Last week at DynamicsMinds conference, after my session about Azure Functions I’ve received an interesting question: in a context of … More
Category: .NET
Dynamics 365 Business Central and .NET 6
The upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 version introduces an important server change: the NST server now runs … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and bulk inserts
Today I’ve discovered that not everyone knows how Dynamics 365 Business Central (but also Dynamics NAV) handles inserts on the … More
Timer Trigger Azure Functions: handling retry policies
In my last post about serverless architectures for decoupling integrations between Dynamics 365 Business Central and external applications, I’ve talked … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: queue usage to decouple your serverless integrations
In the last weeks I had lots of requests and discussions by partners in the Dynamics community asking for a … More
Azure Functions: getting the client IP address
When using Azure Functions, sometimes is required to log the IP address of the client calling your function app. Unfortunately, … More
Testing multiple Azure Functions apps running together with Microsoft Tye
If you frequently work with serverless architectures and expecially with Azure Functions, I think that you know that splitting a … More
Do you have Azure Functions in production? Update your Azure Functions apps to use runtime version 4.x
On December 3, 2022, .NET Core 3.1 will be retired. As a result, Azure Functions runtime versions 2.x and 3.x, … More
Testing Azure Functions or Dynamics 365 Business Central API calls performances with BenchmarkDotNet
In these days, for a big cloud-based project, I had the need to conduct an assessment of the different cloud … More
Create a link to an Application Insights query programmatically
In our telemetry session at Directions EMEA in Milan we have presented how you can directly use Dynamics 365 Business … More
Cloud workflows: is the low-code approach always a good solution?
Last week I wrote a post providing a solution for interacting with files saved in an FTP server directly from … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling files via FTP on SaaS
I’ve written lot of time ago a post on how to save a file from Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and availability tests
Dynamics 365 Business Central is an absolutely reliable SaaS service that runs on the Azure platform. It’s a cloud service … More
Using custom C# code when creating Custom Connectors for Power Platform or Logic Apps
If you’re doing integrationw between Dynamics 365 Business Central or other applications and the Power Platform, I think that sometimes … 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
Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure made it to the Best Microsoft Azure Books of All Time
I’m happy to announce that our book, “Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure: Re-architect and rebuild your applications using … More
Handling the “HTTP 429 – Too Many Requests” error when calling external services
I think that many of you that creates integrations with external services could have the pleasure to know the HTTP … More
My session at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020: 15 tips to follow when deploying Azure Functions to production
Thanks to all the attendees that followed my session yesterday at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020. We saw 15 tips that … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: save a file to an SFTP server
In our recently released “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” book, in the Azure Function chapter I’ve provided a full example … More
Using Deployment slots for your Dynamics 365 Business Central Azure Functions
In my session at Ignite Tour Milan in January I’ve talked (with a real demo too) about how to use … More
CI/CD for .NET with GithHub Actions
We manage all our internal projects with Azure DevOps (projects not only related to Dynamics 365 Business Central). All our … More
WPC 2018: Dynamics 365 Business Central is here and you should join me!
Yes… Dynamics 365 Business Central appears on the list of topics of the main Microsoft developer-oriented conference in Italy. From … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premise): Extension for printing external documents
A week ago I wrote a post for answering a question regarding how to print external documents from Microsoft Dynamics … More
Serverless processing with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Azure Functions
Deploying Microsoft Dynamics NAV to the Azure cloud (IaaS) is now one of our first proposal on every new customer. … More
NAV Extensions: using custom DLLs from Azure Functions
I need to give a response to many of you that have asked me many questions regarding the “Microsoft Dynamics … 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
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
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
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
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
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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