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Tag: Visual Studio Code
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: 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
Handling the “HTTP 429 – Too Many Requests” error when calling external services
I think that many of you that creates integrations with external services could have the pleasure to know the HTTP … More
AL language and the “missing documentation” warning
Yesterday evening I’ve received a message from a user asking me if something has changed in the AL language extension. … 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
Visual Studio Code and poor performances with AL language
I saw different posts on forums in these days about issues related to poor Visual Studio Code performances when using … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central, AL compiler and .NET Core
At the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Virtual Event yesterday a not so much emphasized slide appeared: Yes, the new … 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
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
Live sharing your AL code directly in the browser
In this terrible period where COVID-19 is changing our days (and our life) and where homeworking is becoming a must, … 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
“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
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
Visual Studio Online preview: coding in the browser seems promising.
Today at Ignite 2019 Microsoft has launched the public preview for Visual Studio Online, a managed cloud-based development environment based … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using DotNet assemblies on a Docker container sandbox
I think that everyone of you already knows that calling custom .NET DLLs in your extension’s code is not supported … More
Visual Studio Code and team-working: recommending extensions
There’s an interesting feature in Visual Studio Code that I see it’s quite unknown to all but that internally we … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: show/hide fields on pages
Showing and hiding fields on pages based on conditions seems to be a very easy task for a classic NAV … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using the Event Recorder for developing
When you are developing an extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central and you need to interact with the standard Microsoft’s … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: publishing a web service from extensions
In these days I received a (not so common I think) request: how can I have an extension for Dynamics … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide is out!
At the beginning of this year I was preparing the content for the first of a serie of workshops for … More
Execute a PATCH call from an Extension by using AL and HttpClient
If you work with REST APIs, you already know that you’ve two HTTP methods for updating resources: PUT: updates an … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premise): Extension for printing external documents
A week ago I wrote a post for answering a question regarding how to print external documents from Microsoft Dynamics … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how to detect if your extension is running on a Sandbox
During our Extension Development workshops for Dynamics 365 Business Central, some developers are start asking for scenarios where in my … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions Development + NAV on Azure Workshop on Microsoft Italy (stage 2)
After the full stage 1, I’ll wait you tomorrow again in Microsoft Italy in Milan for the second slot of … More
Developing Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions: use code analysis to prevent strange errors.
You’ve developed a marvellous 😀 extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central and tested it on your development sandbox without problems. Now, … More
Developing NAV / Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions with real-time collaboration
At Build 2018 Microsoft has showed the new collaborative features introduced for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, called Visual … More
