Dynamics 365 Business Central and PropagateDependencies

More than one year ago (March 2020) I wrote a post explaining a new propagateDependencies app property introduced with version … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: PTE + SyncMode problem and troubleshooting

I think that you know that Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 (version 19) introduced the possibility to do … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: overriding the extension’s resource policy for a particular tenant

Last week at Directions EMEA I had the pleasure to meet and talk with many of you in person and … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs and Data Access Intent

One of the greatest advantages on using Dynamics 365 Business Central on a SaaS environment is certainly the availability of … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: changing the way of throwing Errors

After the “What’s New” webcast I’ve done two days ago, I’ve received questions on some new features introduced with Dynamics … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Trusted Apps list management

Starting from today, Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 (version 19) is available and all new customers will automatically … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the AL profiler

With the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 release (version 19), silently a new hidden feature was introduced: the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: cleaning sensitive configurations when copying production to sandbox

When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central on real projects, I think that it’s quite common to have the need … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: new indexing features on 2021 Wave 2 release

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 release (version 19) introduces some new indexing features that you can use on … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing resource exposure policies for extension’s code

I think that everyone of you knows that with Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions your code is by default protected … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: SetLoadFields performances with reference passing or value passing parameters

I’ve written in the past some posts with tips on how to write code for performances and how to be … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: automatically update library apps when updating your main app

Yesterday I had a chat with a Partner that was stuck with a problem on some SaaS tenants. Problem can … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: creating a DGML dependency graph for your extensions

Have you ever had the need or the requirement to create a graphical diagram of the building blocks of your … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: thecontextSensitiveHelpUrl parameter and malicious urls

This is a very quick post for signaling a potential problem when you distribute your apps (per-tenant extensions) to your … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: native support for barcodes

When working with an ERP, using barcodes on different reports is a common practice and I think that every ERP … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the reportextension object

One of the noisy limitations on Dynamics 365 Business Central until version 17.X was the impossibility to extend standard reports. … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: ClearAll is evil, again!

When Dynamics 365 Business Central version 16 was launched, I remember that a weird problem was signaled to Microsoft related … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: per-tenant extensions and conflicts with standard Microsoft’s fields

Some weeks ago I received two emails from contacts where they submitted me two interesting “bad problems” that blocked them … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: are your AppSource apps ready for 2021 Wave 1 release?

As I think you already know, with Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 release wave 2 (version 15) Microsoft has marked … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: returning complex types from AL

I think that every AL developer dreams that a day AL will be a full Object Oriented programming language like … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: automatically import custom report layouts with extensions

Do you love reports? Personally, NO! 🙂 But that is, as a Business Central developer I think that sometimes (forced … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Batch API calls and max number of operations

The standard (and for what I can see most used) way of using Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs is by … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: per-tenant extensions changes

Do you remember this slide? This was (and is) one of my most shared slides ever (from me, from third-party … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: be careful when using the OnCompanyOpen trigger

Today I was helping a partner on discovering performance issues on its Dynamics 365 Business Central online tenant. When analyzing … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: creating retention policies from AL

Starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2 (v17) administrators can define retention policies for tables to specify how … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using snapshot debugging

One of the top requested features for Dynamics 365 Business Central from a long time is absolutely one: debugging the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling commits behaviors on events

When working with extensions in Dynamics 365 Business Central, you’ve always to keep in mind that you’re now in a … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: new features for performant code

In the training I’ve done to some partners last week, when talking about performances I shared an example of an … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using Azure Key Vault for your secrets

Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: I think it’s the time to clean your app.json file

Do you remember this post I wrote lots of time ago? This post described the new Microsoft’s Application app introduced … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Extension Management page and the “Delete Extension Data” option

This is a very quick post just to help on clearing doubts related on a new flag that Microsoft has … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: adding partner’s telemetry on your apps

I’ve written a lot in the past about using Azure Application Insights for monitoring a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant … More

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

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: 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