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A week ago, Microsoft came with this message on twitter: Which basically pointed to an URL that was (for me) difficult to find on Microsoft Docs. I literally had to find the tweet again to find the list of expected features again .. so I figured: If I have a problem finding it, others might have problems as well. So, here it is: The (updated) list of features we can expect in the 2019 Release Wave 2 Key dates for the 2019 release wave 2 of Dynamics 365 When I just scheduled this blog, Eva Dupont tweeted this: I guess it’s very much “on topic”, so let’s include this URL as well: …

I totally forgot to blog about this – so let me quickly catch up with this one.. :-). Some time ago, after explaining my most used VSCode Extensions for AL Development for (about) the 829th time – I decided to make my life a bit easier. I already came across the concept of creating a VSCode Extension that act like packages that automatically install other extensions.  An “Extension Pack”, if you will ;-). So … here is the … AL Extension Pack You can find it here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=waldo.al-extension-pack And obviously, you can also download it from…

There is a recent change that I had to introduce in the CRS AL Language Extension – you know, that tiny little VSCode Extension that quite a lot of you seem to be using ;-). +89000 downloads/+21500 installs – that’s crazy! It’s one of my biggest projects I ever did for the community :-). Stop bragging, get to the point… Well – because of the fact that so many people are using the extension, I think I have to make you aware of an important change (fix) I did to the extension (already almost 3 weeks ago…). I have had a couple of requests to change the “rename” behaviour, which I had to implement…

Yes! I did it! I finally managed to created the blogpost that I have been wanting to put online for quite some time. I have been putting off a lot of other posts – just to be able to make this one happen asap! You might remember the post about Directions US 2019 – that I had some work to do . Well – let’s just say I’m trying to deliver on that promise – at least for 50% for now ;-). Namely, on – what I think – the most important part: DevOps Indeed! In my opinion, everybody of us (and I really mean everybody!) will – at one point in time – have to start organizing on how to develop in…

For long, we (as a partner community) have been asking for longer field lengths. And this time, Microsoft seems to have delivered: about 860 field lengths were changed. Mostly from Text50 to Text100, but also from Text30 to Text50 and so on. For your convenience, I created a csv on my “CALAnalysis”-repo on github that lists all of them. Caveats With this change, there are some caveats that I can think of – and there might be even more then I list here below. First of all: what if a Business Central database contains C/AL customizations or AL extensions or apps on AppSource? If a database…

I’m returning back from yet another great Directions US event in Las Vegas this time. At this point – I’m sitting in the lounge in New York – a great opportunity to do a short post about something I didn’t really expect, and now I’m quite obligated to do.. . I total, I did about 13 hours of sessions and workshops. That’s a lot. I never was busier – mainly because of Vjeko, who couldn’t join this year, and where I agreed to take over his sessions on Artificial Intelligence. That was a great experience – not only because it was very well prepared by Vjeko, but also for me the perfect opportunity…

My intentional plan was to share a small blog about the Fall release of Business Central . Well – it turned out I had more to say than I imagined beforehand ;-). I would like to focus on one point, where I’m not going to make myself really popular, as I notice quite a lot that people kind of disagree with me quite a lot :-). But that’s ok .. I don’t mind different opinions, as long I’m allowed to express mine ;-). Please take everything that follows as my opinion, and my opinion only. Fall 2019 release In Fall (probably October), we’ll have yet another major release of our beloved product…

You might remember my blog from yesterday … . I didn’t know when it would be released. Well, it wasn’t available yesterday, but today, I got the comment on my blog from Daniel Göhler that it was available – so I refreshed my container again, and indeed! I used this Docker image: mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:be (I assume you can use your own country-tag, or none for W1) But I also got these links from … : … Daniel Göhler: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/global/support/bconpremdownload ... Steven Renders: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=58106…

I’m not attending Directions ASIA this year – and it doesn’t really feel good. There is a major release around the corner, and I have to experience it through social media – I hate it! But that’s life – my wife is going live with a huge project, so I had some duties at home ;-). Luckily, the go live is going quite well, so it seems to have been worth it ;-). Having said that – the below blogpost is actually completely redundant. In fact, when I finished it, and was reviewing it, I came across this article on Microsoft Docs: What’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central . But hey,…

My last blog about my VSCode extension dates from July 2018. I have been upgrading/maintaining it meanwhile, and I am definitely not going to blog about all new small features and fixes (yes, quite necessary as well ;-)) every single time, but for this one, I really felt that an update wouldn’t hurt. What is the “CRS AL Language Extension”? The extension I’m talking about here is a free extension for VSCode that you can use to make your life for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central App Development a little bit easier. The main parts of the extension are: Running objects in windows client…