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. Out of the box, ForNAV is translated to all the...

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 large monolitical solutions one-to-one. Solution...

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 some feedback. Before we get started, I am not...

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 for. Where other frameworks show you a hello...

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 I have legacy software. Almost everyone I talk...

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 that. While in the process I moved my customizations...

Opinion, by Mark Brummel When Microsoft closes a door, they open a window. Sure I miss working with the classic client where I could make forms look however the customer wanted them to look. All the colors available withing the RGB pallette, a simple report designer and the database is one file. If NAV...

Sometimes you need an external signal to rethink your strategy. This morning I read this tweet on my timeline. @markbrummel Thx for sharing your thoughts around business central. In your opinion… if your are looking at competing products. What might be a better option than D365BC? Say 50 concurrent...