Stefano Demy

When you’re start implementing Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise (because you’re not ready for the SaaS now), one of the good decision you can take today is to move your database to the cloud. I’ve written in the past different posts on when and…

Today’s post wants to give an overview of a successfully deployed scenario of a geo-distributed integration between Dynamics 365 Business Central and some local B2B applications and it wants to leave a message to all: enlarge your vision to other Azure…

Is there a limit on the number of requests that an external application can perform with the Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs? I think that this is actually an undocumented response (please correct me if I’m wrong) but the answer is absolutely yes…

I’ve promised this post to some attendees of my last Dynamics 365 Business Central development workshop in Microsoft Italy (c/o Microsoft House) last week. Question was: How can I call Dynamics 365 Business Central logic from an external application…

I think that everyone of you already knows that calling custom .NET DLLs in your extension’s code is not supported in a SaaS environment, but you can still use .NET assemblies in your extensions if you explicitly target the on-premise world. You can…

About one month ago during the Dynamics 365 Business Central April ’19 release launch event in Microsoft Italy, I’ve presented a technical session to partners about how to start moving their existing solutions to AL and extensions. We saw practical tips…

Do you remember this idea? I’ve suggested it last year because in my opinion one of the noisy things related to Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox environments was the lack of a direct upload of an .app file (manual deployment of an extension). …

When you develop solutions for Dynamics 365 Business Central , you have essentially two roads for your extensions: Release it as a per-tenant extension (PTE) Release it on AppSource I’ve talked a lot in the past months about per-tenant extensions…

I’ve talked a lot in the past about pros and cons of per-tenant extensions  (PTE) in Dynamics 365 Business Central. Despite Microsoft’s guidance (use AppSource) this is actually the most common way for partners to deploy their extensions on a SaaS environment…

As you already knows, with the new web experience in Dynamics 365 Business Central the menusuite object is disappeared and the Search functionality is now essential to find the right object or function you need for performing a particular business task…

The new April 2019 release for Dynamics 365 Business Central introduced lots of new features and one of the most interesting is for sure the possibility to have more than one online sandbox. With this new release (platform 14 ) you will be able to…

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This was in the air (Microsoft has clearly announced more than an year ago that in a year or so they will be ready to move their ERP codebase from C/AL to AL), something was under NDA and cannot be blogged but finally at Directions ASIA for the first…

As you already knows, Microsoft has rolled up in these days the Cumulative Update 4 for Dynamics 365 Business Central . Unfortunately, there’s an (actually) undocumented breaking change that has affected lots of customers: if you have previously published…

There are many areas in Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS that are source of headaches for users and partners and I see often that one of that areas is the online sandbox environment . With this quick post, I want to try clearing some “foggy aspects…

Together with Microsoft Italy , we’re pleased to announce an full day of Azure DevOps overview for Dynamics 365 Business Central developers and consultants . Event details and agenda can be found here . In the first part of the day we’ll see a…

2 days ago Microsoft has announced the availability of Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs in Microsoft Graph . Microsoft Graph  is an interesting platform that permits you to have a unique gateway for REST APIs that spans across multiple Microsoft services…

As publicly announced yesterday , the February 2019 Developer Preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central launches the first public version of the application where all the base code is converted from C/AL to AL. If you open the old C/SIDE Development…

About one week ago I’ve written a post on how to integrate Dynamics 365 Business Central with Microsoft Teams and after that post I’ve received a lot of questions (so surprised that the topic was so hot). My goal was to write a message to a Teams channel…

Microsoft Teams is the new Microsoft’s collaborative platform for collaborative working and I’m quite sure that quite soon everyone of you will use this platform as a Skype replacement (at least for business). One of the request I’m receiving often…

If I have an on-premise installation of Dynamics 365 Business Central, can I move my database from a local SQL Server to Azure SQL by automating this task (no manual processing)? I’ve received this question in a forum some days ago and I remember that…

This seems to be one of the hottest “problems” when using Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: actually you cannot directly print a document on a printer, but you need to open the PDF file and then print from the browser. This could be ok for documents…

I saw different tickets and questions related to the title’s topic in the last weeks and I think there’s the need for a clarification. I wrote a post some months ago by explaining the Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant upgrade process that Microsoft…

Microsoft has revealed to the general public the new Dynamics 365 Business Central features planned to be released in the April 2019 wave (from April through September 2019). Here a quick summary of what to attend (so be prepared ): Web experience…

I think that today everyone of you knows that with Dynamics 365 Business Central we have the following rules for Object IDs: 50.000-99.999: per tenant/customer customizations (no AppSource). 1.000.000-60.000.000: RSP range for partners that have…