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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Do you have a value, Mr. BLOB?

To check if a BLOB field has a value, you call its HASVALUE function. For…

Improving semantics through function properties

Any function that accepts only one parameter can be called as if it were a…

Try..Catch for .NET Interoperability

While it may be a cold day in hell before we see any TRY..CATCH constructs in pure C/AL, we are all far more lucky when it comes to .NET interoperability. In this blog post I’ll (re)present the same concept I demonstrated during NAV TechDays 2013 last year in Antwerp, because I am quite sure this nifty little trick got lost under piles of other posts on this blog. So, let’s learn how to do try..catch..finally for .NET interoperability C/AL code, using mostly C/AL code.