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Another entry in my long list of videos for AL beginners. This time it’s all about numbers series. Read the full text.

In this video I show the Page Background Tasks works in Business Central. This is a way to send time-consuming tasks to a background thread to avoid holding up the main thread and slowing down the user interface. Read the full text.

Running the Dynamics365 Business Central Cloud Migration can sometimes give a very strange error, like this one: Something has exceeded an internal limit of 4194304 bytes (that’s a 32-bit limitation indicator. After talking with Microsoft, I now know, that this error can come in two different scenarios: Too many companies Too many tables In my […] Read the full text.

In this video, I explain how and when to use the different page types, and explain the difference between them. More information can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-page-types-and-layouts Read the full text.

In this video, I discuss (with myself?) about Open Source and Business Central AL – Trying to explain some of the confusing that exist around AL. Read the full text.

In this video, I show how to get started on using Git with AL and Business Central. This is Git for (git)beginners. If you want to dive deep into branching, check this webinar out: Webinar: Git branching model and strategies – Vjeko.com Read the full text.

In this video, I’m showing the, (for AL vs C/AL) new capability of procedure overloading. Inspired by a recent Twitter thread. Read the full text.

In version 17, the old and much beloved SMTP Mail codeunit is being marked obsolete. In this video, I’ll show how to replace the obsoleted code with fresh new functionality. Read the full text.

Over the last year or so, we have seen “random” cases, where one delegate admin suddenly was unable to log into one specific Business Central tenant on the cloud. The usual remedy is that we create extra users in our AAD that are only used for delegate admin stuff. Then last night, in a related […] Read the full text.

In this video, I show how to start aggregating your design extensions into a single extension that’s managed with Visual Studio Code. This is a great way for customers consultants to get started with development and a great method for customers to organize the chaos. Read the full text.