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James Pearson

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Dynamics 365 Business Central

Managing Business Central Development with Git: Branches

Obligatory Preamble I wasn’t really intending to write this post. If you want training materials for learning the basic concepts of Git then there is tonnes of great…

📅 25 February 2020 👁 57 views
Dynamics 365 Business Central

Managing Business Central Development with Git: Rebasing

This is part two of a series about using Git to manage your Business Central development. This time – rebasing. It seems that rebasing can be something of…

📅 19 February 2020 👁 125 views
Dynamics 365 Business Central

Testing Against a Remote Docker Host with AL Test Runner

Apologies for another post about AL Test Runner. If you don’t use or care about the extension you can probably stop reading now and come back next time.…

📅 10 February 2020 👁 67 views
Dynamics 365 Business Central

Remote Development with VS Code and AL Test Runner

The most obvious limitation of the AL Test Runner extension for VS Code has been that you need to run VS Code on the Docker host machine. That’s…

📅 28 January 2020 👁 164 views
Dynamics 365 Business Central

Scheduling Azure DevOps Pipelines with YAML

I had the pleasure of presenting some thoughts about developing apps for SaaS with James Crowter to the Dutch Dynamics Community yesterday. We were sharing some of our…

📅 15 January 2020 👁 38 views
Dynamics 365 Business Central

Putting Queries to Use in Business Central

We’ve had query objects for a while now – since NAV 2013 (I think). In theory they sound great, link a bunch of tables together, aggregate some columns,…

📅 8 January 2020 👁 96 views
Dynamics 365 Business Central

AL Test Runner 0.1.15

This is a brief update about the AL Test Runner extension that I’ve been working on for VS Code. I’ve had some great feedback and suggestions via GitHub,…

📅 24 December 2019 👁 118 views
Dynamics 365 Business Central

Some More About Translating Business Central Apps

I’ve written before about using Azure Cognitive Services to translate the captions in the .xlf file that is generated when you compile your Business Central app. For us,…

📅 16 December 2019 👁 95 views
Dynamics 365 Business Central

AL Test Runner for Visual Studio Code

TL;DR I’ve written an extension for VS Code to help run your AL tests in local Docker containers. Search for “AL Test Runner” in the extension marketplace or…

📅 18 November 2019 👁 124 views