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Any plans to remove C/AL from NAV

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Posted on by Tharanga Chandrasekara 23,116

Hey,

I had this question for sometimes and could not find a complete answer for this. Is there ANY plans or discussion going on in Microsoft to remove C/AL programming from NAV and bringing C#  to NAV programming ? 

I got this feeling because recently they introduced .NET interoperability and it is like moving some part of C/AL functionality to C#. 

Just want to know is there any plans or discussions going on.

Thank you and best regards,

TharangaC

PS:  Filters does not contain Dynamics NAV 2015. Who should we contact in order to inform this? 

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  • keoma Profile Picture
    keoma 32,675 on at
    RE: Any plans to remove C/AL from NAV

    yes, but let's do it on that forum. why not?

    the next big step in the right direction is NavGate, the new Development Environment from Idyn (Developers of OMA Tools). It looks like Visual Studio, it feels like Visual Studio with all the features of modern development environments. So using that you would not have c#, but a massive better environment. Maybe the enterprising developers of Idyn think forward about a new programming language for Nav, who knows ...

    http://www.idyn.nl/products/Navgate.aspx

    http://www.mibuso.com/pdinfo.asp?FileID=388

    https://www.facebook.com/IDYN.NAVaddons

    http://dynamicsuser.net/blogs/reijer/archive/2014/10/08/a-new-development-environment-for-nav.aspx

  • Tharanga Chandrasekara Profile Picture
    Tharanga Chandrasekara 23,116 on at
    RE: Any plans to remove C/AL from NAV

    So basically there is no official discussion on this.

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    keoma Profile Picture
    keoma 32,675 on at
    RE: Any plans to remove C/AL from NAV

    hi tharanga,

    really nice question. worth a bigger discussion.

    but, there are only rumours from time to time.

    nav 2013 and 2013 r2 were technically big steps (dimensions, ...). nav 2015 is a big step in useability (word reports, mobile framework) and upgrade/migration process.

    maybe there is a little chance that the next version 2017(?) is the next big technical step. if MS decides to change the language then with a hybrid version (c/al and c#). otherwise partners, developers, customers, projects would face a breakdown. a big point is, that most of the nav developers with many, many years of experience have no or nearly no experience with modern languages like c#.

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    Miguel Llorca Gómez Profile Picture
    Miguel Llorca Gómez 7,019 User Group Leader on at
    RE: Any plans to remove C/AL from NAV

    As far as I know, all the comments about that are still only comments :-))

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    Mohana Yadav Profile Picture
    Mohana Yadav 60,159 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    RE: Any plans to remove C/AL from NAV

    Please read this blog

    markbrummel.wordpress.com/.../dynamics-nav-is-moving-to-c-get-ready-to-follow

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