Today I was helping a partner on discovering performance issues on its Dynamics 365 Business Central online tenant. When analyzing … More
Tag: Extensions
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
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
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: 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
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling telemetry with Azure Application Insights
Handling telemetry is on of the most important activities that should always be done on a Dynamics 365 Business Central … 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
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 on-premise Wave 2: changing license
I was sure this was an obvious topic until today, but after receiving so many desperate questions from partners that … 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
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