When talking with some partners trying to approach the AppSource marketplace during the last week, I’ve discovered that for many … More
Category: Visual Studio Code
Dynamics 365 Business Central: “this” is a nice AL addition.
If someone is familiar with C#, probably knows that the this keyword is used to refer to the current instance of … More
The 2nd edition of “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” is here…
More than one year of work, many updates and reviews, lots of energies spent. But now I’m proud to announce … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: support for multiple extensions to same target in the same app
I talked about this upcoming feature with some of you last week, but now that Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new Table Key module
One of the announced features for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 release is the possibility to enable or … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the Azure File Share module
I wrote in the past some articles about how it’s important to use Azure Storage for storing files in a … More
Azure Functions and Data Parallelism: things to know.
When working with code on some complex data operations, sometimes to improve performances it’s possible to use code techniques like … More
Azure Functions: .NET 7 and .NET 8 local debugging bug on Visual Studio Code.
This is a very quick post signaling a bug that makes me spending hours of troubleshooting. If you’re developing Azure … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new SecretText data type.
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) and the new AL language version 12 introdocues a new … More
Me @ Directions EMEA 2023
In a bit more than a month Directions EMEA 2023 Conference will start in Lyon. It will be as usual … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: attaching VS Code Debugger from client
One of the long awaited feature that you will see in Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (v23) … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Query objects, AppSourceCop and breaking changes.
When developing Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions for AppSource, it’s mandatory to activate the AppSourceCop code analyzers in order to … More
Introducing ALDoc: a new command line tool for generating reference documentation for AL extensions
With the latest pre-release version of the AL extension, Microsot shipped a tool called ALDoc for generating reference documentation for … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central V23: page actions and the Scope property
I think that every Dynamics 365 Business Central developer knows that you can add actions to a page object. Actions … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetries for Azure Functions
In my Azure Functions session at latest BC TechDays in Belgium I spent some minutes showing the Azure Functions module … More
Azure Functions: how to debug remotely in production
Last week at BC TechDays in Belgium, I’ve received a lot of technical questions after the two sessions I’ve done. … More
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 2023 Wave 1 release plans pillars
As on every wave period, Microsoft yesterday released the plans for 2023 Wave 1 wave for its Dynamics 365 and … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: retrieving Azure AD User informations via AL
I saw many partners in the past days asking how to retrieve informations about the current Dynamics 365 Business Central … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: AL permission sets and name length errors
This is a very quick post to answer a question sent to me privately today by a Dynamics 365 Business … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and AL language: it’s the time to give us namespaces!
Naming objects is one of the hardest problems in software development. In programming, a namespace is a technique used to … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: new AL language hidden features
The new AL Language version 10.1 (released in these days) adds some small (but interesting) new features that I think … More
Me @ Directions EMEA 2022
In a month or so (exact starting date is November 9, 2022) a new edition of Directions EMEA conference will … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2: changing the way of promoting actions
The upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 release (alias version 21) will introduce some improvements on the user … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the Dynamics 365 Translation Service Visual Studio Code extension (preview)
Have you ever used the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Translation Service (DTS)? The Microsoft Dynamics 365 Translation Service (DTS) is hosted … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: custom Onedrive integrations
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 (version 20) enhanced the integration with Onedrive for Business, the cloud storage service … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: publish full dependency tree for AL projects
When working with multiple AL extensions with dependencies in a Visual Studio Code workspace, during the development phase it’s quite … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the in-client Performance Profiler
With the upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 release (version 20), Microsoft has enhanced the AL performance profiler … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 (v20): upcoming reporting changes
In my previous post about the upcoming new features that will be out starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 … 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 PropagateDependencies
More than one year ago (March 2020) I wrote a post explaining a new propagateDependencies app property introduced with version … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: overriding the extension’s resource policy for a particular tenant
Last week at Directions EMEA I had the pleasure to meet and talk with many of you in person and … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: changing the way of throwing Errors
After the “What’s New” webcast I’ve done two days ago, I’ve received questions on some new features introduced with Dynamics … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the AL profiler
With the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 release (version 19), silently a new hidden feature was introduced: the … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: cleaning sensitive configurations when copying production to sandbox
When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central on real projects, I think that it’s quite common to have the need … More