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

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