Methods

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• AL complex types: With AL complex types, you can return most types from procedures in AL for Business Central
• Create Handler Methods for Automated Tests: Create test codeunits, test methods, and test pages to test your application. To automate tests, create special handler methods for UI interactions.
• Method Attributes in AL for Business Central: Learn how AL method attributes modify method behavior in Business Central and review the syntax for applying attributes and arguments.
• Overload AL Procedures by Signature: Learn how AL procedure overload resolution uses names, parameter counts, orders, types, and implicit conversions to select a procedure at compile time.
• Progress Windows, Message, Error, and Confirm Methods: Using specialized methods in AL for Business Central to display messages and gather input from the user.
• Working with AL methods: Methods also known as procedures are a fundamental programming element in AL for Business Central.

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• #216 knowledge(style): a new procedure that changes the page’s current record should take it as var Record (code change): “procedures that modify a record should take the record as a var parameter”

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