Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 release wave 2 is Released!
Just a small reminder for you that yet another major release has been thrown our direction: v17 aka “Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2“. Old news, I know. But I blame the pandemic ;-). I already...
View ArticleUpgrade to Business Central V17 (part 1) – The Workflow
Recently, we have been going through upgrading our 65 apps to the newest release (v17). You might wonder: upgrade? Wasn’t this supposed to be seemless?Well, let me explain what we did, how we handle...
View ArticleVisualize app.json dependencies in VSCode (using GraphViz)
If you’ve been following the latest and greatest from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you must be aware about “what’s cooking in Microsoft’s Lab“. In short, Microsoft is working on a...
View ArticleBusiness Central V17.1 fails your pipeline .. and that’s OK
A few days ago, we upgraded our product from 17.0 to 17.1. We had been looking forward to this release, because we usually never release a product or customer on an RTM release of Business Central. So...
View ArticleRun your own AppSource Validation
Quite honestly, I’m fully into the process of getting our apps (about 30 of them) to AppSource. We chose to have OnPrem implementations first, basically to get the experience, and also because it just...
View ArticleDownload all Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Source Code with PowerShell
You might wonder: why would I need this? Why would I need to download source code of Business Central, while I can simply access it through the symbols when I’m working in VSCode – or even better,...
View ArticleModel Driven software development for Business Central with “mdAL”
You might already have seen my session on DynamicsCon about Design Patterns. During that session, I mentioned a tool “mdAL”. If not .. well, here it is (starting at the mdAL part):This tool has seen...
View ArticleCheck Customer License in an OnPrem db – from the web client
This is my first post of 2021, so I’d like to take the opportunity to wish all of you all the best, all the health, all the safety, and .. may we finally meet again in person in 2021! I’d be very happy...
View ArticlePublish & Run Current Object from VSCode – with a single command
I’m not writing a blog about every single (new) command in my “CRS AL Language Extension”. But this Sunday, I added an interesting one. One that I should have had created for a long time – but simply...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics 365: 2021 release Wave 1 plan
It’s that time again! Recently, Microsoft released their plans for the next major version for Dynamics 365. Quite some time ago, I started with commenting on that (I actually did that because one of...
View ArticleWhich API’s are available in my Business Central environment?
Here’s a short post with a small tip about something a lot of you probably already know. How’s that for an intro .If you remember these posts:Getting not-out-of-the-box information with the...
View ArticleSetting up docker containers with apps from AppSource
For a long time, we have been looking for a solution to be able to set up a docker environment, and then download the necessary apps from AppSource. Why?For different reasons. Like, to set up a...
View ArticleSo .. I did a stream ..
Not too long ago, I asked about opinions on whether I should just keep blogging, or if I should also jump on the streaming-wagon like many already did .. and start streaming content about business...
View ArticleBusiness Central Development Life Hacks
I haven’t exactly blogged much lately, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been active for or in the community. You might have seen my previous blogpost for example, where I explored the wonders of...
View ArticleDesign Considerations for Upgrade Codeunits
Recently, in our product, we enabled support for the new “Item References” in Business Central. Basically meaning: when upgrading to the new version of our product, we wanted to:Make sure our code...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Publisher program
The last couple of months, there has been quite some questions from ISVs (and especially the “old” ISV’s) on how to register their apps in their specific situations. Just to name a few:I only have...
View ArticleStabilize your Job Queue – a few tricks
For a few people, this will be a very “current problem”, for other, that have suffered through years of “unstable” NAS and Job Queue for that matter .. this upcoming blogpost might be interesting. The...
View ArticleA somewhat easier way to generate a DGML Dependency Graph of your Business...
You might have read my post “Visualize app.json dependencies in VSCode (using GraphViz)” where I explained “another” way to generate a dependency graph. Another than what? Well – other than the DGML...
View ArticleDocumenting your Business Central (custom) APIs with OpenAPI / Swagger
For reasons that are not too important, I am trying to find a way to “describe my custom APIs”. You know. You’re at a project, you had to implement an integration with a 3rd party application, and you...
View ArticleBusiness Central Default APIs are not localized – or are they?
Good news.You’re probably all familiar with the great work Microsoft is doing on providing us a huge set of useful out-of-the-box API’s. No? Well, you can find all the information right here: API(V2.0)...
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