Highlighting posts and resources from the Business Central development community — March 22–28, 2026
Agentic development stayed front and center this week while practical tooling posts rounded out the mix. Stefano Demiliani answered the question everyone asks during demos — how many Copilot credits does an agent actually consume? — and Javi Armesto wired his HR Absence Agent into BC’s Tasks AL API for event-driven execution. On the tooling side, Amol Salvi walked through the new NuGet-based symbol download in BC v28, Steve Endow automated Business Central screenshots with Playwright, and Waldo reflected on the skills gap behind the BC Telemetry Buddy. Steven Renders untangled Power BI licensing for BC, and Teddy Herryanto shared a practical RDLC tip for resetting page numbers per group.
Recent Posts (March 22–28, 2026)
➡️ 1. Dynamics 365 Business Central: How Many Copilot Credits My Agent Consumes?
📇 Author: Stefano Demiliani
🗓️ Date: March 24, 2026
🌎 Link: demiliani.com
📝 Summary: Every BC agent demo triggers the same question: how many Copilot credits does this cost? Stefano breaks down Copilot credit consumption for both standard and custom Business Central agents, covering the metering model and what to expect when running agents in production. Essential reading before budgeting agent workloads.
➡️ 2. Connecting an Agent to the Business Central Nervous System: Tasks AL API in Practice
📇 Author: Javi Armesto
🗓️ Date: March 24, 2026
🌎 Link: techspheredynamics.com
📝 Summary: Continuing the HR Absence Agent series, Javi wires the agent into BC’s Tasks AL API so it can react to Business Central events without being explicitly called. The post covers event-driven agent architecture — how to register task listeners, route BC triggers to agent logic, and give agents autonomous execution paths within the platform.
➡️ 3. Download Symbols from NuGet Feed in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central v28
📇 Author: Amol Salvi
🗓️ Date: March 23, 2026
🌎 Link: bcaihub.com
📝 Summary: BC v28 introduces the ability to download symbols directly from global NuGet feeds using a new VS Code command. Amol walks through the setup — configuring custom NuGet feeds, limiting to custom-only sources, and targeting country-specific symbol packages — giving AL developers more flexibility and less dependency on connected environments.
➡️ 4. Which Power BI License Do You Need for Business Central?
📇 Author: Steven Renders
🗓️ Date: March 26, 2026
🌎 Link: thinkaboutit.be
📝 Summary: One of the most common questions when setting up Power BI with Business Central: do I need a paid license? Steven explains the two ways Power BI works with BC, why a paid license is required for the full experience, and what happens without one. A concise reference to bookmark before your next customer Power BI conversation.
➡️ 5. Automatically Capturing Business Central Screenshots Using Playwright
📇 Author: Steve Endow
🗓️ Date: March 27, 2026
🌎 Link: blog.steveendow.com
📝 Summary: Building an AppSource app user guide that needed 21 screenshots, Steve refused to capture them manually. He teamed Playwright — a browser automation tool — with GitHub Copilot to build scripts that log into Business Central, navigate pages, enter data, and save perfectly sized screenshots automatically. A fun, practical look at using browser automation for BC documentation workflows.
➡️ 6. BC Friday Tips #67: Reset Page Number in RDLC
📇 Author: Teddy Herryanto
🗓️ Date: March 27, 2026
🌎 Link: thatnavguy.com
📝 Summary: Part of the long-running BC Friday Tips series, Teddy shows how to restart page numbering per group in RDLC report layouts. Handy when generating grouped documents — per-customer statements, per-vendor summaries — where each group should start at page 1.
➡️ 7. I Built the Tool … but Forgot the Skill…
📇 Author: Waldo
🗓️ Date: March 28, 2026
🌎 Link: waldo.be
📝 Summary: After months of building the BC Telemetry Buddy — an MCP-powered tool that lets you chat with your telemetry data — Waldo pauses to reflect on a realization: having a great tool isn’t enough if you don’t understand the underlying skill. A thoughtful piece on the gap between tooling and telemetry knowledge, and why developers still need to invest in learning KQL and telemetry fundamentals.
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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