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Now that the NDA on Business Central Wave II has been lifted and the DVD preview is released partners got time to look at the code Microsoft has refactored. The reactions vary from being marketing correct to more realistic . I have a strong…

This is something that’s long overdue, I wanted to write this before my summer vacation. My reason for holding back is that I want to share all the code for this project and this needs cleaning up. This is still not done and if you want the code…

The Business Central Community loves Git, but GitHub does not seem to even know we exist. It recognises our projects as perl projects and there is no suggestion for a .gitignore file. Why .gitignore? It’s generally considered best practice…

One of the most anoying things about writing AL code in Visual Studio Code is getting warnings that you cannot fix. Simply impossible. My “favorite” warning is this one For almost a decade it’s been possible to sort on flowfields from…

When developing extensions for Business Central you have a wide array of publishing options to choose from. My most used options when working on the ForNAV Customizable Report Pack are our Sandbox and Docker. Testing is best on the Sanxbox…

Feedback is critical for Microsoft to improve Business Central and all of their other products. For this reason a preview is published of the upcomming release this fall. You can install this using Docker and I’ve been told a DVD will be made available…

UPDATE!! Microsoft is listening!! Big news, it seems that Microsoft is fixing the issues we’ve found in our App for AppSource. Both the functions on the TempBlob and the Language table will be added back! But also, let’s continue where we left…

Before we dive into the list of (breaking) changes that I’ve discovered so far, I will first explain how to check your extension against the preview of the fall release. This is mostly interesting for those who are on AppSource or partners who have…

Be careful what you ask for, you might actually get it. This phrase illustrates what we will see when Microsoft releases Business Central Wave II this October where C/Side is removed in favor of Visual Studio Code, The Windows Client discontinued…

As far as I remember, social media around Business Central/NAV(ision) has never been as quiet as in the last months. There is nothing from the MVP’s anymore and it seems the majority of partners are in the dark about that’s going on at Microsoft…

Today we’ve successfully completed a workshop at Vos Transport with Global Mediator where we did a demo/prototype of a new user interface defined on metadata embedded in Microsoft Dynamics NAV using client add-ins. We’ve been working on…

There should be a simple rule that applies to all members of our community. If you struggle with something and find out the answer, then share it. If everyone starts doing that I’m sure it will improve our community and bring back some joy in the world…

If you work with Extensions in Dynamics NAV there is a fair chance that you’ve seen this message. Today I got it again, waisted half an hour of my live and decided to blog about it. What happened is that I have a Page Extension with the same…

Today I got this error message while publishing an extension to our Development system. Since our Development system just moved to Azure last week our Azure Specialist and I spent some time troubleshooting this. As always with these things the root…

It’s a wrap. After 9 months of work the latest edition of the programming book is finished. This is the sixth edition but the first to be AL only. A very specific choice that I made when I started on the project. And a bit of a gamble since I was…

At the airport of Copenhagen (CPH) eating my favorite burger. (Aamanns Burger). Then writing a blog. This is an awkward blog, a blog that was asked for by my colleague Jan when I spent a few days at our office. He asked if I could blog something…

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the best and most customizable ERP that ever existed. There, you have it. For some people it’s hard to understand that in one blog I am trying to protect our ecosystem from loosing C/Side and in the…

The move by Microsoft from C/Side to Visual Studio Code is a bit like Brexit. At first everybody thinks it is a great idea, until they realise the consequences. And then there is no way back. Why? Please let me explain… With C/Side we have…

When working with Extensions I would not recommend working with Xliff files unless you design for AppSource. Otherwise CaptionML will work fine for Per-Tenant projects. Unfortunately for me, I am working right now on submitting an AppSource project…

Let’s start diving into working with Extensions in Real Life. I have a lot to blog about and at first I thought I would blog about a very small extension but I’m sure you’ve all seen that. Let’s start big! At NAVTechDays I showed you the extension…

A little over a week ago I attended the Dutch Dynamics Community again, for the first time in a while. It was good to catch up and exchange news with peers in my network. “You’ve been quiet Mark!” is what I’ve been told a few times and that’s true…

Red and Bundle As you know we have been happily developing extensions for a while now. Every once in a while I blog about some stuff I found out recently but it is mostly smooth sailing at the moment. Today I was stumped though. For some reason…

Today I wanted to extend a Role Center with a Page Extension and I noticed Microsoft has updated terminology. HomeItems = Embedding To add a list to the Home Items you must use Embedding. Other changes: Related Information = Navigation New…

In software we’ve invented all kinds of terminology to make it sound as if removing a feature is great. Terms like sunsetting and retirement give you a great feeling. Who does not love to see the sun go down with a beer and a loved one. In reality…

Today I had a small talk with my brother about generating custom symbols from C/Side and how to manage that. Here is how I did it. At the company I work for we have a DTAP environment and we (normally) only code in Development. Fobs and Extensions…