Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is an enterprise resource planning system developed by Microsoft. The product is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and is the successor product to Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Here you’ll find content concerning AL programming and BC related technology.
In my last project I had, once again, the task to develop an external webservice connection in NAV 2016 (C/AL). The goal was to fetch orders from an API in dynamics nav and write back some states. In itself this is of course a simple story. But in this case, I came across GraphQL for […]
In a recent Business Central 16 OnPrem project, a colleague had the problem of having to detect whether a printer was online or offline. Based on this, he wanted to decide on which device the printout should land. After making sure that we were dealing exclusively with network printers, we decided to check whether a […]
Over the last few days, I’ve been doing a bit of research on Azure KeyVaults in BC. Actually. we want to setup our Extensions to retrieve API keys, passwords etc. from the latter. This has the advantage that we no longer have to hide the secrets somewhere in the code, but in a central location…. […]
We currently had a customer’s requirement to create a local test environment from a Business Central Cloud backup (BacPac). To achieve this using Docker, FreddyK’s blog post is very helpful and recommended. After we cleared all the hurdles and had a working database, we constantly ran into the following License error in Business Central when […]
Recently we faced an interesting support case with one of our addon customers migrating to Business Central v17. On the customers site, the REST Api calls of our server-side DotNet component constantly kept running into TLS/SSL errors. Since a non-transparent proxy is used in the customer environment it was obvious where the problem had its […]
In a recent project, I had the requirement to create barcodes in a simple and straightforward way. In this context I came across the Open-Source component ZXing. For this component, which is originally implemented in Java, there is fortunately also a C# port on GitHub available. With its help, you can read and write barcodes […]
In the last days I had the case that I worked in an older Business Central v13 customer database with the latest AL Language Extension. What normally works largely without problems, has cost me nerves at the example of the Enums. You get methods displayed that are only supported in more recent versions. So I […]
This is just an undocumented snipped of my KSORT (php) implementation in C/AL using .NET. Maybe someone of you also has the requirement to implement this sorting algorithm. I had to use it in combination with a HMAC calculation for a REST request call. Yes, this doesn’t cover all functions KSORT offers, but it might […]
Here you find a snippet to print to a socket directly in Business Central OnPrem or Dynamics NAV (as the DotNet could be run in C/AL as well). This could be helpful if you would like to print to e.g., Zebra Printers using ZPL. For testing purposes, I can recommend the ZPL Test App for […]
The other day I had a task where I had to do quite an elaborate calculation to be displayed on a Business Central page. Finally I was able to use the new page background task functionality. The idea behind these page background tasks ist as genius as it is simple. Let’s load intensive data in […]
