Highlighting posts and resources from the Business Central development community — February 1–7, 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 (February 1–7, 2026)
➡️ 1. Birthday Message Wall (Enhancing Business Central’s HR)
📇 Author: Gerardo Rentería
🗓️ Date: February 1, 2026
🌎 Link: gerardorenteria.blog
📝 Summary: Gerardo builds a creative Birthday Message Wall extension that enhances Business Central’s HR module. The project demonstrates how to extend the Employee card with a celebratory wall where colleagues can leave birthday messages, showcasing practical AL development with a fun twist.
➡️ 2. AL Object ID Ninja MCP Server Is Here
📇 Author: Vjeko
🗓️ Date: February 2, 2026
🌎 Link: vjeko.com
📝 Summary: The official MCP Server for AL Object ID Ninja is now available on npm, bringing Ninja’s object ID management to agentic coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Windsurf. While VS Code users are already covered by the built-in Ninja extension, this MCP server lets AI coding assistants on other platforms request, commit, and unassign object IDs through the Ninja 3.0 platform.
➡️ 3. New AL Tools Available for Agents in AL Language v17.0
📇 Author: Stefan Šošić
🗓️ Date: February 2, 2026
🌎 Link: ssosic.com
📝 Summary: Stefan covers the new agent-facing tools introduced in AL Language v17.0, giving AI agents direct access to AL development capabilities within VS Code. The post details the fresh set of tools that enhance agentic workflows for Business Central extension development.
➡️ 4. Weekend Project: Teaching AI to Talk to Business Central
📇 Author: Silviu Virlan
🗓️ Date: February 3, 2026
🌎 Link: svirlan.com
📝 Summary: Silviu documents his weekend project connecting Claude to Dynamics 365 Business Central using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The walkthrough covers Azure AD app registration, enabling BC’s native MCP endpoint, and building a Python MCP server — complete with working examples of querying vendor balances and creating sales quotes through natural language.
➡️ 5. How to Run a Report in Preview Mode Without the Request Page
📇 Author: Yun Zhu
🗓️ Date: February 5, 2026
🌎 Link: yzhums.com
📝 Summary: Yun demonstrates how to preview a Business Central report directly without showing the Request Page — a common developer need that previously forced a download instead. The solution leverages BC26’s File.ViewFromStream method to save the report as a PDF and display it in the web client’s built-in PDF viewer, with full AL code examples for both report-selection-based and fixed-report approaches.
➡️ 6. Why Do All My Tests Show Up Twice in the Test Explorer?
📇 Author: James Pearson
🗓️ Date: February 5, 2026
🌎 Link: jpearson.blog
📝 Summary: James explains the duplicate-test mystery: The AL Language pre-release extension now discovers tests and puts them into VS Code’s Test Explorer alongside AL Test Runner, creating two entries per test. A bug in the AL Language extension against pre-BC28 containers can leave test runs stuck indefinitely, which is particularly problematic when AI agents attempt to run tests during code generation.
➡️ 7. Monitoring Your Customer’s Network Speed from Telemetry
📇 Author: Stefano Demiliani
🗓️ Date: February 6, 2026
🌎 Link: demiliani.com
📝 Summary: Stefano explores the new customDimensions.deviceHardware node recently added to Business Central’s page views telemetry, which exposes client-side metrics including CPU cores, device memory, network bandwidth, and round-trip time. The post includes ready-to-use KQL queries for charting average bandwidth over time, correlating network speed with page duration, and building normalized comparison dashboards.
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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