Highlighting posts and resources from the Business Central development community — January 11–17, 2026
Looking to stay current with Dynamics 365 Business Central AL development? Here’s a curated list of recent blog posts, tutorials, and community resources from the past week.
Recent Posts (January 11–17, 2026)
➡️ 1. Streamline Your AL Development with Global NuGet Symbols
📇 Author: Marcel Chabot
🗓️ Date: January 16, 2026
🌎 Link: aardvarklabs.blog
📝 Summary: Shows how to download Business Central symbols from global NuGet sources when you can’t (or don’t want to) connect to a target environment yet. Includes the key VS Code settings (like al.symbolsCountryRegion) and points you to the new AL command for downloading symbols globally.
➡️ 2. Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to Get the Month Name/Text from a Date (Two Ways)
📇 Author: Yun Zhu
🗓️ Date: January 16, 2026
🌎 Link: yzhums.com
📝 Summary: Two practical approaches for turning a Date into a friendly month name in AL. Covers both formatting patterns and the Date virtual table option, with small code snippets you can drop into an extension.
➡️ 3. Connect Any Agent to Business Central
📇 Author: Dmitry Katson
🗓️ Date: January 12, 2026
🌎 Link: katson.com
📝 Summary: Shows a practical, cross-platform way to connect an AI agent to Business Central using an MCP proxy workflow. Helpful if you’re working on macOS/Linux or want a repeatable “one command” setup for connecting tools and agents to a BC environment.
➡️ 4. Do You Have Applications Connecting to an Azure Storage Account? Be Sure to Use TLS 1.2 or Later
📇 Author: Stefano Demiliani
🗓️ Date: January 14, 2026
🌎 Link: demiliani.com
📝 Summary: Important security heads-up for BC developers using Azure Blob Storage: On February 3, 2026, Azure Blob Storage will require TLS 1.2 or later. If your Business Central integrations connect to Azure Storage, you’ll want to verify both the storage account settings and the TLS capabilities of the apps calling into it.
➡️ 5. Do You Really Need Plan Mode If You Already Use Agents Well?
📇 Author: Steven Renders
🗓️ Date: January 13, 2026
🌎 Link: thinkaboutit.be
📝 Summary: A thoughtful take on whether GitHub Copilot Plan mode is actually “new capability” versus a stronger guardrail around work sequencing. Frames Plan mode as an opinionated workflow that makes intent and planning an explicit artifact before implementation. This is useful when you want to avoid accidentally drifting into code changes.
➡️ 6. Check AppSource App Update History
📇 Author: Teddy Herryanto
🗓️ Date: January 16, 2026
🌎 Link: thatnavguy.com
📝 Summary: Quick reminder to check an AppSource app’s “last updated” date before installing. With Business Central changing every release, stale apps are higher risk for bugs and compatibility issues, so update history is a fast way to spot potential trouble early.
➡️ 7. SQL Support in Business Central, Yes, Also in the Cloud
📇 Author: Erik Hougaard
🗓️ Date: January 12, 2026
🌎 Link: hougaard.com
📝 Summary: A quick experiment-driven post (with a video) showing a proof-of-concept for using SQL “inside” cloud Business Central. Interesting if you’re exploring what’s possible (and what isn’t) when you need ad-hoc querying or data-shaping beyond standard AL patterns.
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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