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It’s the week of NAVTechDays, the biggest Business Central Community event of the year and I thought it would be good to spend a few moments on the state of our community. Business Central is taking off. According to Microsoft there are more than 4000 paying tenants and the average number of users per tentant is 10+ which is the sweetspot where Navision used to be strong. I can also see it in my daily work…

Tip of the day: Have you checked out the new #BCALhelp hashtag? Remember that you can use it to ask questions directly to the #MSDyn365BC community. There’s already a lot of informative discussions going on:

When you use the Power BI Desktop connector for Business Central: you will see all your environments (production, sandboxes,…): And if you try this in the latest version, with the new look & feel, you will see something like this: Nice to see an idea implemented ! https://t.co/W1AO5qrZMI #msdyn365bc #PowerBI pic.twitter.com/YSCNKTFBUu — Steven Renders (@srenders) November 15, 2019 How cool is that!…

I got quite a week ahead of me .. .  Not only will I host one session and some workshops .. I will actually host 2 sessions, 2 workshops and an ISV session this year.  What did I get myself into? No repeats! If you look at my session schedule, and you have visited Directions EMEA, well, you might wonder if I’m “just” redelivering content at NAVTechDays.  Well .. No!  Totally not, actually. Without giving…

Imagine you accidentally delete your launch.json file in your project, or you clone a git repo that does not have a launch.json file, then what do you do? Do you manually create a new launch.json file? Do you copy a launch.json file from another project? Do you go to #bcalhelp and ask for help? These are all good solutions, but did you know that VSCode can create it for you, automatically? Let me show you…

Since the release of the new development environment, some thing have changed… And one of these things is how you, as a developer, run a query. Imagine you have created this amazing query object: Well, in the past you could have simply used Ctrl+R or the Run button in the object designer, to get a preview of the first 10.000 rows, but now you can’t run a query object anymore, from VSCode, or can you? Ofcourse you…

We manage all our internal projects with Azure DevOps (projects not only related to Dynamics 365 Business Central). All our code is hosted on Azure DevOps but personally I’m using also GitHub for “external” projects or for sharing codes with the community (yes, Azure DevOps has public repository too but I prefer a separation on many cases). Unfortunately, build pipelines was a big lack for the GitHub platform… until…

On all the Dynamics 365 Business Central training activities I’ve done in the last year for Microsoft Italy, I’ve always received the following questions: why your Visual Studio Code has all these features? Are there a list of extensions that you recommend for working with Dynamics 365 Business Central? I’ve always shared a list of my recommended extensions in the training’s GitHub repository, but after an year of…

This blog post is really a combination between the last two blog posts, https://freddysblog.com/2019/11/04/using-sql-server-on-the-host/ and https://freddysblog.com/2019/11/12/mounting-a-database-backup-from-my-online-environment-inside-a-container/ . As stated in the last blog post, you can only use databases of less than 10Gb in size inside the container due to SQL Express. This blog post will explain how to get past…