Change Log for developers for version 5.0 SP1?

Alex_Chow

Couldn't find it anywhere on Partnersource. For programmers who are Old School and like to merge manually instead of using toolkits.

kine

It is not part of the install DVD? There is Changes in NAV 5 0 SP1.doc file with the description of changes...

Additionally, there is file "nav_50sp1_app.chm" but the pages are not working for me. But there is some list of new tables, modified tables etc.

Alex_Chow

kine wrote:

It is not part of the install DVD?

Where do you see it?

There is Changes in NAV 5 0 SP1.doc file with the description of changes...

That doesn't count. It tells you a description of what was changed, but no actual code changes where you have the BEFORE and AFTER in C/AL code.

kine

Ok, than you need just to export all objects having version list 5.00.01 and same object list from 5.00 into text and compare them... you will have the BEFORE and AFTER description... ;-)

Alex_Chow

They used to release the change log of the specific areas that were changed. Are you saying they don't release that anymore?

Waldo

I have written a blog post once: How to get a good picture on someone else's development. May be that can help?

Alex_Chow

I know there are merge tools around. There's one in the Developer Toolkit. You can even filter the SP1 objects and export them to text and use some merge tool to merge the objects. There are some nice merge tool available to download from this site.

I'm asking where I can get the code change log that's release by Microsoft :evil:

<I need to calm down> :roll:

Waldo

You can blame them (and you should ), or you can find solutions.
Araxis merge gives you an html report (with drill down) in about 10 minutes in the way I showed in my blog... .

So there you have your code changes .

Alex_Chow

Waldo wrote:

You can blame them (and you should ), or you can find solutions.
Araxis merge gives you an html report (with drill down) in about 10 minutes in the way I showed in my blog... .

So there you have your code changes .

I found the solution already. It's this:
http://www.mibuso.com/dlinfo.asp?FileID=408

But, I'm looking for something straight from MSFT without having to go through hoops.

Waldo

OK 8)

DenSter

So you'd rather spend days jumping through the political hoops trying to get Microsoft to give you something you can create yourself in 10 minutes? :-k Honestly Alex, sometimes I wonder

Alex_Chow

No political hoop jumping for me. 8)

Just asking the question on the forum to see if anyone is able to find it.

DenSter

maybe one of those MVP dudes can help you

Waldo

DenSter wrote:

maybe one of those MVP dudes can help you

I hate those guys

David_Singleton

Alex Chow wrote:

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But, I'm looking for something straight from MSFT without having to go through hoops.

I 100% agree with Alex on this. The Change Log has been a part of Navision as long as I can remember, going back to the DOS days. The log means that someone has locked down the code and decided what is what. The log is generally reviewed by a number of people, and a lot of bugs are found by the time the final log is released.

What it means is another step towards automation, and removing more people form the loop.

ara3n

The Log for 5.0 SP1 will look horrible. here is why.

5.0 version had the Canadian English, Canadian French language packs.

In 5.0 SP1, they have removed these languages, They have a different released for Canada, and Mexico. Since Langauge caption are part of the objects, the change log will have a lot of garbage.

This makes it easy to compare with W1 version and merging with other countries, but it's a change they have done. I have asked them if the Canadian/mexican version will have different objects sets as US, or will it just contain the language packs, but no work from MS.

So if a company has in US and Canada, what should they do? They make these changes without explaining.

David_Singleton

Hi Rashed, I guess that sort of explains the US situation.

Though still we could get a log file for the W1 version which would be helpful.