Useful and Proficient Tools for AL Developers

In previous chapters, we provided some guidance and best practices for developing simple and more exotic solutions with Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Having the correct tools when working with extensions and Visual Studio Code can save you lots of time and energy. In this chapter, we want to give you an overview of some third-party development tools that you can use in your everyday developer life with AL to be more proficient in many tasks. We will focus on tools developed by a famous name in the Microsoft Business Applications world (Eric Wauters, aka Waldo) and provide an overview of several other interesting and proficient extensions for Visual Studio Code.

While we think many of the points in this chapter might be subjective, it is worth keeping in mind that there could be AL developers who think differently from us, so we want to make it clear that we are personally recommending a tool, rather than saying it will certainly...