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Tag: Extensions
Dynamics 365 Business Central: receive notifications when AppSource apps updates are available in a tenant
When you install AppSource apps in a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant, app updates are automatically handled by Microsoft during … More
The 2nd edition of “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” is here…
More than one year of work, many updates and reviews, lots of energies spent. But now I’m proud to announce … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the Page Scripting tool
If someone of you have ever worked with web applications development, probably you have earned about Playwright. Playwright is an … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: support for multiple extensions to same target in the same app
I talked about this upcoming feature with some of you last week, but now that Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 … More
How we (probably) broke limits at the #BCAIHackathon
Last week Microsoft organized the #BCAIHackathon initiative, a 3 days dedicated to create innovative solutions using generative AI in Dynamics … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new Table Key module
One of the announced features for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 release is the possibility to enable or … More
REST APIs and the importance of Versioning.
A REST API (also known as RESTful API) is an application programming interface that conforms to the constraints of REST architecture and it’s … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the Azure File Share module
I wrote in the past some articles about how it’s important to use Azure Storage for storing files in a … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how the BCApps repo is moving?
Can you see the image on top of this post? They’re not fireworks of the new year 2024 but instead … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Isolated Storage and SecretText support.
With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) Microsoft introduced a new data type called SecretText. This new … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: new additions in Excel Layouts reporting.
One of the reporting features I like the most in Dynamics 365 Business Central is the possibility to create Excel … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: remember to delete the Media orphans.
In all my trainings and sessions I always say that when you have a blob file to import in Dynamics … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Microsoft standard AI features and prompts.
The new Dynamics 365 Business Central 23.2 release unlocks the new Copilot Developer Toolkit (more info here) for creating generative-AI … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot, Azure OpenAI and real-world enterprise usage.
We are entering a new era of AI, one that is fundamentally changing how we relate to and benefit from … More
“Decoupling”: the misterious word for many Dynamics 365 Business Central partners.
In the last year I’m seeing lots of existing Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises customers deciding to move their ERP … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: is my on-premises customer ready for SaaS?
“Is my Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises customer ready to be moved on SaaS?“. “Will the SaaS platform able to … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the App Update Cadence setting.
With Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS, until now AppSource apps are automatically updated to the latest available release when a … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Retention Policies: please KISS!
No… you don’t have to spread kisses all over the world, but probably the opposite… 🙂 I think that many … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and the AllowInCustomization field property: some clarifications.
If someone of you remember, in August I wrote this post introducing the new AllowInCustomization field property that Microsoft planned … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Cloud Migration and permission sets.
When moving Dynamics 365 Business Central customers from the on-premises platform to the online platform, the absolutely recommneded way to … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new SecretText data type.
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) and the new AL language version 12 introdocues a new … More
Me @ Directions EMEA 2023
In a bit more than a month Directions EMEA 2023 Conference will start in Lyon. It will be as usual … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release: measuring the impact of the new data structure
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (v23) introduces important changes on the new data structure for table extensions … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: attaching VS Code Debugger from client
One of the long awaited feature that you will see in Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (v23) … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: start checking per-tenant extension (PTE) validation events in telemetry
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release adds the possibility via telemetry to immediately discover if per-tenant extensions (PTE) … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using the Performance Toolkit to discover performance regressions
Probably many of you knows that Dynamics 365 Business Central has a tool called Performance Toolkit Extension (BCPT). This tool … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Query objects, AppSourceCop and breaking changes.
When developing Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions for AppSource, it’s mandatory to activate the AppSourceCop code analyzers in order to … More
Introducing ALDoc: a new command line tool for generating reference documentation for AL extensions
With the latest pre-release version of the AL extension, Microsot shipped a tool called ALDoc for generating reference documentation for … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new AllowInCustomization field property
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) will introduce the possibility to add any existing table field … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release: will it be the fastest release so far?
Some days ago Microsoft publicly releases the Release Wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform products and also … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central V23: page actions and the Scope property
I think that every Dynamics 365 Business Central developer knows that you can add actions to a page object. Actions … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: changes in the default AL runtime version
The capabilities and features of AL supported by a Dynamics 365 Business Central extension are determined by the runtime version. … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetries for Azure Functions
In my Azure Functions session at latest BC TechDays in Belgium I spent some minutes showing the Azure Functions module … More
Namespaces in AL: now it’s becoming reality
Namespaces in AL was one of the top requested features from a lot of time and now we can publicly … More
Stefano Demiliani 