Highlighting posts and resources from the Business Central development community — March 1–7, 2026
A strong week for the BC community — agents dominated the conversation again with posts covering everything from converting playground prototypes to production AL extensions, to orchestrating MCP tools via Copilot skills. We also saw Vjeko make a tough but transparent decision about AL Object ID Ninja’s self-hosting model, a new one-click performance analysis tool land inside Business Central, and the March 2026 cumulative update roundup.
Recent Posts (March 1–7, 2026)
➡️ 1. From Playground to AL Code: How to Convert an Agent into an Extension for Business Central
📇 Author: Javi Armesto
🗓️ Date: March 7, 2026
🌎 Link: techspheredynamics.com
📝 Summary: Javi maps the full architecture for converting a Business Central Agent Playground prototype into a distributable AL extension — centering on the enumextension that extends Agent Metadata Provider and connects three interfaces (IAgentFactory, IAgentMetadata, IAgentTaskExecution). The post covers the three-layer security model (Permission Set, Profile, Page Customizations), the ConfigurationDialog with SourceTableTemporary = true for reversible configuration, and proactive agent creation via EventSubscriber plus the AgentTaskBuilder fluent API. A complete conversion checklist ties it all together.
➡️ 2. Creating MCP Servers for Dynamics 365 Business Central with Azure Logic Apps
📇 Author: Stefano Demiliani
🗓️ Date: March 3, 2026
🌎 Link: demiliani.com
📝 Summary: Stefano walks through creating an MCP server for Business Central using Azure Logic Apps Standard — from selecting the Dynamics 365 Business Central connector and adding workflow tools, to configuring key-based authentication and connecting the server to GitHub Copilot in VS Code via mcp.json. Each connector action becomes a discoverable MCP tool that agents can call securely, giving you a scalable, low-code path to expose BC data to AI clients.
➡️ 3. AL Object ID Ninja: An Apology, a Decision, and a Month on the House
📇 Author: Vjeko
🗓️ Date: March 5, 2026
🌎 Link: vjeko.com
📝 Summary: Vjeko announces that private backend support for AL Object ID Ninja is being removed after discovering that a company was bundling access to a Ninja-compatible backend as a perk of their own paid offering — effectively undercutting the commercial service that funds Ninja’s development. The source code is now closed, and self-hosted connections will stop working in an upcoming extension update. Current private backend users get a one-month grace period on the commercial platform, or can freeze on their current extension version.
➡️ 4. One-Click Performance Analysis Inside Business Central
📇 Author: SShadowS
🗓️ Date: March 3, 2026
🌎 Link: blog.sshadows.dk
📝 Summary: SShadowS releases a BC extension that adds an “Analyze with AL Perf” button directly to the Performance Profiler page — one click sends the profile data to the AL Perf Analyzer service, which rebuilds the call tree and runs pattern detectors for single method dominance, repeated sibling calls (N+1), event subscriber hotspots, and deep call stacks. An AI layer (Claude) then generates a plain-English summary with root causes ranked by impact. The VS Code path with snapshot .zip files adds source correlation to prove syntactic nesting and flag missing SetLoadFields.
➡️ 5. Agent Skills + MCPs: Check Your BC Extension Health in VS Code
📇 Author: Gerardo Rentería
🗓️ Date: March 7, 2026
🌎 Link: gerardorenteria.blog
📝 Summary: Gerardo builds a reusable GitHub Copilot agent skill (.github/skills/bc-extension-health/) that orchestrates YAMPI and BC Telemetry Buddy to diagnose extension health across all tenant environments — reading app.json for the extension ID, querying YAMPI for installed versions, then running a KQL query against Application Insights covering six lifecycle events (LC0010–LC0023). A single chat message triggers the full flow and produces a unified Markdown report with environment status tables.
➡️ 6. Cumulative Update Summary for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (March 2026)
📇 Author: Yun Zhu
🗓️ Date: March 7, 2026
🌎 Link: yzhums.com
📝 Summary: Yun Zhu’s monthly CU tracker is updated for March 2026 — BC28 public preview is available (Platform 28.0.46613.0 + Application 28.0.46665.46791), BC27 is on CU05 (W1 27.5), and BC24 reaches end of life with CU18. The post includes direct links to release notes, download pages, and the BC admin center for each version still in support.
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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