Stefano Demy

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…

As you already knows, in October Microsoft will launch what is called “ Dynamics 365 Business Central Release Wave 2 ” (platform 15) and some days ago the first public preview was available. The main “revolution” of this new release is that all is…

When developing extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central, you could have scenarios where you want to execute a procedure or a business process only if the extension is running on a SaaS environment or in an on-premise environment (or maybe having…

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…

Do you remember the Fiat Panda 30 ? It was released in the year 1980 and it was one of the best ever car models released from Fiat. Fiat Panda 30 was one of the most appreciated models ever expecially because: it was a rock it goes everywhere…