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Get syntax highlighting for AL in Azure DevOps

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Syntax highlighting really improves readability of source, including AL. Until now, we've had highlighting inside of the AL Language extension editor in Visual Studio Code and in GitHub, but not in Azure DevOps, which is used by a lot of partners. There, all AL code is just shown as plain text. This is inefficient because all pull request reviews and all other code investigations are a lot slower to do without.

To address the many votes for this, and increase developer productivity, we are adding support for AL syntax highlighting in DevOps, in large thanks to an effort by our German partner GOB, which created the majority of the initial syntax coverage.

Feature details

Syntax highlighting for AL in Azure DevOps is enabled by installing the following free extension in Azure DevOps:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dynamics-smb.allanghighlights

Small example of AL code with syntax highlighting in DevOps

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