Erik P. Ernst

An important key to being able to automate your Business Central builds is to have a build agent, which will run you build pipeline and create your container, compile your app, publish it and run the automated tests etc. When you use Azure DevOps,…

The first Days of Knowledge ended 24 hours ago. We had over 50 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central experts from USA, UAE, RU, NL, BE, FR, IS, CZ, DE and DK to give more than 500 participants two days of new knowledge about Business Central. I'm still…

Two days ago, my fellow MVP Mike Glue wrote a blog post about multi-level dependencies between AL extensions . Here he wrote that if you had an extension (i.e. a common library) which was used by another extension, then if you wanted to test the extension…

Right before Christmas I saw a blogpost by Jeremy Vyska which got my attention. It highlighted some changes in the December version of the Business Central on-premise licensing guide In the October version a new license included a free CAL for an External…

In May 2019, we are inviting everybody to Odense, Denmark, the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen. Here Dynamics 365 Business Central developers, consultants, sales people and infrastructure administrators will get 2 days packed with 33 sessions from…

If you, like me, have been part of the Navision community since 1990, then you have seen a lot. 10,000's of members of Dynamics User Group (prev. Navision.net/NOLUG) have come and gone again. Some stick around and with time becomes dinosaurs like me…

One of the common recommendations from both Microsoft and all the experts in our community is to create smaller modular extensions designed with either a single purpose or with a single functional area. Within software development this is often called…

Running Dynamics 365 Business Central in the cloud, means that we always have a system which is running the latest version. Microsoft will take care of the upgrades of both the standard code and any installed extensions. Before upgrading and upon any…

Having worked for a while now with Visual Studio Code and AL, I have made a number of page extensions, where I really wanted to say something bad, to who every decided it was ok to name something Control1, Control2 etc! How exactly do you know which…

Been out on a customer project last couple of weeks, so didn't have time to work on my own project. But this weekend is one of our many Spring holidays - Whitsun, which comes with Monday off. And the wife is working. So a little time to work on my AL…

In my last post I wrote about how global NAV implementations used to be done . About the two different implementation models either a Template Core or One-Database Core. It took a bit longer to get this next “chapter” ready. Especially since a lot of…

Let me start announcing that the best of the NAV bloggers and blogs here on DUG, in the period April 1 st 2017 to March 31 st 2018 is Luc van Vugt and his blog Van Vugt's dynamiXs . And which day other than the release of Dynamics 365 Business Central…

If was just taking a closer look at the different standard Extensions, coming with Dynamics 365 Business Central. They have become much more interesting, now that our Danish localization's are shipped as Extensions. When taking a look from inside the…

“The Way To Grow” used to be Navision’s slogan back in the 1990’ies. And that was how the system was sold, the ERP solution for successful and growing SMB’s (small to mid-sized businesses). Navision started to ship localized versions in the early 1990…

Yesterday 3/12/2018, MSDynamicsWorld leaked that the name of what we used to know as Dynamics 365 'Tenerife', would be Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central . Initially this was not to have been released until Thursday 3/15 at Directions ASIA in Bangkok…

You may have noticed that the future name of Dynamics NAV/Dynamics 365 “Tenerife” is going to be Dynamics 365 Business Central . But what does it really matter? In “Navision’s” 34-year history, then Navision was only (a part of) the name for 12 years…

One of the goals of Microsoft is to turn all their many localized versions into Extensions. They are taking their own medicine so to say. Just as many customers find that upgrades are a pain when they have a lot of customization's, so does Microsoft…

Back in 1987, 30 years ago, the programming language Pascal was the first programming language I learned in college. I had just started programming my own accounting system using Pascal, when I first saw PC-Plus, the mother of NAV. It was love on first…

Have you ever considered using “off-shore resources” for your projects? If you work in “the west” or should we just say in countries with an hourly NAV developer rate of USD +100, then most likely you have. Especially if you work on large projects. …

Just a few days ago I wrote that there would be no new version of Dynamics NAV this year . Instead a new Dynamics 365 "Tenerife" would be released in Spring 2018. Code name "Tenife" would become a "common platform" for both Dynamics NAV and what used…

Correction 17/09/24: There will be a new Dynamics NAV 2018 this year! There will be no new version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV in 2017. That's according to the latest announcement from Microsoft, made at Directions in Orlando yesterday. Instead the next…

When I started DUG as the Navision Online User Group in 1995, we were the only open way to communicate on the internet for both users and partners of Navision to discuss the product we all loved. Now DUG just had its 21 st birthday. The world is very…

The story goes back to 1988. In school I must write a report about an accounting system called PcPlus. It was love on first sight. PcPlus grew up and first became Navigator, then Navision. 25+ years later I'm still in love. And Microsoft continues to…

I think that I always had the community bug. Ever since I was 4-5 years old I remember that I always liked to organize our games into groups. In school I made small clubs, like one about growing cactus, which was very popular back then. I made a "club…

Today July 6th. 2016 Microsoft announced two new brand names may have to get used to: Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft AppSource . Microsoft writes that Dynamics 365 evolves the current CRM and ERP cloud solutions into one cloud service with…