Business Central 2024 wave 1 (BC24): Folding usings (Collapses all of the using statements)

Dynamics 365 Business Central

The article introduces the public preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 release wave 1 (BC24) and provides a link for more information.
The author mentions their intention to test and share new features that can be helpful.
The article focuses on the feature of "Folding usings" in the AL Language extension changelog Version 13.0.
"Folding usings" allows for the collapsing of all the using statements when a file is opened in the editor.
The AL Namespaces feature, released in Business Central 2023 release wave 2 (BC23), is briefly mentioned as a way to organize code and reduce naming conflicts.
The using directive is explained as a way to refer to objects in other namespaces without using the fully qualified name.
In BC24, the "editor.foldingImportsByDefault" setting can now be used for AL Language, allowing for the automatic collapsing of import ranges.
The article mentions that the feature is currently only effective for local files and not for standard objects opened using AL Explorer or AZ AL Dev Tools.

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