Do you know the wonderful C/AL (ops, now AL) command called TRANSFERFIELDS? This command permits you to copy all matching … More
Tag: AL
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
Dynamics 365 BC Wave 2 Release: What happens now?
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 release date is just around the corner and there are many aspects of … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: access modifiers
If someone of you know C# or other object oriented languages in general, you know also that those languages have … More
“Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” book: please wait a bit more…
We have received in this last month lots of requests about our upcoming “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” book, published … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: data encryption changements for Isolated Storage
I suggested many times in the past to every partners I met and to all the attendees to my AL … More
Preview of Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 release wave 2: few notes
As you already knows, in October Microsoft will launch what is called “Dynamics 365 Business Central Release Wave 2” (platform … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how to detect if an extension is running on SaaS or on-premise
When developing extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central, you could have scenarios where you want to execute a procedure or … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central + Azure Cosmos DB for globally distributed integrations
Today’s post wants to give an overview of a successfully deployed scenario of a geo-distributed integration between Dynamics 365 Business … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using OData V4 Bound Actions
I’ve promised this post to some attendees of my last Dynamics 365 Business Central development workshop in Microsoft Italy (c/o … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using DotNet assemblies on a Docker container sandbox
I think that everyone of you already knows that calling custom .NET DLLs in your extension’s code is not supported … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and per-tenant extensions: check page control names between platform upgrades
I’ve talked a lot in the past about pros and cons of per-tenant extensions (PTE) in Dynamics 365 Business Central. Despite … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: improving the user’s search experience for your extensions
As you already knows, with the new web experience in Dynamics 365 Business Central the menusuite object is disappeared and … More
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and multiple cloud sandboxes
The new April 2019 release for Dynamics 365 Business Central introduced lots of new features and one of the most … More
Bye Bye C/AL, welcome to the AL era…
This was in the air (Microsoft has clearly announced more than an year ago that in a year or so … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central CU04 and SOAP Web Services changements
As you already knows, Microsoft has rolled up in these days the Cumulative Update 4 for Dynamics 365 Business Central. … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central February 2019 Dev Preview is full AL: how to create extensions now?
As publicly announced yesterday, the February 2019 Developer Preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central launches the first public version of … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Microsoft Teams integration part 2
About one week ago I’ve written a post on how to integrate Dynamics 365 Business Central with Microsoft Teams and … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Microsoft Teams: how to integrate them?
Microsoft Teams is the new Microsoft’s collaborative platform for team working and I’m sure that quite soon everyone of you … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and direct printing
This seems to be one of the hottest “problems” when using Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: actually you cannot directly … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Storing sensitive data for your extension? Use the Isolated Storage!
This is a quick post to signal a “worst practice” I’ve see today in a partner’s extension. This extension needs … More
Visual Studio Code and team-working: recommending extensions
There’s an interesting feature in Visual Studio Code that I see it’s quite unknown to all but that internally we … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise and .NET assemblies: things to know
I’ve written in the past how to use .NET assemblies in AL for your on-premise extensions and all is also … More
Using Azure DevOps for managing your Dynamics 365 Business Central projects
All the people that were on my Dynamics 365 Business Central Development courses for Microsoft Italy (and that will be … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: show/hide fields on pages
Showing and hiding fields on pages based on conditions seems to be a very easy task for a classic NAV … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using the Event Recorder for developing
When you are developing an extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central and you need to interact with the standard Microsoft’s … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: publishing a web service from extensions
In these days I received a (not so common I think) request: how can I have an extension for Dynamics … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide is out!
At the beginning of this year I was preparing the content for the first of a serie of workshops for … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
