A ToolBox program is a single file with global variables, procedures and the main begin end; section for starting the program. The grandfather of AL is Pascal, and the base structure of a ToolBox program is very similar to a classic Pascal program.

AL in the ToolBox is a subset of real AL, there are many things you can do in the ToolBox, but it’s only a fraction of what you can do with the AL language in Visual Studio Code.

The shortest possible ToolBox program looks like this:

Actually, it can be made even shorter, you can omit the begin end; and just do:

The following snippet is a skeleton example of a script with globals variables, procedures and a main section: