Mrinal Singha's Dynamics NAV Tip & Tricks Blog

As a Dynamics NAV Developer, we always wished our Dynamics NAV Development Environment could deliver more feature like other IDE. A simple feature like code navigation is so tedious you simply lost track or press ESC key accidentally. We wish this developer environment with folding lines to indicate indentation with collapse and expand feature not just only for Function or Procedure level. Could bookmark a code line and track back later. And last but not the least we (at least I) wished keywords are more glorious or eye catching. I am working on this project for last 3 months and more to create and Dynamics NAV IDE Source code viewer to enhance NAV source code file readability. My fellow Dynamics NAV developer presenting FinCAL – A powerful Dynamics NAV Source Code Viewer. This is still in its infant stage and I am continuous working on more advance features like integrating Code Metrics to calculate our code efficiency. More on upcoming updates. .  .. ...

       As  a Dynamics NAV developer/technical support there might be an instance where your client user wrote a mail  describing his/her issue with a snapshot like this. And you are like, “ wow! this explains a lot, too much information to process. Hmmm. . ..” After this you might exchange trail of mails or schedule a voice call or screen sharing session to  understand this issue. Asking user to replicate this issue once again, so that you could analyze the steps or do  debugging on that. This error replication process is time consuming (very unexpectedly) which kills  valuable productive time of both support technical and users. This all mumbo jumbo can be avoided if your client user is familiar or educated about a simple tool called  Microsoft Steps Recorder , which is an inbuilt tool with operating system.   To record and save steps on your computer: 1.     To open Steps Reco...