Dictionary Data Type – Business Central

Hey Readers,

It has always been a recurring process where in Microsoft keeps on launching some new Data Types and we as part of Business central family keeps on thinking like what’s the use if we are all able to accomplish everything and moreover if we already have had something for it.

The only answer to the above question is the performance. Keeping performance in mind MS keeps on brining something new so that our end customers are all happy with the amount of time system is taking to execute the operations.

Dictionary Data Type is one of the data type added which is all set to replace the temp table concept which has always been in use in our day to day developments. The only limitation is it’s not going to hold the records.

Have a look in the below Code and how Item Description is assigned and then further extracted.

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