Academy - VSCode and Modern NAV Development | 2 Day Workshop (FOCUS 2019)

Monday, March 11, 2019 (9:00 AM) to Tuesday, March 12, 2019 (6:00 PM) (Eastern Time)

Gunnar Þór Gestsson

Description
Speakers

This course will be held onsite in Houston, TX on March 11-12, 2019 prior to the start of User Group Focus 2019 (right click to open the Focus Site in a new window)

Course will run from 8:00am-5:00pm each day

The goal of the workshop is to learn about the new development tool for Business Central (Dynamics NAV), VSCode, GIT source control management and to experience what AL programming is about
• What makes AL different from C/AL
• How do you build and deploy a new BC feature
• How can I convert my current code into AL
• How to get ready for publishing your IP to AppSource
• How to use GIT for you code

Day 1 Agenda
• Open VS Code, Install GIT and AdvaniaGIT
• Convert a simple C/AL solution to AL
• Object Types and VS Code
• Installation and Upgrade code
• Manual Setup
• Service Connectoins
• Application Areas
• Usage Categories
• Profiles
• Role Centers
• Web Services
• Xliff Translations
• Function Overloading
• Native AL data types

Day 2 Agenda
• In Client Designer
• Side by Side Development
• Code Analysis
• Debugging
• Reports
• Unit Testing
• AppSource Requirements

Target audience: C/AL Developers that need to be ready to go for Business Central an AL

Course level: High Intermediate to Advanced

Prerequisites and Computer Requirements:
Please bring a Laptop with Remote Desktop software to connect to the Azure VM
Each participant will be supported a fully functional Azure VM with the latest Business Central Sandbox environment

Gunnar Þór Gestsson
Born in a small town, Sauðárkrókur, on the north cost of Iceland. Finished BSc in economics in the Icelandic University. Got my first computer at the age of thirteen and started to program data handling applications. Started to work for Kaupfélag Skagfirðinga, first in old IBM System, then developing Visual Basic office solutions on top of that IBM System and in 1994 started developing in Navigator. Moved to Element, a company owned by Kaupfélag Skagfirðinga that was aquired by Advania in 2003. Have worked there since. My office is in Sauðárkrókur and I am running my dynamics.is web site from my home.