Highlighting posts and resources from the Business Central development community — April 5–April 11, 2026
A quieter week as the BC28 GA dust settles, but quality over quantity. Erik Hougaard showed how BC28 lets you define Analysis Views directly in AL code, and Yun Zhu walked through the new native Test Explorer in VS Code for running AL tests. Waldo shipped a community-powered knowledge base for BC Telemetry Buddy — markdown files that feed proven KQL patterns and investigation playbooks directly into AI sessions. Ivan Singleton documented the full journey of connecting both Dataverse and Business Central to Claude Desktop via MCP, and Amol Salvi introduced GoLive Guard, a structured audit framework for catching configuration gaps before go-live.
Recent Posts (April 5–11, 2026)
➡️ 1. New in BC28: Analysis Views in AL Code
📇 Author: Erik Hougaard
🗓️ Date: April 6, 2026
🌎 Link: hougaard.com
📝 Summary: BC28 opens up Analysis Views to AL code for the first time — a capability that was previously only available through the UI. Erik takes the new feature for a spin in a video walkthrough, demonstrating how to declare and use analysis views programmatically. Useful for developers building analytical extensions that need pre-configured financial analysis views shipped as part of the app.
➡️ 2. BC Telemetry Buddy: Now with (Community) Knowledge
📇 Author: Waldo
🗓️ Date: April 7, 2026
🌎 Link: waldo.be
📝 Summary: BC Telemetry Buddy (BCTB) adds a two-layer knowledge base — community and local — that loads automatically when you start a telemetry session. The community layer ships proven KQL patterns, event interpretations, and investigation playbooks as plain markdown files; the local layer lets you save customer-specific patterns. Everything works across AI clients (VS Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor) because it loads at the MCP server level, and contributions flow back through GitHub. Ask the AI to “save this for next time” after an investigation and it writes the KB article for you.
➡️ 3. Auditing Business Central Before Go-Live: A Structured Approach
📇 Author: Amol Salvi
🗓️ Date: April 8, 2026
🌎 Link: bcaihub.com
📝 Summary: Introduces GoLive Guard, a structured audit framework for Business Central implementations. The tool validates posting setups (G/L, VAT, Inventory), checks data integrity between ledgers and master data, flags future-dated or invalid entries, and categorizes findings as Critical, Warning, or Passed. The goal: catch configuration gaps and data inconsistencies before they surface in production, not after.
➡️ 4. How We Connected Dataverse and Business Central to Claude via MCP
📇 Author: Ivan Singleton
🗓️ Date: April 8, 2026
🌎 Link: ivansingleton.dev
📝 Summary: A detailed walkthrough of standing up a dual MCP setup so Claude Desktop can query both Business Central (via OData v4) and Dataverse (via Web API) in a single conversation. Ivan documents the official @microsoft/dataverse npm package’s 30-second timeout and stdout-pollution issues under Claude Desktop, the community codeurali/mcp-dataverse server that sidesteps both, and the critical but under-documented step of creating an Application User in Power Platform Admin Center. The result: 73 Dataverse tools alongside BC, enabling cross-system prompts like comparing CRM pipeline value against BC accounts receivable.
➡️ 5. BC28: Run AL Tests from Visual Studio Code (Test Codeunits and Test Methods)
📇 Author: Yun Zhu
🗓️ Date: April 9, 2026
🌎 Link: yzhums.com
📝 Summary: BC28 brings a native Test Explorer to VS Code for AL development. Yun walks through the new run profiles — Publish & Run, Run, Run & Debug, and Coverage — and notes current limitations: isolated AI tests aren’t supported, test runner codeunit events are not triggered, and Coverage doesn’t detect non-code sources. A developer-focused look at what works and what doesn’t yet in the first iteration of integrated AL test running.
Community Resources
Official Resources
GitHub Repositories
- microsoft/BCApps – Repository for collaboration on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central applications.
- microsoft/BCTech – Business Central technology samples.
- microsoft/ALAppExtensions – Repository for collaboration on Microsoft AL application add-on and localization extensions for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- microsoft/AL – Home of the Dynamics 365 Business Central AL Language extension for Visual Studio Code.
- StefanMaron/MSDyn365BC.Code.History – Contains the Microsoft Business Central Code. Updated each month.
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