We connect ALDC to the two knowledge sources it recommends: BCQuality, as a plugin, and MCP servers. And we ask both the same question: when to use a FlowField instead of storing the calculated value in a field.
What you'll see:
– The BCQuality card in Project Manager: plugin mode (the recommended one), external knowledge folder, or disabled with native review.
– Install BCQuality… copies the official repository URL and you paste it into VS Code's installer. VS Code installs it, not ALDC.
– The BCQuality 1.10 plugin with its three skills: al-code-review, al-knowledge and al-plan-guidance.
– A question with /bcquality:al-knowledge: it answers in 33 s, cites three BCQuality articles (web services, performance and data modeling) and marks the answer as partial, saying why. Reading the plugin's articles, outside the project, needs your permission.
– The MCP servers card: the project has no .vscode/mcp.json and ALDC recommends AL Dependency, Microsoft Learn and Context7. We add the first two after reviewing each change; the file is yours.
– VS Code starts the servers; Microsoft Learn offers three tools.
– The same question to the Microsoft Learn server: it returns the official "FlowFields overview" page with its link and a summary.
BCQuality tells you what's advisable and why; Microsoft Learn, how the platform works.
Versions: ALDC extension and toolkit 5.3.0 (bc29-native profile), BCQuality 1.10.0, VS Code Insiders 1.146, GitHub Copilot Chat 0.75.2026111103 (Copilot harness, model Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Medium), AL Language 18.1.2842859.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:12 BCQuality: modes and install
0:48 The question to BCQuality
1:27 MCP servers in mcp.json
2:08 The same question to Microsoft Learn
2:34 Wrap-up
Links
BCQuality: https://github.com/microsoft/BCQuality
ALDC and BCQuality: https://github.com/javiarmesto/ALDC-AL-Development-Collection/blob/v5.3.0/docs/bcquality.md
ALDC 5.3.0 release: https://github.com/javiarmesto/ALDC-AL-Development-Collection/releases/tag/v5.3.0
FlowFields overview (Microsoft Learn): https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-flowfields
Previous episode: 02 Install ALDC from scratch: https://youtu.be/T61l9nVhva8