A quick post to announce that Microsoft will hold a live webinar on the Dynamics 365 YouTube channel to help you and your customers get the answers to questions you may have. The link is: https://aka.ms/D365ReleaseCadenceWebinar Dynamics 365 Release and Update Cadence Time:  August 9th, 9a Pac (GMT-7) In this session, we will discuss the latest about the latest optimizations announced to Dynamics 365 update policies: https://aka.ms/dynamics365updatesblog You will learn how your organization can benefit from the latest features and productivity fixes. We will discuss implications and…

The NDA regarding some topics is officially finished today and Microsoft has published an official document that answers many questions related to the Fall release of Dynamics 365 Business Central. You can start reading from here . If you want to directly go to the cool part, this is the link . Obviously, this is a work in progress. You can help improving Dynamics 365 Business Central by discussing ideas, providing suggestions, and giving feedbacks by using the Business Central forum at  https://aka.ms/businesscentralfeedback .

Answers to a post-course question regarding object prefixes in extensions for AppSource: Object prefix must be registered with Microsoft (at least 3 digits) and must be unique (it’s globally reserved for you) It can be a prefix or a suffix (you can call an object XXXMyTable or MyTableXXX ) You have to use it for every objects in your extension This is case insensitive (you can call an object XXXMyTable or xxxMyTable ) You can use the prefix in any format you want ( XXX_MyTable , XXX-MyTable , XXX.MyTable , XXX MyTable etc. are all valid names) You can register more than one prefix…

A week ago I wrote a post for answering a question regarding how to print external documents from Microsoft Dynamics NAV . This code is C/AL based and it uses DotNet classes that interacts with the local operating system. How can this code be translated as Extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central? For the SaaS version of Dynamics 365 Business Central, this is actually not possible. We can’t use DotNet objects in the cloud. But what about the future on-premise version? This is currently in preview (so you don’t find this feature in your standard sandbox environment) but starting from build…

During our Extension Development workshops for Dynamics 365 Business Central , some developers are start asking for scenarios where in my extension I need to detect if it’s running on a Sandbox environment or in a production one. From an extension, you can detect if it’s running on a Sandbox environment by using the Tenant Management codeunit (417). This codeunit provides a set of useful functions for retrieving informations about the Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant and platform. Here is a quick sample: In order to retrieve if your extension is running on a sandbox or on a production…

These are old topics and someone has written on a solution for this in the past, but after some forum questions received today I think that a quick recap could be interesting. Question 1: how to print external documents directly from NAV There are scenarios where you need to print directly from NAV also external documents (like PDF, Word files or other things). For this task, in my personal library I use a solution based on DotNet variables and the  System.Diagnostics.Process class (that provides access to local and remote processes and enables you to start and stop local system processes…