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Downloading symbols for business central 13 after customizing base app from c/side

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Posted on by faran1 115


Hi Community, I need some help, I have customized the Base App in Business central 13 using C/SIDE but I'm not able to download symbols for them in VS code. I have tried
the following command but no luck.

finsql.exe Command=generatesymbolreference, Database=<DatebaseName>, ServerName=<ServerName>\<Instance>


Any help would be appreciated. thanks

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    Suresh Kulla 50,280 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    That will generate symbols that do not download, for download you need to use VS Code.  You also need to enable "Enable loading application symbols at server startup " in the administration to generate symbols.

    Please check this link

    docs.microsoft.com/.../devenv-running-cside-and-al-side-by-side

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    faran1 115 on at

    Hi Suresh, thanks for your reply.

    I have already enabled that property in the administration. Previously when I ran this command the generated log file said the command ran successfully but it didn't download symbols for customized objects.

    Now I have changed the command to generatesymbolreference = yes because the default value is no, now after running this command on cmd, the object designer gets open and points to the customized object and command doesn't execute.

    thanks.

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    faran1 115 on at

    It got solved after I deleted the Microsoft_Application.app and Microsoft_System.app files from al packages and downloaded symbols again.

    thanks.

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