Stefano Demy

We manage all our internal projects with Azure DevOps (projects not only related to Dynamics 365 Business Central). All our code is hosted on Azure DevOps but personally I’m using also GitHub for “external” projects or for sharing codes with the community…

On all the Dynamics 365 Business Central training activities I’ve done in the last year for Microsoft Italy, I’ve always received the following questions: why your Visual Studio Code has all these features? Are there a list of extensions that you recommend…

Microsoft has recently activated the feature for downloading a backup of a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant. A database can be exported from a selected environment as a .bacpac file, can be automatically saved into an Azure Storage account and…

Today at Ignite 2019 Microsoft has launched the public preview for Visual Studio Online , a managed cloud-based development environment based on Visual Studio Code that works in the browser. The tool is actually not finished (it’s a preview version…

The recording of my last webcast for Areopa Academy is available on their YouTube channel . Again, sorry for the initial GotoMeeting problem and sorry for my error during the first demo (function deployed on the wrong subscription) In-depth explanations…

Some months ago I’ve written this post describing an interesting solution we’ve deployed for a geo-distributed solution that involves Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS , Azure Functions and Azure CosmosDB as a final backend. I’ve received lots of…

Yesterday at our “ Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 What’s new ” event in Microsoft Italy we quickly saw hot to debug the Microsoft’s Base Application from Visual Studio Code. I’ve not spent too much time on this topic due to lack of time, but here…

Do you know the wonderful C/AL (ops, now AL) command called TRANSFERFIELDS ? This command permits you to copy all matching fields in one record to another record: Record.TRANSFERFIELDS(FromRecord [, InitPrimaryKeyFields]) TRANSFERFIELDS  copies fields…

I’ve explained few days ago how to change a license from customer’s one to partner’s one when working with Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 on-premise . This more tricky process occours mainly because now you don’t have the Development Environment…

This is the meeting’s week for all the european Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partners (and not only them I think) and Vienna for the second time hosts a great 3 days of conference. This is the event to attend to know more about the Microsoft…

I was sure this was an obvious topic until today, but after receiving so many desperate questions from partners that are unable to change the license for an on-premise Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 database for development purposes, I’ve decided…

Checking which plan is assigned to a specific user (Essential, Premium, Team Member) is become a quite different thing with the Wave 2 release (version 15). Users plans are now managed in the System Application via the Azure AD Plan module . The Plan…

In one of my last development workshops for Microsoft Italy, when talking about Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs, I’ve done a small demo on how to retrieve data from APIs directly from a Powershell script and save those data in a CSV file. Due to a…

In a previous post I described how you can start building extensions for the upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 release on top of the Microsoft’s System Application . Today I want to show you how you can directly customize the Microsoft…

I have several Azure SQL databases (mainly Microsoft Dynamics NAV databases) on different Azure subscriptions and often I need to download a backup for some of them. Yesterday I’ve decided to automate this process by using Powershell and the Azure…

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 release date is just around the corner and there are many aspects of which you should be aware. I’ve written an article for my Simplanova ‘s friends that summarizes some important technical aspects to…

Do you remember this post ? I wrote it long time ago to explain what happens on SQL Server when you create a new table or you customize an existing table with an AL extension: the new table is created by appending the extension’s ID to the table’s name…

As you already knows from this official Microsoft post , with Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 release Microsoft has splitted the application into two main modules: Base Application (that contains all the ERP business logic) and System Application…

An interesting question pops out yesterday: with Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise , how can I programmatically check if a particular extension is installed or not? The standard Powershell command (in the Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Apps.Management…

If someone of you know C# or other object oriented languages in general, you know also that those languages have access modifiers . Access modifiers are keywords used to specify the declared accessibility of a member or a type. With Dynamics 365 Business…

If someone of you know C# or other object oriented languages in general, you know also that those languages have access modifiers . Access modifiers are keywords used to specify the declared accessibility of a member or a type. With Dynamics 365 Business…

We have received in this last month lots of requests about our upcoming “ Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central ” book, published by Packt: The book was planned to be released on the second half of August, but unfortunately due to a change in the…

One of the most interesting features announced for the Wave 2 release of Dynamics 365 Business Central is the possibility to create multiple production environments for each tenant (this will include the option for environments to be on different country…

I suggested many times in the past to every partners I met and to all the attendees to my AL courses for Microsoft Italy that the way to store sensitive data in Dynamics 365 Business Central must be the Isolated Storage usage and not custom tricks on…

I’ve written a lot in the past about how you can move your existing on-premise Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Dynamics 365 Business Central databases to the cloud, how you can use SQL Server on an Azure VM or how you can start using Azure SQL (links  here…