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. .  .. ...

   Araxis Merge is well known and one of the commonly used file comparing and merging tool across the globe. Which offers Two-way & Three-way (only for Professional Edition) compare and merge changes in text files. If you want to know more about this tool visit, https://www.araxis.com/merge/features.en Now to the point, Araxis Merge doesn’t support C/AL code and treats NAV text object as plain text so NO Syntax Highlighting. but with this simple tweak Araxis can great C/AL code editor and better at code r eadability.    This how Araxis will like look after this following tweak.  I am sharing my  Araxis Merge options configuration file (.mop7) , where I added all the C/AL keywords.  Google drive link below. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XImUUhZ44l7IoX9h1qgZSfrSRt8DAW99/view?usp=sharing After downloading the file import this into your Araxis merge, steps below. 1. Open Options 2. Click Open Saved Options... 3. ...

C/AL Code support in Notepad++ Normally NAV object (.txt file) open as plain text in Notepad++ without no keyword highlighting as below. Which completely different from our native Developer Environment thus this editor is not friendly for code readability. But with importing a user defined C/AL language or UDL file in Notepad++, C/AL codes can be supported as other build-in support languages like Java or C#. Same file opened in Notepad++ after importing the UDL file. Now keywords are highlighted in multiple colours which is customizable.