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crs-al-language-extension

A bunch of useful commands, settings and snippets to improve your life as an al developer for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (or "Microsoft Dynamics NAV").

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Features

These features are concluded at this moment:

Install waldo's modules (Temporarily disabled):

Download all PowerShell modules of author "waldo" from the PowerShellGallery. Basically resulting in:

• Cloud.Ready.Software.NAV
• Cloud.Ready.Software.SQL
• Cloud.Ready.Software.Windows
• Cloud.Ready.Software.PowerShell

Visualize dependencies by generating a GraphViz .dot file

Command: CRS: Create GraphViz Dependency Graph

This command will read all app.json files in your workspace (so this function is really useful in a Multi-root workspace) and create a .dot dependency file from it. To display this file graphically, I recommend to also install the extension Graphviz Interactive Preview. If you have, this command will automatically open the preview after generating the graph.

This functionality will take these settings into account:

• CRS.DependencyGraph.IncludeTestApps: Whether to include all dependencies to test apps in the Dependency Graph.
• CRS.DependencyGraph.ExcludeAppNames: List of apps you don't want in the dependency graph.
• CRS.DependencyGraph.ExcludePublishers: List of publishers you don't want in the dependency graph.
• CRS.DependencyGraph.RemovePrefix: Remove this prefix from the appname in the graph. Remark: this has no influence on the 'Exluce AppNames' setting.

To generate a DGML (using the ALC.EXE):

• CRS: Compile DGML, which enables the new capabilities of the compiler to generate a DGML document that can be opened by a DGML reader (usually Visual Studio).

Run Object

The idea is to be able to run an object straight from the development environment. There are four functions in the Command Palette:

• CRS: Run Object (Web Client)
• CRS: Run Object (Tablet Client)
• CRS: Run Object (Phone Client)
• CRS: Run Object (Windows Client) Depending on which client, you will be asked for object type and object id. The functionality looks at the settings (launch.json and configuration settings).

Furthermore, there are ways to open certain object directly:

• CRS: Run Current Object (Web Client) (CTRL+SHIFT+r) - runs the object from the open file (the extension needs to be published first). You can also run this command from the status bar ('Run In Web Client') and the context menu from the explorer.`
• CRS: Publish and Run Current Object
• CRS: Run AL Test Tool in Web Client
• CRS: Run Event Subscribers Page in Web Client
• CRS: Run Database Locks Page in Web Client

Reorganize Files

The commands can rename your file, and move the file to the folder, corresponding to the object type. There are four functions in the Command Palette:

• CRS: Rename - Current File
• CRS: Rename - All Files
• CRS: Reorganize - Current File
• CRS: CRS: Reorganize - All Files Note - "Reorganize" will move a test-codeunit to the test-folder

With the command CRS: Configure Best-practice File Naming, it will set up your user settings or workspace settings with some settings that are considered to be best practice.

Search on Google / Microsoft Docs

Two commands have been added to search for any given search string on Google or Microsoft Docs. The search string "Business Central" will automatically be added.

• CRS: Search Microsoft Docs
• CRS: Search Google

The selected word in the editor will be added by default as a search string.

Snippets

al Snippets:

• tpagewizard3stepswaldo
  • creates a wizard with 3 steps
  • includes placeholders
• ttableextensionwaldo
  • Quite the same as the default snippet, but with the comment to include an TargetTableId to be able to properly rename the file (which might need that ID).
• tpageextensionwaldo
  • Quite the same as the default snippet, but with the comment to include an TargetPageId to be able to properly rename the file (which might need that ID).
• tpagecustomizationwaldo
  • Quite the same as the default snippet, but with the comment to include an TargetPageId to be able to properly rename the file (which might need that ID).
• tvarwaldo
  • Some easier way to greate a variable
• tfieldgroup(s)waldo
  • To work with fieldgroups (Like "Brick" & "DropDown")
• tProcedureFromClipboard
  • to convert a piece of code into a function, just cut the code and use this snippet - pretty cool ;-).
• tTestHandler..
  • multiple snippets for easily adding handlers in test-codeunits…