Stefan Maron

Everything that comes to my mind, mostly related to Business Central, AL development and everything around it.

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I Can Turn Off My Code. I Can't Turn Off Yours.

Setting RunTrigger to false on Insert, Modify, or DeleteAll doesn't just skip your own logic — it skips everyone else's subscribed to that table too. That's why running every trigger has to be the default, and why the real fix for the performance cost isn't a developer's judgment call at all: it's the platform checking, per execution, whether there's any code to run in the first place.

Weekly Recap: August 7-14

AL Runner shipped ~85 PRs closing correctness gaps and hardening the pipeline, bc-code-atlas's global_id now lets a self-hosted instance bridge into the public one to follow calls into Microsoft's base app, the AL Language Tests suite grew by answering AL Runner's own open questions, and the Linux fast lane got a week of real-world hardening.

AL Runner v2: What Feedback Told Me v1 Was Missing

v1 worked for the use cases it was built for. Companies actually using it told me that wasn't enough — most real extensions can't be unit tested at all without running against real Microsoft or ISV code. That feedback drove a clean v2 cut. It also changed how the runner fails: anything it can't support now throws loudly instead of quietly passing.

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