Visual Studio Code - Useful extensions for AL development

AZ AL Dev Tools/AL Code Outline — is a set of useful tools in one extension. I advise you to look at a very comfortable and helpful object wizard.

Features:

• AL objects wizards
• Symbols browser
• AL symbols outline panel
• Symbols tree view
• AL code generators
• Code actions
• Action images browser
• Documentation comments support
• Code analyzers rules viewer
• Document syntax visualizer

Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=andrzejzwierzchowski.al-code-outline

A powerful tool that brings us the familiar Object Designer. Sometimes it seems to me that it is much more convenient than C/AL Object Designer.

Features:

• List Overview of all AL objects in your project: based on symbols (*.app) and your local .al files.
• List Event Publishers from symbol objects and local files, browse them in the same way as objects.
• List Event Subscribers from symbol objects and local files, browse them in the same way as objects.
• Event List view: browse Event publishers of a specific object. Standard events are shown for tables and pages.
• List Unit Tests available in your own workspace files.
• Export list to CSV: current view (objects/events/subscriptions) including all records and visible columns — respecting filters — is exported.

Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=martonsagi.al-object-designer

Impossible to imagine working with GIT without this extension. List of features so vast that I just put in a quote

GitLens supercharges the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more.

Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eamodio.gitlens

Useful tools for testing and translation, also interesting variant report creation tool.

Features:

TRANSLATIONS

• Automatically create XLIFF files for languages other than es-US
• Snippets for translations, captions, labels and other UI texts
• NOTE: The comment section is used for the translations

TESTING

• Snippets for testing
• Tools to generate testing codeunits and procedures (Under Development)
• Working on features to automatically create test procedures

REPORT CREATION

• Snippets to create a report. It includes the AL file, the RDL file and a buffer table
• The report snippet generates a fully runnable report

Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ClipDynamics.al-language-tools

Comfortable snippets for variables.

Features:

• Easy variable assignment
• Go to global/local variables — like in the C/SIDE environment.
• Sort Variables
• Fix keyword casing

Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rasmus.al-var-helper

Pack of custom snippets and tools. The automatic renaming function is one of the main advantages of this extension according to Prefix/Suffix naming requirements.

Features:

• CRS: Run Object (Web Client)
• CRS: Run Object (Tablet Client)
• CRS: Run Object (Phone Client)
• CRS: Run Object (Windows Client)
• CRS: Rename - Current File
• CRS: Rename - All Files
• CRS: Reorganize - Current File
• CRS: CRS: Reorganize - All Files Note - "Reorganize" will move a test-codeunit to the test-folder
• CRS: Search Microsoft Docs
• CRS: Search Google

Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=waldo.crs-al-language-extension

This extension quickly searches (using ripgrep) your workspace for comment tags like TODO and FIXME, and displays them in a tree view in the explorer pane. Clicking a TODO within the tree will open the file and put the cursor on the line containing the TODO.
Found TODOs can also be highlighted in open files.

Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfuggly.todo-tree