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Category: Dynamics 365 Business Central
Dynamics 365 Business Central: creating a DGML dependency graph for your extensions
Have you ever had the need or the requirement to create a graphical diagram of the building blocks of your … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: thecontextSensitiveHelpUrl parameter and malicious urls
This is a very quick post for signaling a potential problem when you distribute your apps (per-tenant extensions) to your … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and .NET add-ins (part 2): why .NET Standard?
As a follow-up to this post, I’ve received some questions related to why we talked about .NET Standard if the … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and .NET Framework add-ins: it’s time to change
With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Microsoft is continuously moving the server to .NET Standard and if you’re … More
Why you should start considering Azure Batch for some of your Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud workloads
At the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Launch event, in his wonderful session about the Administration Center, Dmitry … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: native support for barcodes
When working with an ERP, using barcodes on different reports is a common practice and I think that every ERP … More
Deleting Application Insights telemetry data on-demand with Powershell
I think that everyone of you knows that telemetry is an important aspect to take into consideration when working with … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central connector for Power Platform update
This is a very quick post just to notify all of you that are using Microsoft Power Platform with Dynamics … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the reportextension object
One of the noisy limitations on Dynamics 365 Business Central until version 17.X was the impossibility to extend standard reports. … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: ClearAll is evil, again!
When Dynamics 365 Business Central version 16 was launched, I remember that a weird problem was signaled to Microsoft related … More
Microsoft Universal Print is finally ready (yes, also for Dynamics 365 Business Central)
Today at the first day of Ignite, Microsoft has finally announced that Universal Print is finally available for everyone. Universal … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: per-tenant extensions and conflicts with standard Microsoft’s fields
Some weeks ago I received two emails from contacts where they submitted me two interesting “bad problems” that blocked them … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: are your AppSource apps ready for 2021 Wave 1 release?
As I think you already know, with Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 release wave 2 (version 15) Microsoft has marked … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: returning complex types from AL
I think that every AL developer dreams that a day AL will be a full Object Oriented programming language like … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: SOAP and Basic Authentication deprecation
If you’re using web services with Dynamics 365 Business Central version, from version 17.X you should always check the notifications … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: automatically import custom report layouts with extensions
Do you love reports? Personally, NO! 🙂 But that is, as a Business Central developer I think that sometimes (forced … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: point in time restore of a Production environment
Yesterday Microsoft has officially released one of the most requested feature for the Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS environment: point … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Batch API calls and max number of operations
The standard (and for what I can see most used) way of using Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs is by … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: the impact of tableextensions
I think that everyone of you already knows that when working with Dynamics 365 Business Central, table extensions are killers … More
Using Powershell to retrieve your Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry
Telemetry, telemetry, telemetry… this is an hot topic in your developer’s and admin’s life in the cloud. We have talked … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: per-tenant extensions changes
Do you remember this slide? This was (and is) one of my most shared slides ever (from me, from third-party … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: be careful when using the OnCompanyOpen trigger
Today I was helping a partner on discovering performance issues on its Dynamics 365 Business Central online tenant. When analyzing … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: creating retention policies from AL
Starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2 (v17) administrators can define retention policies for tables to specify how … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: small clarification on who can install apps
Talking in these days with some partners, I discovered that it’s not so clear how to handle the possibility to … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using snapshot debugging
One of the top requested features for Dynamics 365 Business Central from a long time is absolutely one: debugging the … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling commits behaviors on events
When working with extensions in Dynamics 365 Business Central, you’ve always to keep in mind that you’re now in a … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: ISV telemetry for custom table’s usage
When developing extensions for AppSource, every partner has its own licensing model. There are extensions that are free, others that … More
How much my Application Insights service costs?
This is a question that I’ve received many times and also this morning I had a discussion with a partner … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: new features for performant code
In the training I’ve done to some partners last week, when talking about performances I shared an example of an … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using Azure Key Vault for your secrets
Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: I think it’s the time to clean your app.json file
Do you remember this post I wrote lots of time ago? This post described the new Microsoft’s Application app introduced … More
Tips for handling a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant at best
Handling a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant in a cloud environment is not exactly like handling it on an … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Extension Management page and the “Delete Extension Data” option
This is a very quick post just to help on clearing doubts related on a new flag that Microsoft has … More
Creating lightweight Teams bots with outgoing webhooks and Azure Functions
Microsoft Teams is becoming always more a central point for the everyday’s work on many of us now and often … More
