NAV: Handling Record Links efficiently

This post comes from a request I’ve received today regarding a problem on opening an attachment to a Purchase Order … More

Azure SQL and Information Protection (GDPR)

I’m talking a lot on this blog about Azure SQL and its usage as a PaaS database engine for many … More

AL (at least half of its heart) will love .NET

In one of my recent posts, I’ve talked about one of the main difficulties that many partners around the world … More

NAV Developer Preview February Update

The bits are ready for playing, all details here. Very interesting the new Synchronize feature when deploying extensions and the … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Extensions and the add-in pains

In these days I was in contact with many partners trying to migrate their NAV solutions to the new Extensions … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure SQL: performance tuning

In the previous days, we’ve discussed a serie of benefits of using Azure SQL Database with NAV if you’re planning … More

Deploying NAV to the cloud: Azure VM costs

In one of my recent posts, we’ve seen how very cost-effective could be implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure. Regarding … More

NAV 2018 Cumulative Update 2 released

A fresh news: NAV 2018 CU2 is ready to be downloaded. Lots of fixes, this is the platform to start … More

An alternative Job Scheduler for NAV

As all of you (NAV developers) already knows, Microsoft Dynamics NAV has a built-in job scheduler (Job Queue) useful if … More

New book: Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

I’ve spent few words some weeks ago for previewing these, but now it’s the time for an official announcement. I’m … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV vs SAP again (reposted)

I repost here an article that comes from my old blog because there are customers that asks me something about … More

Serialize NAV objects as JSON

Today in a forum someone asks this question: can I serialize a Microsoft Dynamics NAV object (record in a table) … More

Azure SQL needs more consideration with NAV

When deploying a solution architecture with Microsoft Dynamics NAV as the ERP of your choice, you already know that the … More

NAV: DotNet types and Extensions V2

I’m seeing in these days that many NAV partners are starting “tests” in order to move some of their Microsoft … More

Handling exceptions inside NAV when using Web Services integration

In a forum post I’ve recently received a request on how to handle a scenario like the following: an external … More

Adapting old legacy apps for the cloud

The switch to the cloud is not so quick, at least here in Italy, but fortunately I can see a … More

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (aka NAV) desiderata and suggestions

In the past days a Microsoft insider asks me to share with him some requests/suggestions to share with the NAV … More

Explaining the Cloud…

New book: Building ERP solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Today is THE DATE! After 9 months of work, we’re ready to go: my new book Building ERP solutions with Microsoft … More

New book: Building ERP solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV (ITA version)

Ebbene si… ora è ufficiale e possiamo divulgare al mondo la notizia 🙂 Dopo 9 mesi (praticamente un parto!) di … More

Dynamics 365: confusion to the max!

Yesterday Microsoft has announced Dynamics 365, its new approach to cloud-based business Apps. Here you can find responses to many … More

Microsoft Project “Madeira”: my opinion

As many of you already knows, in April Microsoft has released the first public preview of Madeira, their SaaS ERP … More

Microsoft PowerApps: finally!

Today the official announcement of something cool that was in the air from a long time and that closes the … More

.NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC available for production

Exciting news are coming from Connect() 2015 event. All is well summarized here, but I want to put in evidence … More

NAV 2016: a little web client feature to have everywhere…

With NAV 2016, Microsoft has improved a lot the Web Client, starting from the startup time (now very fast!) to … More

The SQL Authentication return with NAV 2016.

As you know, in previous NAV versions (3-tier) you can access the system by using 4 different authentication types: Windows … More

An idea/suggestion: NAV Windows Client via Azure RemoteApp

This is an idea that’s rolling on my mind from a lot of time… Why Microsoft not provides a deploy … More

NAV 2016 and TryFunctions: epic fail?

When I was at Directions EMEA some weeks ago and for the first time I saw a brief explanation on … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 201X: my desiderata…

NAV 2016 was launched 5 days ago and it’s really an exciting release. Microsoft has lots and lots of plans … More

NAV 2016: please forgot the C/AL array :)

One of the hidden new feature of NAV 2016 and C/AL language is the possibility to loop on a .NET … More

NAV 2016 is here…

Just few words directly from Germany to announce you that from today Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 is available for production. … More

Directions EMEA 2015

From 5 to 7 October we’ll be in Mannheim (Germany) for the Directions EMEA event and the official worldwide launch … More