Control Add-ins and Version Compatibility
(Update, 20.4.2015: As it turns out - this post is not entirely accurate, as pointed out by Johannes Sebastian. Please read the next post to learn more about which parts…
Overloading Methods With JavaScript Control Add-ins
Switching from C# to JavaScript to develop your control add-ins might get you scratching your head more often that your scalp, or nails for that matter, might be happy with.
One of those is overloading. In C#, this is a no-brainer:
However, when you want to do that in JavaScript, if you are not a JavaScript developer, making this work is not as straightforward as a regular JavaScript Joe would find it.
Passing JSON from JavaScript to C/AL–Part 2
I stand corrected. A month ago I wrote about how to pass JSON from JavaScript to C/AL and then handle it inside, and what I wrote is not wrong, but I just figured a simpler way.
Too bad all this is not documented, but hey – that’s why blogging is fun.
Passing JSON from JavaScript to C/AL
Yesterday, I said I was closing this year of blogging, but I wasn’t really. Closing a year with 39 posts, and leaving a question lingering, wouldn’t be too fair, would it? If you read my last postabout how to pass objects from C/AL to JavaScript, you must have wondered if it’s possible to also pass objects from JavaScript back to C/AL.
Wonder no more. It is. And here’s how.
Passing strongly typed data to a JavaScript control add-in
Many cool things often go undocumented. I’ve just stumbled upon one of those, and it comes in handy to close this year of blogging.
Imagine this situation: you have a server-side .NET object, that you want to pass on to the client. With the .NET System.Windows.Forms-based objects, you have to make the object serializable, deploy the object to the client-side Add-in folder, and then set the RunOnClient property on the C/AL variable to Yes.
However, if the client is not .NET-based, if it is a cross-client JavaScript-based one. You may think that it’s not possible to pass the custom object on to JavaScript code. And you may be wrong.