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Tip of the day: Have you checked out the new #BCALhelp hashtag? Remember that you can use it to ask questions directly to the #MSDyn365BC community. There’s already a lot of informative discussions going on:

When you use the Power BI Desktop connector for Business Central: you will see all your environments (production, sandboxes,…): And if you try this in the latest version, with the new look & feel, you will see something like this: Nice to see an idea implemented ! https://t.co/W1AO5qrZMI #msdyn365bc #PowerBI pic.twitter.com/YSCNKTFBUu — Steven Renders (@srenders) November 15, 2019 How cool is that! Thanks Microsoft for implementing this idea: https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=29d8a705-2d8c-e911-80e7-0003ff68d305

Imagine you accidentally delete your launch.json file in your project, or you clone a git repo that does not have a launch.json file, then what do you do? Do you manually create a new launch.json file? Do you copy a launch.json file from another project? Do you go to #bcalhelp and ask for help? These are all good solutions, but did you know that VSCode can create it for you, automatically? Let me show you how: How cool is that? And a tip from Waldo : (simply download symbols, without a launch.json)

Since the release of the new development environment, some thing have changed… And one of these things is how you, as a developer, run a query. Imagine you have created this amazing query object: Well, in the past you could have simply used Ctrl+R or the Run button in the object designer, to get a preview of the first 10.000 rows, but now you can’t run a query object anymore, from VSCode, or can you? Ofcourse you can. Simply deploy your extension to your sandbox and then append the following in the URL: https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/[REPLACE-WITH-YOUR-TENTNANT-ID]/Sandbox?query…

I recently was made aware that you can simply unzip the Microsoft Base Application, after you download symbols: How cool is that? (I knew that this was possible with your own apps, I simply did not know it was possible with the Microsoft Apps too.)

I have been waiting a long time for this to become available, but now you are able to create an Office 365 trial environment, for free, which can be used for a whole year . Demos.Microsoft.com has been available for some time now, for Microsoft Partners , and I have used it many times to create demo environments for Office 365 and Business Central, but until now I was only able to create environments that were valid for 90 days. Granted, that’s a lot better then a ‘normal’ Office 365 trial which is valid for 30 days. The URL has recently changed to https://cdx.transform.microsoft.com but https…

We at Plataan are proud to present: Business Central Booster , a case based learning program to support the in-stream of new Business Central professionals: In other words: Learn By Doing @ https://businesscentralbooster.com   Our full encompassing learning paths will boost you in the Business Central professional life and consultancy practice. Real-world implementation scenario leads your learning journey. Our case-based approach ensures that your skills development is aligned with the implementation practice. When you sign up for our Business Central Professional programs, you’ll have…

Please have a look here, to find recently published learning paths on Microsoft Learn, about Business Central: https:// aka.ms/bclearn When you apply the above link, these are the results: Deploy and configure Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/deploy-configure-dynamics-365-business-central Return items in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/return-items-dynamics-365-business-central Assemble items in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central https://docs.microsoft…

You’ll notice one of our exciting updates right away when creating new reports with the September update of Power BI Desktop, a new, modern default theme! Not only do we have a new default theme, but we’ve more than doubled the number of built-in theme options for your report. If you’re a theme author, potentially more exciting are the updates to our theme JSON format which make it much quicker and easier for you to create your own custom themes that significantly change the look and feel of your report. Thanks to an intern project, we’re also releasing a frequently requested modeling feature…

Our August release has another hotly anticipated feature from the Microsoft Business Application Summit, grouping. Amanda Cofsky Program Manager Grouping in reports, similar to PowerPoint’s grouping, lets you easily organize groups of visuals to move and resize them as a set. This month’s release also has some updates to our newest features, such as an icon set picker for our newly added icons conditional formatting and measure support for key influencers. As a reminder, you’re now downloading a single .exe file that has all the languages wrapped into it. The old .msi installation…