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Why not start improving Business Central APIs definitions for supporting AI?

If you’re working on creating AI solutions, I think you know that one of the main building blocks you need…

AI, AL, API, Cloud, Copilot, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, llm, MSDyn365BC

Azure Logic Apps: are you handling large blobs? Keep memory usage under control.

When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (and generally speaking on a lot of other serverless projects) it’s quite common…

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Power Automate, Serverless

Dynamics 365 Business Central: compressing API responses at max.

In the last part of the session I’ve done with Duilio at BC TechDays this year on how we handle…

AL, API, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Visual Studio Code

High performance workflows with Azure Logic Apps: using Azure SQL as storage provider.

In the past I wrote many posts and also done a lots of sessions at different conferences about how to…

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Serverless, SQL

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using a static IP address to access APIs.

Sometimes in Dynamics 365 Business Central projects you can have very strict security requirements for integrations with third-party systems. One…

.NET, Azure, Azure Functions, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Security, Serverless, Visual Studio Code

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent helps you stay strong on the bike…

There is one thing that is mandatory for me to complete during the week (and especially during the weekend): bike…

Agent, AI, AL, Cloud, Copilot, D365BC, DevOps, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, MSDyn365BC, Visual Studio Code

Azure Function SQL Trigger: how to use it (and why it can be useful in your Business Central projects)

This post comes as a follow-up of my “Serverless Integrations for Dynamics 365 Business Central” training I’ve done yesterday in…

Azure, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Integration, MSDyn365BC, Serverless, SQL, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using secrets in JsonObjects.

When working on integrations with external APIs or external services in general, sometimes you need to insert credentials or secrets…

AL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, JSON, MSDyn365BC, Security, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central agent capabilities: how much does they cost me?

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release (version 26) Microsoft officially launches the Sales Order Agent, the first…

AI, Azure, Cloud, Copilot, Copilot Studio, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Semantic Kernel

An MCP server for Dynamics 365 Business Central? Why not?

If you’re following the latest AI trends, you know that the word “MCP” is emerging a lot in the last…

Agent, AI, AL, Azure, Cloud, Copilot, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, llm, MCP, MSDyn365BC, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release: the state of SOAP deprecation.

I think that many of you know that quite a long time ago Microsoft raised an alert saying that exposing…

API, Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Telemetry

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the problem of large data deletion – part 2: AlterKey

Yesterday I talked about the always more increasing need to perform large data deletion in SaaS for some tables and…

AL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Performance

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the problem of large data deletion.

In the last two months I was invited to speak at two partner’s events and during those events I had…

AL, Azure, Azure SQL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, NAV, Performance, SQL

Dynamics 365 Business Central: previewing a file from AL.

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release (version 26) and the new AL Language extension version 15, it…

AL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central: YAML to JSON and JSON to YAML conversion.

When talking about data exchange between systems, probably the most common ways to represent (serialize) objects are by using JSON…

AL, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, JSON, MSDyn365BC, Visual Studio Code, YAML

Azure Logic Apps: create Standard Logic App projects in Visual Studio Code from Azure portal export

How many times you had the need to create a new Azure Logic App workflow starting from an existing one?…

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, Serverless

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1: checking app compatibility with future versions directly in Admin Center.

When an upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central major release is approaching (usually at least a month before so) Microsoft starts…

Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC

Do you have strict security requirements for your workflows? Azure Logic Apps is the solution.

Low-code workflows for integrations between systems are a quite common scenario in many projects, from small to enterprise companies. And…

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, Power Automate, Security, Serverless

Dynamics 365 Business Central: merging PDFs online with an Azure Function.

Some days ago on an internal forum (Yammer) someone posted the following request: Is it possible in Dynamics 365 Business…

.NET, .NET Core, AL, Azure, Azure Functions, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, MVP, Serverless, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 (v26) release: are you ready for the massive deprecations?

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release (version 26) will be here in just 3 months (public preview expected…

AL, Cloud, Cloud Migration, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC

Are local LLMs ready for production applications?

A Large Language Model (LLM) is an advanced type of artificial intelligence that uses deep learning techniques to understand, generate,…

AI, Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, llm, MSDyn365BC, PrivateAI, Semantic Kernel

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Change Log Management event changes.

I think that everyone of you know that Dynamics 365 Business Central has a built-in Change Log functionality that permits…

AL, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Security

Announcing Italian BC Day 2025.

Yes, we have it! We’re very proud to announce that the first Dynamics 365 Business Central Italian Day will take…

AL, Azure, Cloud, Conference, D365BC, Dynamics 365, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MCT, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, MSDyn365BC, MVP, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the misterious “Page Summary Provider” codeunit.

Have you ever had the need to dynamically retrieve the details (name, page type, caption, visible fields, related tooltips etc.)…

AL, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Visual Studio Code

It’s the end of the year and I’m thinking about AI…

I usually use the short holiday working period between Christmas 🎄and the new year for fully recharging my batteries and…

AI, Azure, Cloud, Copilot, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, llm, MSDyn365BC

Dynamics 365 Business Central: what I want for Santa is…

Often when approaching the end of the year we love to contact our Dynamics 365 Business Central customers and asking…

AL, Azure, Azure SQL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, MVP, Performance

Azure Logic Apps: stateful and stateless workflows overview and performance comparison.

Azure Logic Apps Standard is a new deployment option for creating and running automated workflows in a single-tenant environment. This…

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Serverless

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using resources in AL extensions.

The new AL Language version 14.2 introduces the possibility to package resources inside an AL extension and use those resources…

AL, Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central: be careful on your upgrade code.

It’s the second time that I see partners asking informations about the following message coming from Dynamics 365 Business Central:…

AL, Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Telemetry

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Partner access control to SaaS tenants.

Dynamics 365 Business Central version 25 introduces a new feature in the environment’s Admin Center panel: Partner Access. By default,…

How Dynamics 365 Business Central handles incoming web service calls (for dummies).

In the last two days I was in Assago (Milano) at the WPC Conference, probably the most important IT conference…

AL, API, Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, OData, Performance

AI, Agents… and now?

As I think you all have noticed, we are in the middle of a revolution in the IT world where…

AI, Azure, Cloud, Copilot, Copilot Studio, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Power Platform, Semantic Kernel

Dynamics 365 Business Central: AppSource and PTE apps under the hood.

I think that everyone of you know the difference between a Dynamics 365 Business Central AppSource extension and a per-tenant…

AL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Power Automate Find Records action demistified.

When talking about Power Automate or Azure Logic Apps workflows for Dynamics 365 Business Central, I often see that the…

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Integration, MSDyn365BC, Power Automate, Power Platform

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Cloud Migration FAQ (Directions EMEA version)

At Directions EMEA 2024 in Vienna I talked a bit about the Cloud Migration tool during the Microsoft Regional Session…

Azure SQL, Cloud, Cloud Migration, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, MsDynNAV, NAV, SQL

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