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The Dimension Value OnDelete check, why dimension sets are never cleaned up, what Dimension Correction really changes, and an AL codeunit to find every table pointing at a value.
Learn AL the Way Developers Actually Learn — With Someone Guiding You There's no shortage of ways to learn AL development. YouTube videos, blog posts…
I'm excited to announce the release of the eighth booklet in my MB 820 Exam Cram series: Tables and Table Extensions in Business Central ! Why This Topic…
I'm excited to announce the release of my new book: MB 820 Exam Cram: Install & Upgrade Codeunits in Business Central ! This focused, practical guide is now…
AL development is at the root of customizing and extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a powerful ERP solution for businesses. This post explores…
The new "Continue" keyword arrived in AL with runtime 15, or BC 2025 wave 1. Curious how the "Continue" keyword in AL can turbocharge your MSDyn365BC projects?…
With the Business Central 2025 wave 1 (runtime 15) we can now bypass getting the token for a JsonObject to get the value of a key. Use one of the GetValue…
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:
The introduction of the overloaded IncStr function in the AL compiler for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, which now accepts an increment value greater…
With Business Central 2025 wave 1 we get a new page type: UserControlHost. These type of pages can only host one control in the content area, of type…
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…
With Business Central 2025 wave 1 Microsoft introduces List and Dictionaries of Interfaces. Take a look at a 5 minute video I recorded on this topic and an…
With the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release arriving on April 1, 2025, developers get a new tool in their AL toolbox: the ToText() method. This…
Master error handling in MB 820! Episode 18 of 'Let's pass MB 820' dives into Try Functions & Collectible Errors. Watch now to boost your AL skills! In this…
Learn essential report development skills for BusinessCentral: ✅ Additive changes vs breaking changes ✅ Report extensions ✅ Triggers for report extensions…
In this episode, you will learn about debugging AL projects, securing your IP, generate documentation on the fly with ALDoc and make it available via a github…
In the NAV days the access to the ERP system was done through a combination of a license file and permission sets. You would have requested the license from…
The "Page" is the object type in Business Central designated to represent the user interface for different entities. In my latest Youtube video you will learn…
Last video I looked at table objects, the backbone for making data persistent in the database. But what do you do if the schema defined in dependent…
Interfaces were introduced a few versions ago but now you can extend one or more existing interfaces when you declare an interface. When implementing an…
Today I'm starting a new blog and video series dedicated to the new certification exam for AL developers: MB 820. The main topic of this blog is the Install…
99% of the time I use the same coding patterns, and same commands, same data types ... but once in a while you find something new and wonder. Hmmm, if…
FieldGroups, originally a concept from Dynamics NAV, has undergone a migration to VS Code and AL. With the latest release of Business Central in 2023 Wave 2…
Earlier in February 2023, I blogged about how AL compiler talks to SQL Server. Please visit my earlier blog here. I explained how basic AL language statements…
Many of us, AL developers, have seen the launch of Github Copilot late last year and some of us have already tried it. I recently started to work a few weeks…
There are about 3500 apps for Business Central in App Source as of this moment built by ISVs for the Business Central community and who knows how many PTEs. As…
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…
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…
Hello readers! Recently I have been working on a customization for a customer with the goal of changing the out of the box Positive Pay export for a Bank…
One way to make available data from Business Central to different parties and users is to leverage Azure Storage. Customers will need to have an Azure Portal…
In the latest versions of Business Central one could find an Advanced Settings page. In the Navigation Bar, click on the magnifying glass icon on the address…
When using web services or API exposed entities you might find useful to request the application service to grab the latest version of the underlying data. The…
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PowerApps Intro What is PowerApps? PowerApps is a service for generating cross platform (iOS, Android, Windows Store) applications. It allows connectivity to…
Recently Microsoft announced that dotnet can still be used with installations on premise of Dynamics 365 Business Central. However, if our extension is to make…
When you turn On PerTenantExtensionCop in Visual Studio Code and you forgot to create a Permissions.xml file, you get a compile error in your extension. In…
So much to read, so little time … the speed at which Microsoft adds new Business Central and AL features is overwhelming :) In this blog I'll demonstrate how I…