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Migrating Control Add-ins from C/SIDE to AL

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Thanks to everyone who watched my live stream today! The audience wasn’t big, but it’s a very narrow topic, not of broad interest. Still, I am glad I got a few interesting questions that actually introduced my future topics quite nicely.

You can find the recording here:

As promised, I have published the GetImageResource.js file on my GitHub. You can find it here:

https://github.com/vjekob/RandomBits/tree/main/src/js

(There you can also find some usage notes and explanation why you may want to use that file in your control add-ins)

Once again – thanks, and see you next week in a topic that should draw a lot more audience: AL interfaces!

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What’s New in NAV 2016: Control Add-ins

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Well, control add-ins are not new in NAV 2016, they have been around for a long time now. But, they have been improved and this blog post is about these improvements.

Of course, the improvements are exclusively in the Web client framework, not the Windows client, and I am educated-guessing here that we won’t really see many improvements in the control add-in framework for Windows in the future. Why would we? All control add-ins should target all clients and use the Web framework, anyway so the case for Windows client is getting weaker and weaker.

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