit Hooks
It’s Summer (at least in the northern hemisphere), hooray. You’ve booked some time off, wrapped up what you were working on as best you can, committed and pushed…
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Execute JavaScript with WebPageViewer for Business Central
TL;DR The WebPageViewer add-on has an overload to accept some JavaScript. You can use that to execute arbitrary script locally. WebPageViewer.SetContent(HTML: Text; JavaScript: Text); Executing JavaScript with WebPageViewer…
Tip: Editing RapidStart Configuration Package Files
TL;DR Extract the package with 7-Zip Open the extracted file in a VS Code / Notepad++ / text-editor-of-choice Edit the xml as required Use 7-Zip to compress in…
Pre-Releases & GitHub Actions for Visual Studio Code Extensions
Intro This post is going to be a bit of a brain dump about developing my VS Code extension, branching strategy for pre-releases and releases and using GitHub…
AL Test Runner Pre-Release Version
TL;DR There is now a pre-release version of the AL Test Runner extension for Visual Studio Code. It will have the latest (and possibly unstable) features. Pre-Releases VS…
Tip: Test for Tables Missing from Permission Sets
In PowerShell: $tablesInPermissionSets = @() $permissionSets = gci . -Recurse -Filter '*.al' | ? {(gc $_.FullName).Item(0).startsWith('permissionset')} $permissionSets | % { $content = gc $_.FullName -Raw [Regex]::Matches($content, '(?<=tabledata ).*(?=…
JSON References
TL;DR JSON types reference their value in memory, not the actual value. The below is snipped from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/methods-auto/jsonobject/jsonobject-data-type Be careful making JSON types equal to one another. When…
Tip: Install all Apps in a Folder to a Container
Intro I do this fairly often to prep a new (local) container for development. The script needs to be run on the Docker host and assumes that the…
Tip: Get Current Callstack with a Collectible Error
The Code codeunit 50104 "Get Callstack" { SingleInstance = true; [ErrorBehavior(ErrorBehavior::Collect)] procedure GetCallstack() Callstack: Text var LF: Char; begin LF := 10; Error(ErrorInfo.Create('', true)); Callstack := GetCollectedErrors(true).Get(1).Callstack; exit(Callstack.Substring(Callstack.IndexOf(Format(LF))…
Part 4: (Slightly) More Elegant Error Handling in Business Central
Collectible Errors In part 3 we had a look at the new platform feature, collectible errors. Long story short: it makes scenarios where you want to collect and…