With the GUI-based admin console deprecated for newer versions of BC. I ran into a bit of a hiccup when I was trying to set up a development environment. I was getting the following error in VSCode when I tried downloading symbols.

To fix this I followed the steps below

  • Opened Business Central Administration Shell as an Administrator
  • Type Get-NAVServerInstance to get the instance name if not already known
  • The server instance returned is BC230
  • Now use the following PowerShell command to enable developer services
    • Set-NAVServerConfiguration BC230 -KeyName DeveloperServicesEnabled -KeyValue true
    • Stop-NAVServerInstance BC230
    • Start-NAVServerInstance BC230
  • Once the above steps are completed
  • I went back to VSCode and clicked on Download symbols
  • I was able to download the AL Packages

If you have any feedback or questions about how to set up your own development environment for Business Central you can always add a question or a comment to this post.