Stefano Demy

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that signal that, during the upgrade to 15.4 release of a SaaS tenant, some custom extensions deployed on sandboxes are unpublished.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. …

I’ve written a lot in the past about handling breaking schema changes on extensions and the best practice to use the ObsoleteState object property to signal to your developers or third-party ISV users of your extensions that you’re planning to remove…

In the next months Microsoft Western Europe has planned a series of one-day training events for helping Dynamics 365 Business Central partners on improving their development process by applying DevOps techniques. Official announcement is here: …

Yesterday Kennie Pontoppidan (from the Dynamics 365 Business Central Team) asked us an interesting question: do you use data compression on your Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise database? If yes, what type of compression? From the answers…

As you already know, Microsoft last week published the 2020 release wave 1   plans  for  Dynamics 365  and  Microsoft Power Platform document. This is the document that announces the roadmap for the next major releases of these products. Regarding…

I’m not a big fan of using BLOB fields on the Dynamics 365 Business Central database, but there are many scenarios where you need to handle BLOBs inside the database directly. As an example, imagine to have an application that handles different…

I think that many of you on your Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central projects have tasks executed by using console applications (.exe) scheduled by using Windows Task Scheduler or other systems. This works good for on-premise environments …

Microsoft Ignite The Tour  brings the very best of  Microsoft Ignite  to a city near you. The tour provides technical training led by Microsoft experts and your community. You’ll learn new ways to build solutions, migrate and manage infrastructure, and…

DynamicsPower! 365 Saturday Milan is returning in 2020 at Microsoft House with the biggest Dynamics 365 italian community event covering Hands on Workshops and Deepdives into Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Unified Operations, Dynamics 365 Business…

More than an year ago I wrote this article for Simplanova website mentioning some “architectural choices” when moving a C/AL solution to the extension model. One of the ideas mentioned here was to create an “hidden layer” that can contain common…

More than an year ago I’ve written this post explaining how to handle breaking schema changes on a production Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant . I think that every Dynamics 365 Business Central developer now knows that in a production environment…

Just in time for Christmas, I’m very happy and proud to announce that the book “ Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central ” is finally out and available on Packt website and on Amazon in all the two formats (eBook and printed copy). This was…

I’ve received (and I’m receiving too) a lot of emails and messages on social networks from many of you asking for news about the future activites that Microsoft Italy has planned for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partners during 2020, so I…