Use Test Runner app to test your app and mock your outbound API calls
If you want to see a practical walkthrough for testing outbound API calls please navigate to my latest video: The video focuses on recent innovations in…
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APIs, Azure services and getting other systems to talk to BC.
Manage external files through the External File Storage app
With Business Central 2025 wave 1 Microsoft introduced 3 new apps: External File Storage Azure Blob Service Connector External File Storage Azure File Service…
Yaml Viewer in Business Central web client
Yes, we can read now a Yaml file into a Json object, format it nicely and load content into a multiline field. See how here:
Quick launch.json generated from web client
With Business Central 2025 wave 1 we have 2 new triggers we can use to generate launch.json. Additionally, in the page Extension Management we have a new group…
Business Central 2024 Wave 2: Pull extension source from Github via action on web client
For years, getting the version of the code deployed to a specific tenant, meant a trip to github/DevOps and pulling locally the version of the code deployed to…
API testing with Postman straight from Visual Studio Code
Since I started working with Business Central APIs, Postman proved to be an essential tool for API Testing. Postman allows you to create and execute API…
What is Rapid Application Development; a closer look at rad.json
Who has not noticed a rad.json file during development or in the source code management blade in VS Code? I did, and I got curious on what is affecting this…
Invoke an Azure Function with 2 lines of AL code
In the previous blog post I explained how we can leverage one of the Twilio's products to send a WhatsApp message from Business Central. By invoking an Azure…
Business Central and Twilio: let's get the message out!
In this blog post I am going to dive into the use case of sending a WhatsApp message from Business Central utilizing Twilio framework. Most of my readers are…
Copy files from Azure Blob Storage to File System (using Azure CLI)
Preamble In the previous blog post I’ve described the usage of Power Automate when copying files from Azure Blob Storage somewhere locally. Today, we'll learn…
Using Postman to test OAuth 2.0 authorization to Business Central restful API
Intro I started to use Postman for testing Business Central API recently, concomitantly with my engagement in projects involving migrating Dynamics GP…
Move your Blobs out of the database and into Media and Media Set data type fields
"Business Central customers can use up to 80 GB of database storage capacity across all of their environments (production and sandbox), meaning that the sum of…
How to PowerApps with Business Central
PowerApps Intro What is PowerApps? PowerApps is a service for generating cross platform (iOS, Android, Windows Store) applications. It allows connectivity to…
Generate Azure Business Central containers using deployment template and parameter files
As soon as I started working with Containers, more specifically with Azure Containers, around mid December 2018, I quickly run into a few questions: how can I…