Stefano Demy

As you ever used the WITH clause in C/AL or AL language? There are lovers of this clause and there are developers that hate using this clause (I’m in this second category), but despite every personal opinion the WITH clause is widely used in code and…

If you’re using Azure DevOps in yor organization for the entire product lifecycle, you know for sure that you can handle also all your project management activities by using work items , boards , backlogs , sprints and so on. I’ve talked about that in…

When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (but also on Azure applications in general) it’s a best and recommended practice to send telemetry data to the Azure Application Insights service for centralize monitoring. I’ve talked about that in the…

For the first time, this Saturday (May, 23) 365 Saturday will host a full day event totally dedicated to Dynamics 365 Business Central . The agenda below will take place according to GMT 0 Timezone respectively: 8:00 – Track Inventory with…

In the last month I had the chance to test the read-scale out feature of an Azure SQL Database with Dynamics 365 Business Central. Others have talked about this opportunity in the past and I want to share here my experience. The Read Scale-Out feature…

Yesterday I was talking with a partner that developed an extension with a quite complex logic declared in a codeunit with visibility = Internal (so the object can be accessed only by code in the same module, but not from another module). Now they have…

In the webcast we had this Monday for Microsoft Western Europe about using Azure DevOps for managing Dynamics 365 Business Central projects , when talking about the best practice to set policies for your branches, there was an interesting question: can…

Curious thing… last week a follower asked my if it’s possible to use the Camera with Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS. My answer was obviously YES but he pointed me to a link on Docs where how to implement the Camera was explained, but only for the…

Thanks to all the attendees that followed my session yesterday at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020 . We saw 15 tips that I suggest to follow when moving your Azure Functions from a development/testing environment to a real production environment on an enterprise…

I think that many of you are familiar with this topic, but I’ve received today a question related to AL code analysis and I think that also a response here can be helpful. Every Dynamics 365 Business Central developer now knows for sure that in…

More than one year ago I wrote this post on how to import directly from AL code a Configuration Package ( .rapidstart ) file. This code uses the ImportRapidStartPackageStream method declared in the “Config. Package – Import” codeunit as follows…

When going to the cloud, saving costs while maximizing performances is always a goal to reach but sometimes also not so easy to achieve. I’ve talked a lot in the past about how to move your databases to the cloud, how to use Azure SQL Database for…

In these days I’ve received some messages from partners (and I saw on forums opened questions too) that signal that, during the upgrade to 15.4 release of a SaaS tenant, some custom extensions deployed on sandboxes are unpublished. Is this a problem…

Yesterday I’ve provided a solution for saving a file generated directly from a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant to an SFTP server by using Azure Functions . I’ve to admit that this is my preferred way because it gives me more freedom, scalability…

In our recently released “ Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central ” book, in the Azure Function chapter I’ve provided a full example on how to upload and download a file to Azure Blob Storage from a SaaS environment (this was one of the top request…

After my last webcast about Azure Functions , I received an interesting question: how can I quickly deploy a function to Azure? Or maybe to different Azure subscriptions or regions? We saw in the webcast how you can deploy an Azure Function by using…

In this terrible period where COVID-19 is changing our days (and our life) and where homeworking is becoming a must, I think it could be helpful for some of you to know that Microsoft has opened the preview of a nice Visual Studio Live Share feature…

Some days ago I wrote an article for Simplanova website for summarizing the biggest technical changes that every partner should start thinking and managing in order to be able to work efficiently with the new Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central platform…

One week ago I’ve written a post about the new “proxy app” ( Microsoft.Application.app file) introduced with the 15.3 version ( you can read the post here ). This app uses a new property called propagateDependencies that permits you to specify whether…

In my session at Ignite Tour Milan in January I’ve talked (with a real demo too) about how to use Deployment slots when you need to deploy a web application in the cloud and you have the need to separate the production environment from a “testing” environment…

If someone of you has installed or upgraded a Dynamics 365 Business Central database instances with the new 15.3 version, I think that you could have noted that a new Microsoft extension is appeared on the Extensions Management page: What is…

This is a quick post that want to describe a curious thing discovered 3 days ago. A partner contacted me on a social network (yes, I answer also on my socials but please don’t abuse on questions here, I have an email address…) and said me that he had…

I’m receiving a lot of questions from partners about what they will have to do for their existing apps in order to be ready for Dynamics 365 Business Central version 16. I’ve summarized here the Q&A: Does Dynamics 365 Business Central introduces…

The upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 1 release (version 16) introduces the concept of Interfaces in AL. An interface is used when you want to decide which capabilities need to be available for an object, while allowing actual implementations…

As I think you know (I’ve posted this on my Linkedin account some days ago) you can now start testing your apps with Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 1 release (version 16 ) by creating a new online sandbox targeting the new preview version. …