Yesterday evening I’ve received a message from a user asking me if something has changed in the AL language extension. … More
Tag: AL
Dynamics 365 Business Central: loading demo data for your extensions
I’ve received in the last days a request from a forum user asking for a way to automatically loading demo … More
Visual Studio Code and poor performances with AL language
I saw different posts on forums in these days about issues related to poor Visual Studio Code performances when using … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: checking user permissions on specific objects
With the refactoring done in Dynamics 365 Business Central for better supporting the SaaS environment, is not quite easy to … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central, AL compiler and .NET Core
At the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Virtual Event yesterday a not so much emphasized slide appeared: Yes, the new … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: obsoleting the WITH statement
As you ever used the WITH clause in C/AL or AL language? There are lovers of this clause and there … More
Automating the creation of work items in Azure DevOps (from Powershell and from Dynamics 365 Business Central)
If you’re using Azure DevOps in yor organization for the entire product lifecycle, you know for sure that you can … More
Read-scale out with Azure SQL and Dynamics 365 Business Central
In the last month I had the chance to test the read-scale out feature of an Azure SQL Database with … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: AL and the internalsVisibleTo property
Yesterday I was talking with a partner that developed an extension with a quite complex logic declared in a codeunit … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using Camera in AL
Curious thing… last week a follower asked my if it’s possible to use the Camera with Dynamics 365 Business Central … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using AL rulesets to customize code analysis
I think that many of you are familiar with this topic, but I’ve received today a question related to AL … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: loading Configuration Packages from AL (part 2)
More than one year ago I wrote this post on how to import directly from AL code a Configuration Package … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: save a file to an SFTP server (the Logic App way)
Yesterday I’ve provided a solution for saving a file generated directly from a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant to … 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
The new life with an app-based ERP
Some days ago I wrote an article for Simplanova website for summarizing the biggest technical changes that every partner should … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: something more about dependency propagation
One week ago I’ve written a post about the new “proxy app” (Microsoft.Application.app file) introduced with the 15.3 version (you … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and the new Microsoft Application “proxy” app
If someone of you has installed or upgraded a Dynamics 365 Business Central database instances with the new 15.3 version, … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: please always check AL warnings!
This is a quick post that want to describe a curious thing discovered 3 days ago. A partner contacted me … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 1: FAQ about updating apps for v16
I’m receiving a lot of questions from partners about what they will have to do for their existing apps in … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 1: price management with interfaces
The upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 1 release (version 16) introduces the concept of Interfaces in AL. An … More
Something new about Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 1
As I think you know (I’ve posted this on my Linkedin account some days ago) you can now start testing … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: obsoleting events
I’ve written a lot in the past about handling breaking schema changes on extensions and the best practice to use … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling BLOB fields on APIs
I’m not a big fan of using BLOB fields on the Dynamics 365 Business Central database, but there are many … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and the “mistery” of Library Apps
More than an year ago I wrote this article for Simplanova website mentioning some “architectural choices” when moving a C/AL … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: again about obsoleting fields
More than an year ago I’ve written this post explaining how to handle breaking schema changes on a production Dynamics … More
“Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” is out!
Just in time for Christmas, I’m very happy and proud to announce that the book “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” … More
LinkedObjects on Dynamics 365 Business Central: be careful now!
One of the common (and basic) way to create integrations between systems in Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the past was … More
Webhooks with Dynamics 365 Business Central
When integrating external applications with Dynamics 365 Business Central, one of the classical way is to use APIs (standard or … More
SD Extension Pack for Dynamics 365 Business Central Developers
On all the Dynamics 365 Business Central training activities I’ve done in the last year for Microsoft Italy, I’ve always … More
Visual Studio Online preview: coding in the browser seems promising.
Today at Ignite 2019 Microsoft has launched the public preview for Visual Studio Online, a managed cloud-based development environment based … More
“Azure Functions for Dynamics 365 Business Central Developers” webcast recording
The recording of my last webcast for Areopa Academy is available on their YouTube channel. Again, sorry for the initial … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: debugging the Base Application
Yesterday at our “Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 What’s new” event in Microsoft Italy we quickly saw hot to … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: TRANSFERFIELDS and Obsolete fields
Do you know the wonderful C/AL (ops, now AL) command called TRANSFERFIELDS? This command permits you to copy all matching … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: checking Users Plans in Wave 2 release
Checking which plan is assigned to a specific user (Essential, Premium, Team Member) is become a quite different thing with … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2: customizing the Base Application
In a previous post I described how you can start building extensions for the upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 … More
