At the time that I did write my initial post on the question Should I transform reports on NAV 2009? SP1 was not yet released for the next batch of countries after the first release of SP1 last August, i.e. for Belgium (BE), Norway (NO), Sweden (SE), … So I could…
John Daskalakis provides some useful information on his blog post SQL Server 2008 Express: the free database engine from Microsoft. Didn’t want to deny you this one [;)].
Joining dynamicsuser.net recently I started writing my blogs to share my NAV experiences with you. So I thought I could spend a couple of posts on some of NAV’s undocumented features. Greenhorn-me just sad down and wrote, not taking much time to investigate the load of posts on dynamicsuser.net. It was not long…
In my post Validating Data #2: Using VALIDATE I addressed the issue of how to validate code entered data by using the field method VALIDATE. In my notes, however, I mentioned that a VALIDATE call comes with a price. This is what this post is about and how to make the cost…
I regard myself one of the lucky ones that had the chance to attend a class by Bj Rollison. An inspiring test veteran who, in all aspects, exhibits the notion that testing is more than just trying code and finding bugs. Through MSDN I stumbled across his blog, which he…
For a couple of months I have been subscribed to MSDN blogs RSS at the danger of being bombed with loads of blogs post. And because of that probably once every day I did consider to unsubscribe. But every now and then, up till today, I am surprised by a blog…
Writing my blog post How-to: Search a Field in Table Designer I fully forgotten to mention that in a similar way you can search in C/AL Globals and C/AL Locals. Be it Variables: .. or Functions: … or Parameters: … or Text Constants – although in general this will not…
Whereas validation of user input is one side of the medal, the other is validation of code entered data, the subject of this blog post. Code Entered Data Just as any user input code entered data should be validated before it is allowed to be recorded in the database. A…
Having seen a couple of posts on data validation coming by I decided to tackle this issue in a couple of blogs of which this one is the first. Just to straighten out me thoughts and knowledge on this, and share it with you. User Input Like in any other…
A couple of weeks ago I started working on a code review of two of our add-ons. One build on the German (DE) and the other on the Dutch (NL) version of NAV 2009 SP1. The first step I take in this kind of job is to perform a simple text…