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Dependency Analysis Tool (ALDependencyAnalysis)
Remember this post? Probably not. Nearly a year ago at Directions US, I showed some “how did I do stuff” during a number of sessions. And it ended with a lot of feedback, which came down to: “can I...
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Multi Root Workspaces in VSCode for AL Development – Episode 2
Remember my blog post on “Multi-root workspaces in VSCode for AL Development“? If not – it might be interesting to read first, because this is in fact an “extension” (get it?) on it .. so you might...
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Virtual Event, June 3rd, 2020
It was quite expected, I guess. After alle the cancellations of Business Central conferences, like NAVTechDays, Directions, Days of Knowledge, .. , Microsoft announced today that they will host a...
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Getting not-out-of-the-box information with the out-of-the-box web client
A few days ago, I saw this tweet:Do you need to see current the database size for a company broken down into table sizes? In #MSDyn365BC 2020 release wave 1, you can do that in the new Table...
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Deploying from DevOps the right way: enabling External Deployment in OnPrem...
It seems that lately, I’m only able to blog about something when I have a tool to share.. . That needs to change .. :-/. But not today. Today, I’m going to share yet another tool that we at the...
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Deploying from DevOps the right way (Part 2): Deploying to OnPrem Business...
You might have read my previous blogpost on how to enable the “external deployment” in an OnPrem Business Central environment. Well, that post deserved an “extension” as I didn’t provide examples on...
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Microsoft Dynamics 365: 2020 release wave 2 plan
That’s right. It’s time again for the next round of features that Microsoft is planning for the next major release. It’s weird this time, lacking most info from conferences .. the kind of “silent”...
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Installing a DevOps Agent (with Docker) with the most chance of success
You might have read my previous blog on DevOps build agents. Since then, I’ve been quite busy with DevOps – and especially with ALOps. And I had to conclude that one big bottleneck keeps being the...
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Installing a DevOps Agent (with Docker) with the most chance of success
You might have read my previous blog on DevOps build agents. Since then, I’ve been quite busy with DevOps – and especially with ALOps. And I had to conclude that one big bottleneck keeps being the...
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New Upcoming Conference: DynamicsCon
I just wanted to raise some attention to a new Conference in town: DynamicsCon.Quite interesting, because it’s perfectly aligned with the current world situation regarding COVID-19 issues: it’s a...
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Using DevOps Agent for prepping your Docker Images
I have yet another option for you that might be interesting for you to handle the artifacts that Microsoft (Freddy) is providing in stead of actual Docker Images on a Docker Registry.What changed?Well,...
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Using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Artifacts to get to the source...
A question I get a lot – especially from people that come from C/AL, and only take their first steps into AL – is: How do I get to Microsoft’s source code of the BaseApp (and other)? Well, there are...
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Use Azure KeyVault in AzureDevops for sharing licensing and other secrets
You are probably aware on how “secrets” work in AzureDevops. In a way, it’s simple: you can create variables, and store the value of the variable as a secret or not, simply by tapping the “lock” when...
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You wonder how? The answer is “DevOps”!
You must have seen this blog post from Microsoft: Maintain AppSource apps and per-tenant extensions in Dynamics 365 Business Central (online)And/or this blog of AJ: Business Central App maintenance...
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 release wave 2 is Released!
Just a small reminder for you that yet another major release has been thrown our direction: v17 aka “Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2“. Old news, I know. But I blame the pandemic ;-). I already...
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Upgrade to Business Central V17 (part 1) – The Workflow
Recently, we have been going through upgrading our 65 apps to the newest release (v17). You might wonder: upgrade? Wasn’t this supposed to be seemless?Well, let me explain what we did, how we handle...
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Visualize app.json dependencies in VSCode (using GraphViz)
If you’ve been following the latest and greatest from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you must be aware about “what’s cooking in Microsoft’s Lab“. In short, Microsoft is working on a...
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Business Central V17.1 fails your pipeline .. and that’s OK
A few days ago, we upgraded our product from 17.0 to 17.1. We had been looking forward to this release, because we usually never release a product or customer on an RTM release of Business Central. So...
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Run your own AppSource Validation
Quite honestly, I’m fully into the process of getting our apps (about 30 of them) to AppSource. We chose to have OnPrem implementations first, basically to get the experience, and also because it just...
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Download all Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Source Code with PowerShell
You might wonder: why would I need this? Why would I need to download source code of Business Central, while I can simply access it through the symbols when I’m working in VSCode – or even better,...
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