With the refactoring done in Dynamics 365 Business Central for better supporting the SaaS environment, is not quite easy to … More
Tag: Extensions
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
Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2: customizing the Base Application
In a previous post I described how you can start building extensions for the upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 … More
Dynamics 365 BC Wave 2 Release: What happens now?
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 release date is just around the corner and there are many aspects of … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2: on-premise and direct SQL integrations
Do you remember this post? I wrote it long time ago to explain what happens on SQL Server when you … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2: building apps on top of System Application
As you already knows from this official Microsoft post, with Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 release Microsoft has splitted … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise: checking extension’s status via Powershell
An interesting question pops out yesterday: with Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise, how can I programmatically check if a particular … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: access modifiers
If someone of you know C# or other object oriented languages in general, you know also that those languages have … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: data encryption changements for Isolated Storage
I suggested many times in the past to every partners I met and to all the attendees to my AL … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how to detect if an extension is running on SaaS or on-premise
When developing extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central, you could have scenarios where you want to execute a procedure or … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central + Azure Cosmos DB for globally distributed integrations
Today’s post wants to give an overview of a successfully deployed scenario of a geo-distributed integration between Dynamics 365 Business … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using OData V4 Bound Actions
I’ve promised this post to some attendees of my last Dynamics 365 Business Central development workshop in Microsoft Italy (c/o … More
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