Running Dynamics 365 Business Central in the cloud, means that we always have a system which is running the latest version. Microsoft will take care of the upgrades of both the standard code and any installed extensions. Before upgrading and upon any new build Business Central is being tested by running 10,000's of automated tests in the test toolkit. This test is done every time they build their code, and it checks that the functionality in BC works as it is designed to work. Besides the test…

Having worked for a while now with Visual Studio Code and AL, I have made a number of page extensions, where I really wanted to say something bad, to who every decided it was ok to name something Control1, Control2 etc! How exactly do you know which control to use when they are named like this: Luckily, they are not all as bad as the sales invoice page but would say that especially this page would have been great if they had been named a bit more carefully back in the days . At least to me…

Been out on a customer project last couple of weeks, so didn't have time to work on my own project. But this weekend is one of our many Spring holidays - Whitsun, which comes with Monday off. And the wife is working. So a little time to work on my AL project. Just needed to start by updating my development environment to the latest cumulative update for NAV 2018 - CU05. Using Docker that didn't take much time, neither did installing the new AL extension 0.12.20065 to Visual Studio Code. But…

In my last post I wrote about how global NAV implementations used to be done . About the two different implementation models either a Template Core or One-Database Core. It took a bit longer to get this next “chapter” ready. Especially since a lot of the information has only been made available over the last week. Business Central was released this Monday, April 2nd. Localization's as Extension's The game changer was the release of NAV 2018 / Business Central. Extensions first came available…

Let me start announcing that the best of the NAV bloggers and blogs here on DUG, in the period April 1 st 2017 to March 31 st 2018 is Luc van Vugt and his blog Van Vugt's dynamiXs . And which day other than the release of Dynamics 365 Business Central , would be better to announce which of the NAV blogs here on Dynamics User Group, who are the best or most popular? In the words of Microsoft, then the Business Central release is the third generation of Navision. So while we have never before made…

If was just taking a closer look at the different standard Extensions, coming with Dynamics 365 Business Central. They have become much more interesting, now that our Danish localization's are shipped as Extensions. When taking a look from inside the client, then we get this view: It's listing the Danish localization and other extensions. I then used PowerShell and use Get-NavContainerAppInfo to see the actual list of Extensions in my container. PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-NavContainerAppInfo…

“The Way To Grow” used to be Navision’s slogan back in the 1990’ies. And that was how the system was sold, the ERP solution for successful and growing SMB’s (small to mid-sized businesses). Navision started to ship localized versions in the early 1990’ies, so it was a natural choice when these growing companies, expanded into to other countries. Instead of finding another suitable local ERP product, then Navision allowed them to use the same ERP system everywhere, as they used in their own headquarter…

Yesterday 3/12/2018, MSDynamicsWorld leaked that the name of what we used to know as Dynamics 365 'Tenerife', would be Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central . Initially this was not to have been released until Thursday 3/15 at Directions ASIA in Bangkok, but the news spread fast. So fast that Microsoft's Alysa Taylor, the general manager for Business Apps and Strategy, officially announced the new name today . What is Dynamics 365 Business Central? It is everything what Dynamics 365 for…

You may have noticed that the future name of Dynamics NAV/Dynamics 365 “Tenerife” is going to be Dynamics 365 Business Central . But what does it really matter? In “Navision’s” 34-year history, then Navision was only (a part of) the name for 12 years. From 1994 to 2006. In some countries (like Denmark, Germany and the US) only from 1998 to 2006. Just as long as it has been called Dynamics NAV. The name has changed many times since 1984. For those of you, who haven't been around since the start…

One of the goals of Microsoft is to turn all their many localized versions into Extensions. They are taking their own medicine so to say. Just as many customers find that upgrades are a pain when they have a lot of customization's, so does Microsoft. Every time there is a new release, they also have to go through the same pains when upgrading their 17 localization's from W1. Something they do for all their cumulative updates for NAV 2015, 2016, 2017 and now NAV 2018, every month. Even with a lot…