[Just a note to myself as I always need to look up what to download and install on Visual Studio 2017 to allow me to work on RDLC layouts for my reports.] When opening the layout of a printable report from C/SIDE report designer Visual Studio 2017 will be opened….
For those of you that have been following me for a reasonable number of years: you might have stumbled across my testimonial. It clearly marked a threshold in my professional carrier, and in hindsight it was worth all the while taking it. And now I am on the verge of…
Or freely translated from an old Dutch saying (Doe de deur dicht! Je bent toch niet in de kerk geboren?): Close that FastTab! Have you been born in church? … meaning: keep the door closed, do not spoil the heat inside. And that's what this small post is about: have…
Start of this year we upgraded our NAV 2016 installation to NAV 2018 RTM. And February 26 we were live. It was a relative smooth and fast upgrade and we were quite pleased with it. We ran however into a couple of performance issues of which one them exposed itself…
More or less coincidentally I stumbled over the topic of this post a couple of weeks ago in my next endeavor to raise the success rate of the MS test suite on our solution. A task being picked up every once in while, next to all the normal work. The…
Tomorrow exactly one month ago I wrote this post, based on the update in a number of test codeunits in NAV 2018 CU3: Let's talk about Shared Fixture and how to profit from this with the Dynamics NAV Test Toolkit. Just now I finished upgrading our test code to NAV…
It’s been a while that I wrote on NAV and automated tests. In the meanwhile I have been teaching a lot all over Europe, and, yes, advocating test automation in NAV. And what did you do since my last post How-to: Run Standard Tests against Your Code? Did you dare…
The other day I wanted to get my local NAV 2018 installation fully working. Fully local, including VSCode. And … setup an extra database with its own service tier. In the end it was quite easy, not in the least to some very helpful resources (see below), but I ran…