What tools to use
By the time this book was in its final draft, Waldo published a must-view webcast related to this argument. It is worth watching it right after finishing this last chapter: 20231204 - “The” BC Toolkit for developers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDd8heDU8es).
Figure 17.1: Waldo webcast 20231204 - “The” BC Toolkit for developers
Over the years, Waldo has created quite a lot of tools. The first tool Waldo ever put online was back in 2004, WaldoNavPad
, a tool that helps to work with bigger texts in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It helped to break up code into smaller pieces, which was necessary because, back then, we could only have a maximum of 250 characters in one field.
The tool was downloaded over 11,000 times from MiBuSo. Because of its popularity, Waldo updated the tool to a version that worked in the RTC and as an AL extension, where he extended the functionality a bit to have an HTML editor inside Business Central.
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