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Useful extensions for AL development
It's no secret that development in VS Code without additional extensions is painful. But, the market of VS Code extensions is rather extensive for AL. I will tell you about those that I use.
AZ AL Dev Tools/AL Code Outline — is a set of useful tools in one extension. I advise you to look at a very comfortable and helpful object wizard.
Features:
Features:
- AL objects wizards
- Symbols browser
- AL symbols outline panel
- Symbols tree view
- AL code generators
- Code actions
- Action images browser
- Documentation comments support
- Code analyzers rules viewer
- Document syntax visualizer
A powerful tool that brings us the familiar Object Designer. Sometimes it seems to me that it is much more convenient than C/AL Object Designer.
Features:
Features:
- List Overview of all AL objects in your project: based on symbols (*.app) and your local .al files.
- List Event Publishers from symbol objects and local files, browse them in the same way as objects.
- List Event Subscribers from symbol objects and local files, browse them in the same way as objects.
- Event List view: browse Event publishers of a specific object. Standard events are shown for tables and pages.
- List Unit Tests available in your own workspace files.
- Export list to CSV: current view (objects/events/subscriptions) including all records and visible columns — respecting filters — is exported.
Impossible to imagine working with GIT without this extension. List of features so vast that I just put in a quote
GitLens supercharges the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more.
Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eamodio.gitlens
GitLens supercharges the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more.
Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eamodio.gitlens
Useful tools for testing and translation, also interesting variant report creation tool.
Features:
TRANSLATIONS
Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ClipDynamics.al-language-tools
Features:
TRANSLATIONS
- Automatically create XLIFF files for languages other than es-US
- Snippets for translations, captions, labels and other UI texts
- NOTE: The comment section is used for the translations
- Snippets for testing
- Tools to generate testing codeunits and procedures (Under Development)
Working on features to automatically create test procedures
- Snippets to create a report. It includes the AL file, the RDL file and a buffer table
- The report snippet generates a fully runnable report
Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ClipDynamics.al-language-tools
Comfortable snippets for variables.
Features:
Features:
- Easy variable assignment
- Go to global/local variables — like in the C/SIDE environment.
- Sort Variables
- Fix keyword casing
Pack of custom snippets and tools. The automatic renaming function is one of the main advantages of this extension according to Prefix/Suffix naming requirements.
Features:
Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=waldo.crs-al-language-extension
Features:
- CRS: Run Object (Web Client)
- CRS: Run Object (Tablet Client)
- CRS: Run Object (Phone Client)
- CRS: Run Object (Windows Client)
- CRS: Rename - Current File
- CRS: Rename - All Files
- CRS: Reorganize - Current File
- CRS: CRS: Reorganize - All Files Note - "Reorganize" will move a test-codeunit to the test-folder
- CRS: Search Microsoft Docs
- CRS: Search Google
Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=waldo.crs-al-language-extension
This extension quickly searches (using ripgrep) your workspace for comment tags like TODO and FIXME, and displays them in a tree view in the explorer pane. Clicking a TODO within the tree will open the file and put the cursor on the line containing the TODO.
Found TODOs can also be highlighted in open files.
Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfuggly.todo-tree
Found TODOs can also be highlighted in open files.
Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfuggly.todo-tree
MONDAY, MARCH 9
Author: Volodymyr Dvernytskyi