Why does AL:Go! stop at BC 16?

Miklos_Hollender
Miklos_Hollender Member Posts: 1,629
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Old NAV hand now trying to learn BC dev. Docus say use the AL extension in VSC, type AL:Go! but it only targets BC 2 to 16? Is this outdated?

Also please can anyone link to any up-to-date dev docs? Not the syntax, but more like how to compile and install and make an extension work live.

Another doc I would be interested in is how to install the standard code, so that we can use the debugger on standard code.

Any good books on all this?

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  • vaprog
    vaprog Member Posts: 1,173
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    The runtime version that goes with BC 27 (platform and application) is 16.

    Please check out the link in my previous post.

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  • vaprog
    vaprog Member Posts: 1,173
    edited 2025-11-04

    I am not sure what you are talking about, but in BC there are 3 relevant version numbers:

    • Paltform
    • Application
    • Runtime

    It is likely the version numbers you gave refer to the runtime.

    see Currently available runtime versions

  • Miklos_Hollender
    Miklos_Hollender Member Posts: 1,629

    Thanks, vaprog! What I am talking about is that I am currently learning AL dev, and the docs say start with running AL:Go from Visual Studio Code, and it then asks me which BC version to target, and the largest selectable version is 16. The current runtime runs up to 24 I think.

    Or people don't use AL:GO much anymore?

  • vaprog
    vaprog Member Posts: 1,173
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    The runtime version that goes with BC 27 (platform and application) is 16.

    Please check out the link in my previous post.

    (Recent changes in the styling of this forum made it difficult to even recognize there is a link by showing it just a tad darker, but if you hover your mouse over it, it gets underlined and by this reveal that there's more to it.)

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