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HelloWorld.al

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Finally. Not quite, but still – finally! We finally get the first public glimpse of future of AL code writing, courtesy of Microsoft Dynamics NAV development team.

As you might know, Microsoft is working around the clock to enable new kind of programming for NAV: using Visual Studio Code instead of Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment. They announced it with due fanfare at Directions US, Directions EMEA, and NAV TechDays, and now the NAV community is biting their fingernails off waiting for Microsoft to actually release the thing.

They said some kind of preview will be made somewhat available sometime in December this year, but for now we have got the first glimpse of the new AL syntax.

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Decisions Spring 2013 Kicking-off Next Week

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imageMake sure not to miss Decisions, the virtual conference about Microsoft Dynamics, by MSDynamicsWorld.com. It’s starting next Monday, and I hope you already have it in your calendar. It’s a four day conference, a day per Dynamics flavor (SL is the only one not being served). The best of all – it’s free! Be there.

The Microsoft Dynamics NAV day is on Wednesday, June 20, and it’s featuring a program manager from Microsoft, three MVPs, (at least) three book authors, and a team of seasoned professionals in a series of interesting presentations.

Just like the previous years, I’ll be speaking there myself, and if you would like to join me for an excursion into the world beyond ERP, where several disruptive trends are shaping the future of the IT, and consequently the ERP. I’ll take an angle at the challenges the present and the future bring, and how Microsoft Dynamics NAV faces them, copes with them, and plays along. I promise it’ll be time well spent.

The conference is virtual, so you can attend it in your slippers, I won’t mind. See you in the cloud!

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Beta Available!

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BetaI don’t know about you, but I think today is a great day: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Beta has been published on PartnerSource, and if you have access, you can download it from here.

I’ve been playing around with CTPs for more quite a while, and even though I can’t share any specifics, I can assure you: this is definitely the best release ever, technically, architecturally, functionally and from business value perspective. Whatever angle you take – this release is massive.

I believe I don’t exaggerate if I say that 2013 brings more news in comparison with 2009 R2, than 2009 brought in comparison with 5.0 SP1.

If you want to check more about what exactly is new, I suggest you read the white paper and accompanying documentation at the NAV 2013 launch portal, and I hope the MVPs soon get the clearance to blog about specific features. There are just so many fantastically exciting to-dos for this blog, about NAV 2013, that I’ll probably eat my fingernails – heck, the whole fingers! – in anticipation to be able to start.

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Developer Center

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Somehow I’ve missed it earlier, but a wealth of information for developers, architects and technical consultants specializing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is now available on MSDN in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Developer Center.

While some of the resources there still forward you to PartnerSource, which won’t work for you if you are not a Microsoft Partner, many links will take you to publicly available information, documentation and tools that you can use to sharpen your Microsoft Dynamics NAV technical skills. Spiced up with a digest of Microsoft Dynamics NAV technical blogs, it can be a good morning coffee companion. Definitely worth your click!

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Holidays are over, I’m back again

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IMG_1015I’ve spent a week skiing in Austrian alps (yes, that’s me in the picture), and that’s why I didn’t moderate or reply to any of the comments here. It’s easy to set up the blog posts to auto-publish on a time schedule, but I’ve not found a way to do the same with the comments.

Now that I am back (in one piece), I’m going to be more active on this blog, which means that any comments will be moderated and replied to within a business day. I’m sorry for all of you who have commented and then had to wait for a week before your comments appeared here.

See you on Monday, with my next post about Degree of Fit, which I am glad to find out has spurred some interest already.

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Top Ten Microsoft Dynamics Stories of 2008

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MSDynamicsWorld.com, the independent authority for news and views on Microsoft Dynamics, has closed the year 2008 with a review of top ten stories published on their website in 2008.

Among the Top Ten stories of 2008 you can read a great article about RoleTailored interface, titled How Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Will Use the "Role-Tailored" Interface to Allay the Fears of Reluctant Users by Dave Roys, and my article about implementation best practices, titled Typical Microsoft Dynamics NAV Implementation Blunders.

I am especially proud that both mine, and my friend Dave’s articles have made their way into Top Ten. Both of these articles were written in the midst of writing our book, and taking time to write an article was next to impossible for both of us. I am glad to learn that both the readership and the editors of MSDynamicsWorld.com have found our articles good enough to include them in their Top Ten selection, among the strong competition.

You can read the whole article here.

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