AL Preprocessor Explorer

Visual Studio Code extension for discovering and navigating AL preprocessor symbols with ease.

🔍 Features

• 📄 Scans your entire workspace for AL preprocessor directives like #define, #if, #elif, #if not.
• 🧠 Intelligently extracts symbols even from complex conditions (and, or, not).
• 📁 Groups occurrences by object type (Tables, Pages, Codeunits, etc.).
• 🌳 Displays all symbols and their usages in a custom Explorer Tree View.
• ✨ Click-to-navigate directly to the exact location in your .al files.
• 🧼 Ignores commented lines to ensure accurate symbol detection.
• 🕵️‍♂️ Clean, modern UI with collapsible tree nodes.
• 🔤 Automatically sorts symbols alphabetically for quick discovery.

🚀 Getting Started

1. Install the extension from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
2. Open a Business Central AL project in VS Code.
3. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P).
4. Run: AL: Explore Preprocessor Symbol.
5. Check the "AL Preprocessor Explorer" view on the left side panel.

📸 Screenshots

🧭 Find the Command

🌲 Explorer Tree View

Shows all detected preprocessor symbols in a collapsible tree, grouped and sorted:

📂 Example

#define CLEAN26

#if not CLEAN26 and CLEAN27
    // conditional logic
#endif