Month: July 2018

How to Protect IP Code in Business Central

15Now I know you already started developing app using VS Code and now questions is that how to protect app for viewing the code while debugging or downloading.

However extension development package provide setting for IP protection for viewing or downloading the code of extensions but you can also control by just adding one line code  in app.json file.

app.json file containing setting called showMyCode which controls whether it is possible to debug the code ,By default it is set to false which means debugging in extension code not allowed.

If you want to allow to show extension code then add the line as below in app.json file as by default this setting is not added in app.json file when it is created.

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By adding this setting, you enable debugging into an extension to view the source code when that extension is set as a dependency.

Stay tuned for more.

 

 

 

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How to Retain data after publishing App

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Hope you all started app development and may be wondering how to retain data after publishing app or debugging several times or after adding more sample data.

How do I retain the sample data so every time no need to add the same data.  ?????

In Business central you can synchronize the sample data while publishing several times. This can be done by simple settings in launch .json file.

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Once you mention this settings then the  data synchronize is controlled by this settings.

This settings consist of two options i.e. Synchronize and Recreate .

The default value is synchronize which means data will be retain every time when the app get published.

When schemaupdate set to Recreate mode then all the tables and table extensions are recreated every time and data will get lost.

When schemaupdate set to Synchronize then:

Do’s

  1. Add more field in table
  2. Increase length of field.

Don’t

  1. Don’t delete the field which contains sample data as if the field is removed from table then data can not be synchronize
  2. Don’t decrease the length of field for code and text datatype.

For above points you need to write upgrade code units or set schemaupdate to recreate.

In next blog will see how to write upgrade code units.

Stay tuned for more…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dynamics 365 Business Central October ’18 release

With the October ’18 release, Dynamics 365 Business Central is available in the cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid deployments.

Business Central on-premises availability

Business Central gets an on-premises deployment option that serves as a successor to Dynamics NAV. In other words, rather than a new version number for Dynamics NAV, customers can get Business Central on-premises.

Check following links

Overview of Dynamics 365 Business Central October ’18 release

Summary of what’s new in Dynamics 365 Business Central

 

CU Update with NAV 2018

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New cumulative update release for NAV 2018 CU 7

You can check on this link for more update Check for Details

Download from NAV 2018 CU7

Visit here for more details

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nav/2018/07/09/cumulative-update-07-for-microsoft-dynamics-nav-2018-has-been-released/

Warning

Before you install a cumulative update in a production environment, take the following precautions:

  1. Test the cumulative update in a non-production environment.
  2. Make a backup of the system or computer where the cumulative update is to be installed.
  3. This Cumulative Update can require a database upgrade.

 

 

 

User and Workspace Settings in Visual Studio Code

I hope you already started working with Visual studio code.

In this section we will see how to do setting for User and workspace in Visual Studio code environment.

It is easy to configure visual studio code as per your likings using various settings. You can change VS code editor ,user interface and functioning by using this settings

There are three ways you can open user and workspace settings

  1. To access you can go to  Click on File–>Preferences–>Settings

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2) Using Command Palette(Ctrl+Shift+P)  by typing

Preferences: Open User Settings  or Preferences : Open Workspace Settings

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3) Use keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+,)

This provides two different settings

  • User Settings – Settings that apply globally to any instance of VS Code you open.
  • Workspace Settings – Settings stored inside your workspace and only apply when the workspace is opened.

Workspace settings override user settings.

How to create user settings 

Once you open settings then you can modify settings as below

Example. If I want to change font size in editor then I can do it from here

 

Change the font size and see the effect on editor.

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It shows the effect immediately after saving the file.

Same kind of settings you can do it for AL language extension management

user7These changes get saved in %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json

Hope this will help you while extension development

Stay tuned for more…

Cheers…

 

 

 

 

Setup Visual Studio Code for local NAV server Installation

In this section we will see how do we setup Visual studio code locally on NAV 2018 server.

Hereby I assume that NAV 2018 is already installed on local machine .

You can download Visual studio code from Visual Studio Code

After Installing NAV 2018 and Visual Studio Code follow following steps to enable Visual studio code for writing extension and AL code.

  1. Enable Developer Service endpoint from NAV server instance

Developer End Point

2) Setup Web Client Base URL

Mention the web client url address .for example :- http://localhost:8080/dynamicsnav110/

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Once all changes done in service then restart the service.

3) Open Visual studio code and Install VSIX file from media 

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You will find .vsix file in NAV 2018 Media file in folder ..\NAV.11.0.22292.W1.DVD\ModernDev\program files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\110\Modern Development Environment\ALLanguage.Vsix

This will install AL language in visual studio code

4) Press CTRL+SHIFT+P and select command AL:GO in order to select a location and create a folder with default file of an extension

5) Setup Launch .JSON file

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Change server instance to DynamicsNAV110 and authentication to Windows

6) Press CTRL+SHIFT+P  and use command to download symbols AL:Download Symbols

7) Pres CTRL+F5 to publish the Helloworld.AL extension which extends customer list page and same id is mention in startupobjectid parameters of launch .json file

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Once publish you will get following in web client

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Get ready for extension development with this….

Cheers…