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Tag: Extensions

Welcome to the CCMS project.

Less than two months ago we was here: During this session in Poznan, me and Duilio presented two tools that … More

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

My MCP server for Dynamics 365 Business Central Administration now supports handling PTEs.

One of the top requests that many users of my MCP server for Dynamics 365 Business Central Administration (code named … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: prepare your extensions to support the Copilot Chat.

Every Microsoft product now has an integrated “Copilot” on it and Dynamics 365 Business Central follows this road too. The … More

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

“Hacking” Google Antigravity to develop AL extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Some weeks ago Google introduced Antigravity, its new agentic development platform powered by Gemini 3 (but also supports Claude Sonnet … More

AI, AL, Antigravity, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, Google, llm, MSDyn365BC, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central: use sequential GUIDs when possible.

I think that everyone of you know what a GUID is. A GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) is a 128-bit number … More

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

Evaluating LLMs performances for your AI task: presenting my LLMEvaluator.

After my session about creating AI solutions in Dynamics 365 Business Central using Managed vs Custom AI at Directions EMEA … More

.NET, .NET Core, AI, Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, llm, MSDyn365BC, Performance

Introducing YAMPI: the MCP server for Dynamics 365 Business Central administration.

At the end of November 2024 Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard and open-source framework created with the goal to standardize … More

AI, AL, Azure, Cloud, Copilot, D365BC, delegated admin, DevOps, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, MCP, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Security, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central: debugging agent sessions.

In the latest AL Language extension for the 2026 release wave 1 release (runtime 17.0) Microsoft introduced the possibility to … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: previewing PDF files in web client using the new ExtendedDataType = Document.

With the new Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 2 release (v27) and AL Language version 16.x, Microsoft introduced the … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: accessing Early Access Preview in online sandboxes.

With the upcoming 2026 Wave 1 release wave for Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft is finally opening the possibility to … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: documenting a business process in the AI era.

Like probably many of you, in the last months of the year I’m in the middle of some really huge … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new MaskedType enum field-level property.

In Dynamics 365 Business Central UI pages that contains sensitive informations, sometimes a common requirement coming from customers or auditors … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: update sandbox environments to preview versions.

It’s now a common practice for many partners that, when the public preview period for a new Dynamics 365 Business … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: controlling the Summary system part.

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release (version 26) introduced a new Summarize capability for Copilot. With this feature a … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises: accessing embedded in-app resources from runtime packages.

Starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 release (more precisely from Business Central version 25.2) Microsoft has introduced … More

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

Visual Studio Code and autodiscovery of MCP servers: better to stay in control.

Visual Studio Code in latest versions has an autodiscovery feature for MCP servers installed in your local machine that automatically … More

AI, Copilot, Extensions, GitHub Copilot, MCP, Visual Studio Code

Vibe coding: yes or no?

The term “vibe coding” refers to a coding approach where you instruct an AI to generate computer software code based … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: finally we’ll have TRUNCATE table in SaaS.

In the last 3 years I wrote many times about the need to have the possibility to execute a massive … More

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

Using Azure AI Foundry Model Router in your AI projects.

Some months ago Microsoft introduced into its AI toolset in Azure AI Foundry an interesting service called Model Router. The … More

AI, AL, Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, llm, MSDyn365BC, Serverless

Dynamics 365 Business Central: checking for breaking changes on obsoleted, internal and OnPrem objects.

When creating AL extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central, you could have one (or more than one) of the following … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-prem: be careful when referencing .NET assemblies across versions.

Last week I received a an help request from a partner that was in the middle of a Dynamics 365 … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: automatic PTE unpublishing after update.

Until today, when you have frequent updates of PTEs in a given tenant and you publish version N of your … More

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

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 … More

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

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 … More

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

Agent, AI, AL, Cloud, Copilot, D365BC, DevOps, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, MSDyn365BC, 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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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

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 … More

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

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 … More

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

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