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In my last post, The true story behind my build service for NAV/BC I wrote about what it took to build a small, but scalable cloud service. In this post, I’ve got something to announce, so let’s get started! From now on I’m offering a free trial period + configuration for companies that are wanting to start with continuous integration for C/AL and/or AL. Meaning that you’ll be able to use the service for free, without any limitations for a certain amount of time. I’ll assist with configuring the...

Usually, I write posts about a certain technical subject, but not today. Today I’ll tell you the true story behind my build service for NAV/BC and I hope I’ve challenged you by the time you reach the end of this post. Today is a good day, today the 1000th build ran on my CI service for Dynamics 365 BC/NAV and that feels like a huge achievement if I look back at how this all started. I initially came up with this idea of a generic build service almost two years ago, in those two years the code has...

Last week, I was working on the final bits of a release pipeline for Business Central in Azure DevOps and all that was left was to import a couple of RapidStart packages in an automated (PowerShell) fashion. The only (future-proof) automated way of doing this is by using the automation APIs as described here . Seems do-able, right…? For the ones who’re not into reading the documentation (like me :D), we’ll need to do 4 API calls to get the job done: – Create a record in the Configuration...

It has been 7 months since I released my VS Code extension called NAVBaaS Git, a free extension that seamlessly integrates your C/SIDE development with Git and Docker. (you can read all about it here ) With 544 unique installations and almost 1400 downloads, it’s safe to conclude that quite a number of people are or have been using the extension, big thanks for that! In those 7 months, some small features were added and a few bugs were fixed, but nothing big and now it feels like it’s the right...

In my previous blog post , we looked at how to authenticate and call the Business Central Admin Center Telemetry API, we ended up with a response message that we could not deserialize into a C# class. Luckily some guys from Microsoft stumbled upon my blog post and asked for feedback, which resulted in a backlog item on their side to provide key-value pairs in the response. Thanks guys and keep reading my blog posts Today we’ll look at how to transform the response into a class that we can then use...

With Business Central you get something called Business Central Admin Center , the place where tenant admins and delegated admins (the partner associated with the tenant) perform admin tasks like manage environments, set upgrade windows and view telemetry. Everything you can do through the admin center can also be done through the APIs, today we’ll have a look at how to consume the telemetry API from a simple C# console application and create the foundation for the next blog post where we will go...

For the people that missed out on the session called ‘Performance: Business Central reloaded for the Cloud’ at the #navtechdays this year, it’s extremely important to catch-up with the topics discussed as this was the most informative session at the event. One key takeaway of the session is about that magic thing that solves all our problems when going from C/AL to AL, that’s right, we’re talking about events! Oh, and by the way, the recording of that session can be found here . I knew...

What do you do when you need to kill some time in a hotel before the NAV TechDays break loose? That’s right, write a blog post! This one has been on my list for quite some time now but there were always more interesting things to blog about, but now it’s time to finally take care of the Upgrade Tags. Somewhere in the development of Business Central the table Upgrade Tag and codeunit Upgrade Tag Mgt. appeared, but what are they meant for? Let’s find out With NAV2015 we got upgrade codeunits...

There are three types of apps you can choose to either extend or build on top of Business Central, add-on apps, connect apps and embed apps, the latter is probably somewhat unknown to you but that’s about to change! The three types of apps: Connect apps   are built on top of the Business Central APIs, connect apps are able to leverage from the standard APIs as well as from custom APIs added by either an add-on app or an embed app. Add-on apps extend and/or add functionality to Business Central...

We’re in an era where we are expected to deliver software more often and to deliver it faster, in other words, we’re expected to be agile. In order to be agile, we need continuous integration, continuous integration is a practice where members of a team integrate their work several times a day into a shared mainline. Each integration should be verified by a build (including tests) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. This is just a brief explanation of continuous integration as...