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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…

In the ForNAV standard report pack we have a few reports that are traditionally slow when running. One of my design goals when developing these reports was to see if I can increase performance. The names of the challenged reports will sound familiar…

On my task list for one of my customers was a nicely isolated module that I could make into an extension. I’m a huge fan of making many small extensions rather than trying to put all of one customers modifications in one project. In this case it…

Last week the inevitable happened. I created a page in C/Side with an ID that I had already been used by an extension. Microsoft is aware of this issue but does not want to prevent it from happening. The problem is that at first everything seems…

Looking for feedback as always. As you might know (or not) we ship a set of standard reports with ForNAV which are optimized for the product. With these reports you’ll also get a set of tables, pages, codeunits and in the next version even a query…

Let’s recap on the blog posts from the last three days. Why C/Side deserves one more round. At least… Visual Studio Code is an awesome editor but due to the nature/legacy of Business Central and many ISV solutions it can be less productive when moving…

Writing a blog post help me clear my mind and get feedback to my idea’s. Some of my readers are very loyal in their interactive feedback while others just sporadically leave a reply or contact me via the contact page. For this post I also hope to get…

Walk with me through the learning curve of a developer who is new to Business Central. We’ll assume he/she is familiar with modern web development. Wow! I’ll give Microsoft the WOW effect. When you spin up Business Central you get more than you bargained…

I use Extensions and Visual Studio Code in my daily life. Or at least for a while, nowadays it’s more something in my weekly life. I try to avoid them when I can. Not because they are bad or evil but because they slow down my productivity, and because…

Upgrading software is hard. Not because merging software is hard. It’s hard because people are creatures of habits. Let me give you an example. We recently upgraded from NAV 2016 to NAV2018. This means big changes to the Customer Card. I’m fine with…