At the beginning of this year I was preparing the content for the first of a serie of workshops for…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: loading Configuration Packages from AL
Today I’ve spent few times handling a (not so common I think) scenario where from an extension I need to…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: parsing a CSV file using CSV Buffer
A question received today was the following: is it possible from my extension in Dynamics 365 Business Central asking a…
NAV 2018 and Dynamics 365 Business Central: Is Rapidstart too slow? This is the fix.
In an internal mailing list today was asked a question regarding Rapidstart packages in NAV 2018. Many users and partners…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: target levels in extensions development demystifyed
When you develop an extension with Visual Studio Code and the AL language, in the app.json file you can specify…
Execute a PATCH call from an Extension by using AL and HttpClient
If you work with REST APIs, you already know that you’ve two HTTP methods for updating resources: PUT: updates an…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: noisy problem in UsageCategory and ApplicationArea related to Search
I’ve see many AL developers with the same problem when developing an extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central: they create…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how to check if your Extension is running on a trial tenant
An interesting question in an insider talk some days ago was how to check from AL code if my extension…
Dynamics 365 Solution Update Management live event
A quick post to announce that Microsoft will hold a live webinar on the Dynamics 365 YouTube channel to help…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Overview of October ’18 Release
The NDA regarding some topics is officially finished today and Microsoft has published an official document that answers many questions…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: object prefix for AppSource extensions Q&A
Answers to a post-course question regarding object prefixes in extensions for AppSource: Object prefix must be registered with Microsoft (at…
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…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how to detect if your extension is running on a Sandbox
During our Extension Development workshops for Dynamics 365 Business Central, some developers are start asking for scenarios where in my…
Dynamics NAV: printing external documents and merging PDF files
These are old topics and someone has written on a solution for this in the past, but after some forum…
Using SQL Data Sync with Microsoft Dynamics NAV on-premise and Azure SQL Database
In many Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations we have situations where the NAV database is often “coupled” with a second database…
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Advanced ApplicationArea
A quick post to try making clarification about a topic that I see every day is quite confusing. Microsoft Dynamics…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: loading data in custom tables
Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365BC) is growing in popularity in these months and when a customer starts to move its…
Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions Development + NAV on Azure Workshop on Microsoft Italy (stage 2)
After the full stage 1, I’ll wait you tomorrow again in Microsoft Italy in Milan for the second slot of…
Developing Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions: use code analysis to prevent strange errors.
You’ve developed a marvellous 😀 extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central and tested it on your development sandbox without problems. Now,…
Backup your NAV on-premise database to Azure Blob Storage
In these days we had an internal discussion with our marketing department in order to increase the Azure adoption of…
Developing NAV / Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions with real-time collaboration
At Build 2018 Microsoft has showed the new collaborative features introduced for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, called Visual…
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the problems with the ApplicationArea tag
Some users have reported that in the actual online release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central there are some standard…
Dynamics NAV and the strange FaultCode=InvalidSecurity error
A quick post for answering a user question regarding an error when connecting to his NAV server instance using the…
“Dynamics 365 Business Central + NAV on Cloud” Technical Workshop on Microsoft Italy
I’ll have the pleasure and the honour to perform a 2 days Technical Workshop about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: in-client customizations
One of the coolest features of Dynamics 365 Business Central that for sure you’ve already seen in a classic demo…
Microsoft Flow and Dynamics NAV / Dynamics 365 Business Central: a quick clarification
In the past days many Microsoft Flow users noted that, when creating a new workflow connected to a Dynamics NAV…
GDPR features on Dynamics 365 Business Central and NAV 2018 CU 04: overview
With the release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 CU 04, GDPR support in NAV 2018 goes to a step forward.…
NAV 2018 CU 04 is out… yes, with GDPR tools!
This update contains a big improvement on managing GDPR related tasks. The link for download are these: NAV 2018 –…
Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure: SQL Server on Azure VM best practices
When talking about Microsoft Dynamics NAV installed on Azure, we have mainly two choices: use an Azure VM with SQL…
NAV Events: the strange behaviour that I hate… the
Events in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (and in Dynamics 365 Business Central) are one of the best features of the platform…
Disabling users to access NAV with specific client types
Today on forums was out this question: how to disable access to Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web Client for specific users?…
I’m a Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Business Edition user: when I will be upgraded to Dynamics 365 Business Central?
This is a question that I’ve see in the air many times in these days. Many actual Dynamics 365 for…
Dynamics 365 Business Central iOS app: few details to fix.
During the months of testing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central I’ve never played with the native mobile apps but YES,…
Yes… I’m a Microsoft MVP
April, 2 2018. This was a great day for me! After a day spent with my family in our wonderful…
Dynamics 365 Business Central is LIVE!
Today is a great day for me, mainly for two reasons. The first reason is that starting from today, Microsoft…
