Navigating 365

Here's to the crazy ones.

From our inception over 6 years ago, ACTON Fiji has been driven by a desire to make a positive impact on the world. The company was founded with the goal

Machine Learning in Climate Finance

Leveraging smart computation and algorithms to help solve a problem is what we do best, and as it turns out, Climate Change is one such growing area where lots of problems need smart solutions. That's where we come in.

Business Central

[Business Central] Single Instance Codeunits

How can a global variable be accessed in business central through AL Extension Development?

Business Central

Notifications in Business Central AL

How to create notifications safely on the active page in Business Central using AL?

.NET

Dapper Contrib - Easy CRUD Method

So far, we have looked at CRUD operations by implementing the operations ourselves using SQL. Dapper Contrib takes it up one step further and provides us with a neat methods to do the CRUD tasks for us.

LsOne

Ls One: On the Use of Micro ORMS

Sometimes, we need self contained queries, without wanting to change a lot of areas of the standard code base. I managed to get Dapper up and running for Ls One. now instead of creating providers etc for simple queries, I use my approach.

Dynamics NAV

Microsoft Dynamics NAV: On the Use of Micro ORMS

Sometimes we need to communicate with a NAV Database, and generally the legacy approach I have seen is to call Stored Procedures, or in very rare cases, utilize ADO.NET within your application. Recently, I attempted to utilize an Object Relational Mapper to help with this.

Quick Fix: Visual Studio 2017 displaying NAV Report Layout as XML

I have a problem with Visual Studio 2017 Professional Edition not displaying the NAV Report Layouts properly. It would open up as XML every time, instead of the visual layout.

.NET Interoperability Tricks: Dynamics NAV: Generic Lists<T> in C/AL

Working with .NET in Dynamics NAV 2018 is cool. It feels like you are writing C/AL armed with the full might and strength of an Asgardian god. There is a good amount of tutorials online that help us understand how this interoperability works.

Using IEnumerator to iterate through a .NET Framework collection in Dynamics NAV

In C/AL, You can use the FOREACH statement to iterate through a .NET Framework collection or array object. It is the recommended approach, and provides a very simple construct for C/AL programmers:

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Welcome to Navigating 365

Navigating 365 is where I talk about my ideas, stories and thoughts relevant to my work as a Software Engineer.