Visual Studio Code can be considered just a simple and powerful code editor as is.
What gives this application its sixth gear and credentials as a real modern development environment is the AL Extension created and engineered by the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Team.
The AL Extension is Built using the standard Visual Studio Code API; it can be deployed in the following ways:
- Directly as a downloadable package from the Visual Studio Code marketplace. Targeted only for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- Manually as an installable package (VSIX) from the product DVD. Targeted only for on- premises Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Even if they might look like the same, they are consistently different, since VSIX is coming from the on-premises product DVD and is currently just a cut-off, limited version from the fall of 2017 and does not contain all the enhancements and new features made by the modern development team up to now. These features will be exclusively...
