Stefano Demy

Some days ago there was a discussion on Twitter started by Waldo about how to document custom Dynamics 365 Business Central APIsd to third-party clients that expects standard documentations like OpenAPI . OpenAPI Specification (formerly Swagger…

I’ve written in the past some posts with tips on how to write code for performances and how to be careful on using too much table extensions on heavy used tables if you don’t want to affect the performances of your tenant. There are also some sessions…

I’m continuously emphasizing that for monitoring cloud applications (like Dynamics 365 Business Central) and cloud services, using Azure Application Insights is a must. For analyzing telemetry data, I ‘ve talked in the past about how to use Log…

Yesterday I had a chat with a Partner that was stuck with a problem on some SaaS tenants. Problem can be resumed as follows: Step 1 : They have published on AppSource a MAIN app together with a library app LIBRARY1. Step 2 : They have installed…

Have you ever had the need or the requirement to create a graphical diagram of the building blocks of your extension? Personally, a lot of time. I think that explaining an overall solution architecture with a diagram is something that sometimes…

This is a very quick post for signaling a potential problem when you distribute your apps (per-tenant extensions) to your customers without carefully checking your app.json file. When you create an extension with the AL:Go! command, the skelethon…

As a follow-up to this post , I’ve received some questions related to why we talked about .NET Standar d if the future Microsoft’s goal is to use .NET Core on server-side for Business Central (more performant, lightweight, modular, cloud-ready) and if…

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Microsoft is continuously moving the server to .NET Standard and if you’re using on-premises .NET add-ins that targets .NET Framework, you should start converting them in order to use .NET Standard. .NET…

At the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Launch event, in his wonderful session about the Administration Center, Dmitry Chadayev (Microsoft PM) has described the improvements that Microsoft has made on the tenant’s database export feature. The…

When working with an ERP, using barcodes on different reports is a common practice and I think that every ERP should natively support using and printing barcodes (and QR codes too). Using barcodes with Dynamics 365 Business Central was quite easy…

I think that everyone of you knows that telemetry is an important aspect to take into consideration when working with a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant and I continuously encourage you to activate the integration with Application Insights for…

This is a very quick post just to notify all of you that are using Microsoft Power Platform with Dynamics 365 Business Central that the rollup of the new version of the standard connector is in place (I’ve talked about these new features on my session…

One of the noisy limitations on Dynamics 365 Business Central until version 17.X was the impossibility to extend standard reports. If you want to add a simple new field to a standard report, you are forced to create an entire new report (new dataset…

When Dynamics 365 Business Central version 16 was launched, I remember that a weird problem was signaled to Microsoft related to the ClearAll usage in code. For who don’t know this (but who don’t know this?) the ClearAll() procedure clears all internal…

Today at the first day of Ignite, Microsoft has finally announced that Universal Print is finally available for everyone. Universal Print is the premier cloud print service available at scale to businesses and educational organizations, deployed…

Some weeks ago I received two emails from contacts where they submitted me two interesting “bad problems” that blocked them on Dynamics 365 Business central SaaS. Problems were the following: Field declared in a per-tenant extension that now has…

As I think you already know, with Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 release wave 2 (version 15) Microsoft has marked a set of different things as obsolete ( ObsoleteState = Pending ) and with the upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 release Wave…

I think that every AL developer dreams that a day AL will be a full Object Oriented programming language like C# or others. Unfortunately, AL is born from C/AL and its main purpose is to write business logic inside a business application like an ERP…

If you’re using web services with Dynamics 365 Business Central version, from version 17.X you should always check the notifications that pops up in the Web Services page because some changes are in place (and Microsoft alerts you about that): …

Do you love reports? Personally, NO! But that is, as a Business Central developer I think that sometimes (forced or not) you need to work with reports in your solutions. As a quick recap, in Dynamics 365 Business Central a report layout controls…

Some days ago I discussed with some partners the architecture of a possible datawarehouse system for external BI analysis connected to Dynamics 365 Business Central data. They created an Azure SQL database where a “data sync” with Dynamics 365 Business…

Yesterday Microsoft has officially released one of the most requested feature for the Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS environment: point in time restore for environments . If you access your tenant’s Admin Center and select an environment, now…

I’m happy to announce that our book, “Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure: Re-architect and rebuild your applications using cloud-native technologies”, made it to BookAuthority’s Best Microsoft Azure Books of All Time . As featured on…

The standard (and for what I can see most used) way of using Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs is by sending an HTTP request to the API endpoint for the selected entity one request at a time: But if you need to perform massive operations …

I think that everyone of you already knows that when working with Dynamics 365 Business Central, table extensions are killers for performances. But how much? That’s a question that I’ve also done to myself a lot of time when working with partners…