Stefano Demy

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…

One of the common (and basic) way to create integrations between systems in Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the past was to directly work at the SQL Server level and create tables linked to SQL objects by using the table’s LinkedObject property. With Microsoft…

When integrating external applications with Dynamics 365 Business Central, one of the classical way is to use APIs (standard or custom APIs) and then call the relative endpoints from the external application. As said in the past , exposing entities…

During the last technical workshops done for Microsoft in Finland and Norway, I’ve discovered that many partners are doing (together with the customer) a lot of load testing and performance testing for their solutions and for the standard application…

While waiting to officially announce to the Dynamics 365 Business Central community our latest and biggest work ever, I’m happy today to announce another work where I was involved in the last 7 months: Migrating applications to the Cloud book is out…

I had a discussion in the last days on socials with some of my followers (yes, I have them :D) about what’s the best way to expose Dynamics 365 Business Central data to external systems for integrations and for data analysis. Exposing data is an hot…

Handling telemetry is on of the most important activities that should always be done on a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant. The classical way to inspect the telemetry of a tenant is going to the Admin portal of your tenant, access the Telemetry…

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…