Azure Function SQL Trigger: how to use it (and why it can be useful in your Business Central projects)

This post comes as a follow-up of my “Serverless Integrations for Dynamics 365 Business Central” training I’ve done yesterday in … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using secrets in JsonObjects.

When working on integrations with external APIs or external services in general, sometimes you need to insert credentials or secrets … More

An MCP server for Dynamics 365 Business Central? Why not?

If you’re following the latest AI trends, you know that the word “MCP” is emerging a lot in the last … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: previewing a file from AL.

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release (version 26) and the new AL Language extension version 15, it … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: YAML to JSON and JSON to YAML conversion.

When talking about data exchange between systems, probably the most common ways to represent (serialize) objects are by using JSON … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: merging PDFs online with an Azure Function.

Some days ago on an internal forum (Yammer) someone posted the following request: Is it possible in Dynamics 365 Business … More

Announcing Italian BC Day 2025.

Yes, we have it! We’re very proud to announce that the first Dynamics 365 Business Central Italian Day will take … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the misterious “Page Summary Provider” codeunit.

Have you ever had the need to dynamically retrieve the details (name, page type, caption, visible fields, related tooltips etc.) … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using resources in AL extensions.

The new AL Language version 14.2 introduces the possibility to package resources inside an AL extension and use those resources … More

Restrict Azure Logic Apps’s workflows access only to Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Some week ago I wrote an article explaining how you can restrict Azure Logic Apps workflows access to certain IP … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: HttpClient and remote certificate validation future changes.

I think that everyone of you know that the AL HttpClient data type provides a data type for sending HTTP … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 release: ToolTips support on Query data items.

The upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 release (version 25) has a lot of new features in the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: setting the default browser to open during AL development.

This is a quick post for showing you a tip (or something similar 😀 ) that I’ve discovered not a … More

Running inline C# scripts in Azure Logic Apps workflows

Last week I wrote a post explaining the new Inline Powershell action available in Azure Logic Apps standard. With this … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 release: Query.SaveAsJson… and why not more?

When talking about integrations with REST services or, more generally speaking, as a cross-platform data exchange protocol, working with JSON … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: subfolding AL symbols

This is a very quick post, borned from a training I had today with a partner. When showing a demo … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central v25: what’s coming for developers.

Microsoft has publicly announced today the plans for the 2024 Wave 2 release of their Dynamics 365 and Power Platform … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the power of NumberSequence

Assigning number series to documents seems a simple task to users but in an ERP (where concurrency is always present) … More

Are you ready for the most mystical conference of the year?

3 days until DynamicsMinds 2024 in Portoroz (Slovenia) starts, a 4 days community conference covering Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: clarifications on changing the identity of an app.

When talking with some partners trying to approach the AppSource marketplace during the last week, I’ve discovered that for many … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: “this” is a nice AL addition.

If someone is familiar with C#, probably knows that the this keyword is used to refer to the current instance of … More

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: 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

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

Azure Functions and Data Parallelism: things to know.

When working with code on some complex data operations, sometimes to improve performances it’s possible to use code techniques like … 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

Azure Functions: .NET 7 and .NET 8 local debugging bug on Visual Studio Code.

This is a very quick post signaling a bug that makes me spending hours of troubleshooting. If you’re developing Azure … 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

Azure Functions and Blob Triggers: be careful on the binding type.

This post is borned to signal a problem that I’ve recently found in a customer and I think that sharing … 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: 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

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: 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