Photo credit: incurable_hippie

Okay, so we all know that we’re not privy to many bells and whistles when it comes to C/SIDE.

It’s a big thing then, when an innovation comes along which shakes the dust from years of neglect.

Well… color me badd, syntax highlighting in NAV 2009 has come to sex us up!

Try opening your favourite Codeunit (come on, I know you have one) in NAV 2009 and witness the glorious technicolor goodness for yourself.

There is a bug, or omission if you like, which means that block comments, denoted by curly brackets are not highlighted in green as they should be.

An earlier bug in the technical previews where the Documentation trigger would also be highlighted does seem to have been addressed though.

IF YourHappyAndYouKnowIt THEN
  ClapYourHands;

Goodies

It is sometimes a little disappointing that we don’t see more additions or attention to the development environment.

And we can probably count the major goodies that we’ve had on the fingers of one hand: Syntax highlighting in 2009, code indenting in 5.0, then going back even further, ability to search code , including function names in version 3.7

Some may argue for a more modern development environment.

I actually still really like the stripped down way we write and develop in C/AL.