Developer tools and integrations for Business Centralhttps://sshadows.dk/https://sshadows.dk/blog/one-parser-six-tools/https://sshadows.dk/blog/one-parser-six-tools/tree-sitter-al already powers al-perf and the AL Language Server integration. Here are six more tools I'm building on top of it, from structural code search to GitHub code navigation.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/tree-sitter-al-v2-rewrite/https://sshadows.dk/blog/tree-sitter-al-v2-rewrite/The AL parser grammar hit a wall at 106 MB. The fix wasn't incremental. I rebuilt it from zero with a different architecture, and the result parses more files with 3x fewer symbols in 3x less code.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/al-perf-v2-deep-analysis/https://sshadows.dk/blog/al-perf-v2-deep-analysis/Version 2 sends the call tree, source code, SQL queries, and code structure to the AI. The result: findings that reference specific methods, call counts, and time percentages. Here's what changed and how well it works.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/al-lsp-for-agents/https://sshadows.dk/blog/al-lsp-for-agents/The AL Language Server wrapper now works with GitHub Copilot in VS Code, not just Claude Code. Plus: enriched hover with field and action properties, configurable code quality diagnostics, and a repo rename.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/one-click-performance-analysis-bc/https://sshadows.dk/blog/one-click-performance-analysis-bc/A BC extension that adds an 'Analyze with AL Perf' button to the Performance Profiler page. One click gives you hotspots, anti-pattern detection, and AI-powered insights without leaving Business Central.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/centralgauge-benchmark-update/https://sshadows.dk/blog/centralgauge-benchmark-update/A transparency report on significant fixes to the CentralGauge AL code benchmark infrastructure, including bugs in code extraction, broken tasks, and vague specs, along with updated LLM rankings.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/business-central-on-linux/https://sshadows.dk/blog/business-central-on-linux/The full story of getting Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central running on Linux using Wine, including reverse engineering Windows APIs, fixing HTTP.sys, and achieving 65% faster CI builds compared to Windows.Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/benchmark-llms-al-code/https://sshadows.dk/blog/benchmark-llms-al-code/An in-depth look at CentralGauge, an open source benchmark for evaluating LLM performance on AL code generation for Business Central, covering task design, scoring methodology, and cross-model comparison results.Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/al-language-server-claude-code/https://sshadows.dk/blog/al-language-server-claude-code/Announcing native AL Language Server Protocol integration for Claude Code, giving the AI assistant real code intelligence for Business Central development including symbol navigation, references, and call hierarchy.Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/ai-assisted-development-journey/https://sshadows.dk/blog/ai-assisted-development-journey/Reflections on using AI coding assistants like Aider, ChatGPT, and Claude for Business Central AL development, covering the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned.Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/flame-graphs-bc-call-stacks/https://sshadows.dk/blog/flame-graphs-bc-call-stacks/Introducing a free web service that converts Business Central call stacks into SVG flame graphs for performance analysis.Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/lazy-replication-nodejs-webhooks/https://sshadows.dk/blog/lazy-replication-nodejs-webhooks/Part 1 of building a lazy table replication system for Business Central using Custom API pages, webhooks, and NodeJS to replicate data to external databases like MySQL or MongoDB.Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/fix-navtechdays/https://sshadows.dk/blog/fix-navtechdays/The tale of scraping the NavTechDays attendee list from Business Central using HTML Agility Pack, fixing broken HTML with an Azure Function, and visualising the results in Power BI.Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/custom-dotnet-assemblies-al/https://sshadows.dk/blog/custom-dotnet-assemblies-al/A quick guide on using custom .NET assemblies in AL code for Business Central, based on converting an MQTT client example from C/AL using txt2al.Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/pushbullet-cal-json/https://sshadows.dk/blog/pushbullet-cal-json/Demonstrates sending cross-platform push notifications and SMS from Dynamics NAV using Pushbullet's API, JSON Buffer, and HTTP Web Request Management in C/AL.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/dotnet-in-cal/https://sshadows.dk/blog/dotnet-in-cal/A step-by-step guide to using NuGet .NET packages in Dynamics NAV C/AL, demonstrated by generating QR codes for contacts using the QRCoder library.Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sshadows.dk/blog/nav-as-a-mqtt-client/https://sshadows.dk/blog/nav-as-a-mqtt-client/How to use Dynamics NAV as an MQTT client using a .NET NuGet package to subscribe to IoT sensor topics and process incoming messages in C/AL.Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT