You might have read my previous posts How Do I: Develop an Extension in Business Central On Premises? and How Do I: Create a Dynamics 365 Business Central Demo/Sandbox Environment? Now you might be wondering, How Do I: Develop an Extension in Business Central Saas, meaning the online Business Central environment? Well, first of all, logon to Business Central via: http://home.dynamics.com using your Office 365 credentials: To be able to develop an extension for Business Central, you need a sandbox. G oto search (Alt-Q) and enter Sandbox: Use the Sandbox Environment (Preview) link: …

You might have read my previous posts How Do I: Develop an Extension in Business Central On Premises? and How Do I: Create a Dynamics 365 Business Central Demo/Sandbox Environment? Now you might be wondering, How Do I: Develop an Extension in Business Central Saas, meaning the online Business Central environment? Well, first of all, logon to Business Central via: http://home.dynamics.com using your Office 365 credentials: To be able to develop an extension for Business Central, you need a sandbox. G oto search (Alt-Q) and enter Sandbox: Use the Sandbox Environment (Preview) link: …

Microsoft is ready with the November update of the Developer Preview With this release, we bring you several new features that help building your solutions as extensions. Again this month we have fixed a large number of GitHub issues, see what’s been closed here: closed bugs in November . This Developer Preview is available only through the Ready to Go program. Read more at http://aka.ms/readytogo . To get all fixes and features described in this blog post, please make sure that you are running an image with build number 26070 or newer. https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/businesscentraldevitpro…

Microsoft is ready with the November update of the Developer Preview With this release, we bring you several new features that help building your solutions as extensions. Again this month we have fixed a large number of GitHub issues, see what’s been closed here: closed bugs in November . This Developer Preview is available only through the Ready to Go program. Read more at http://aka.ms/readytogo . To get all fixes and features described in this blog post, please make sure that you are running an image with build number 26070 or newer. https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/businesscentraldevitpro…

There are many ways to spin up a demo environment for Dynamics 365 Business Central. For example, you can use a Docker image, or register for an online tenant, or create one on Azure: What Docker Image is right for you? Multiple ways to run a NAV on Docker image. http://aka.ms/getnav http://aka.ms/navdeveloperpreview http://aka.ms/getnavworkshopvms Sign up for a Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox. But, when I have to deliver a demo, I don’t always have the time to do that, and I then opt for one of the following: Microsoft Demos Create an Office 365 trial …

There are many ways to spin up a demo environment for Dynamics 365 Business Central. For example, you can use a Docker image, or register for an online tenant, or create one on Azure: What Docker Image is right for you? Multiple ways to run a NAV on Docker image. http://aka.ms/getnav http://aka.ms/navdeveloperpreview http://aka.ms/getnavworkshopvms Sign up for a Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox. But, when I have to deliver a demo, I don’t always have the time to do that, and I then opt for one of the following: Microsoft Demos Create an Office 365 trial …

Now that we have installed and configured Business Central On Premises, let’s see how you can configure and use Visual Studio Code to create an extension. First, let’s verify the service tier development settings : Make sure Enable Developer Service Endpoint has been enabled, and make a note of the Port number (default 7049). Then download and install Visual Studio Code : https://code.visualstudio.com/ Once Visual Studio Code has been installed (next, next, next,…), launch it and open the Extensions pane : At the top, search for AL, then the AL Language Extension should popup in…

Now that we have installed and configured Business Central On Premises, let’s see how you can configure and use Visual Studio Code to create an extension. First, let’s verify the service tier development settings : Make sure Enable Developer Service Endpoint has been enabled, and make a note of the Port number (default 7049). Then download and install Visual Studio Code : https://code.visualstudio.com/ Once Visual Studio Code has been installed (next, next, next,…), launch it and open the Extensions pane : At the top, search for AL, then the AL Language Extension should popup in…

After you have installed Business Central On Premises, as explained in the previous blog post, you will notice that Personalization is not enabled: I don’t know why, if this is by design or not, but you can enable it as follows. First, find your navsettings.json file: Here you can find more info on modifying the navsettings.json file: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/configuring-microsoft-dynamics-nav-web-client-by-modifying-the-web.config-file#WebClientSettingsFile To enable Personalization , you need to add the following setting in the file: ,”PersonalizationEnabled…

After you have installed Business Central On Premises, as explained in the previous blog post, you will notice that Personalization is not enabled: I don’t know why, if this is by design or not, but you can enable it as follows. First, find your navsettings.json file: Here you can find more info on modifying the navsettings.json file: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/configuring-microsoft-dynamics-nav-web-client-by-modifying-the-web.config-file#WebClientSettingsFile To enable Personalization , you need to add the following setting in the file: ,”PersonalizationEnabled…