AL Object ID Ninja

Zero-configuration, dead-simple, lightning fast, no-collision object ID assignment for multi-user repositories

  • No collisions, ever: Real-time, conflict-free ID assignment that always gives every developer a guaranteed unique object ID.
  • Lightning-fast: Get your conflict-free object IDs instantly, with IntelliSense integration.
  • Zero-configuration: No setup, no onboarding, no settings — you work exactly like before, and it silently keeps your IDs clean.
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Getting out of the DateTime mess, or how to get Utc DateTime in C/AL

Today at work I was trying to untangle one big bowl of spaghetti called DateTime. It’s the C/AL DateTime I am talking about, not System.DateTime from .NET. The problem with C/AL DateTime is that no matter what you do it’s, according to documentation, “always displayed as local time”. Another problem with C/AL DateTime is that C/AL is a bit rude when it comes to System.DateTime: whenever C/AL compiler (or runtime) encounters a value of System.DateTime it’s automatically converted to C/AL DateTime. When you combine those two problems, you get the following problem: even though System.DateTime is perfectly capable of handling time in both UTC or local kind, C/AL isn’t. To prove this point, just run this: MESSAGE('Current local time: %1\Current UTC time: %2',SystemDateTime.Now,SystemDateTime.UtcNow); It will show this: image And I am currently sitting in a UTC+1 time zone, mind you.

Visual Studio Control Add-in Project Template

If part of your daily job includes creating control add-ins for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, then you know that creating control add-ins that target all clients requires quite a lot manual work. There are a lot of small steps that you must do every time. To avoid all that work that adds no value, only frustration, here’s a Visual Studio project template that you can use to automate the process of creating a new control add-in.
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