Demo.md

VSCode Shortcuts

• Show shortcuts with Screencasting
• Ctrl+B: Toggle side bar
• Ctrl+J: Toggle Pannel
• Ctrl+R: Quick Open Recent Workspace
  • Search by file bname
  • Search by folder name
• Ctrl+P: Quick Open file
  • Use "@" for symbol in file
  • Right arrow: open files
• Alt+Left/Right: Navigate back and forward
• Ctrl+Enter: New line below
• Ctrl+Shift+Enter: New line Above
• Alt+Up/Down: move lines Up/Down
• Alt+Shift+Up/Down: Copy line(s) Up/Down

While coding

• Ctrl+Shift+Space: tooltip in code
• Ctrl+:: Toggle line comment
• Alt+Shift+A: Toggle block comment
• Ctrl+Shift+;: Breadcrumbs
• Multiple editors
  • drag and drop
  • Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown: previous/next editor
  • Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right: Move editor left/right
  • Double click: Keep open
• Ctrl+Shift+T: Reopen closed editor

Multi cursor editing

• Add cursors with Alt+Click
• Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down: Add cursors above/below
• Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Arrows: Box selection
• Ctrl+D: Select next instance
  • Shows in scrollbar
  • ESC/Click to clear
  • Ctrl+U: Unto Cursor
  • Case Sensitive / Match whole word
• Ctrl+F2: Select all instances
• F2: Symbol rename

Searching

Local File Search

• Ctrl+F: Find
• F3/Shift+F3: Find Next/Previous

Global Search

• Ctrl+Shift+F: Global Search
• Collapse/Expand
• Up/Down: Search History

Setting: Search Excludes

Regex Search/Replace

Find/Replace preview

Search Editors / Save

Multiroot Workspace

Why?

• Manage multiple apps at the same time.
  • Multiple Customers
  • One modularized product

How?

• Add Folder To Workspace

Interesting effects:

• Show app dependencies
• Symbols are copied to other apps
• Navigate through code

Use "Tasks" to automate any task for you.

Settings

• UI: @modified
• Sync Settings

Snippets

How? Snippets in VSCode

Disable Snippets

Copy snippets & make your own

• All snippets: c:%UserProfile%.vscode\extensions<extension>\snippets

Distribute to your own: create a snippet-extension

Extensions

• Error Lens
• Docs View

MSDyn365BC.Code.History

• Author: Stefan Maron

• Goal: See all history of business central in one glimpse

  • All Versions
  • All Localizations

• Where to find it? https://github.com/StefanMaron/MSDyn365BC.Code.History blog: https://stefanmaron.wordpress.com/2021/01/13/msdyn365bc-code-history/

• How to use it?

  • Every version = commit
  • Every localition = branch

• What?

  • Just browse through default code
  • Find all (test) apps code
  • orkspaces
  • What is changed in Belgian localization?
  • What is changed from one CU to the other

• Don't forget: When Stefan updates his repo, all you need to do it "sync"

Resources

• Stefan Maron's MSDyn365BC.Code.History

• Matt Bierner

  • Twitter: @mattbierner
  • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Code2020/videos

• Blog Waldemar Brakowski:

  • 9 Tips for developig reporst in AL
  • 13 VS Code Settings to save you time in AL

• waldo

  • blog: waldo.be
  • Github: waldo1001
  • Twitter: @waldo1001