Jun 23 2022
BCContainerHelper is a PowerShell module that makes it easier to work with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and NAV Containers on Docker. The BCContainerHelper module contains many valuable functions that do much more than basic container management. I use this module in some form daily. Many BCContainerHelper module functions have switches and parameters; however, some …
Jun 10 2022
The June updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central are now available. Before applying the updates, you should confirm that your implementation is ready for the upgrade and ensure compatibility with your modifications. Work with a Microsoft Partner to determine if you are ready and what is needed for you to apply …
Jun 10 2022
When accepting user input in a field, it may be necessary to validate that the value matches a particular pattern. In early versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you could use the RegEx dotNet libraries to validate input against a regular expression. The RegEx dotNet libraries are not directly available in Dynamics 365 Business Central; however, …
Jun 08 2022
With each update of Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft enhances what is often referred to as the base application and enhances the development environment. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 has several exciting new features in the development environment. One of the exciting features is the In-Client Performance Profiler In 2021 release wave 2, …
Jun 06 2022
Repeatability is important! Right alongside that, in my opinion, is efficiency. A recent task required me to set up several Application Services setups, including setting the log on account and password. I could have done all of these manually; however, I found it more efficient and repeatable to set up a script to handle the …
May 28 2022
Reading this blog, one may think I focus on WordPress development and enhancements. That is not the case by any means. The focus of my career focused on the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The concept behind this blog is to share bits of [technical] “stuff” that I encounter on my journey. The …
May 26 2022
In keeping true to the concept of this blog, “Follow the life of an ERP developer, one post at a time,” this post allows you to “follow” something that I needed to crush – deleting files older than a specific number of days or hours including subfolders. Many moons ago, I created an application that …
May 25 2022
When working with Project Planning in Azure DevOps, Sprints are easy to create and assign to Work Items. While there is an easy way to make a Sprint, the option to delete a sprint in Azure DevOps isn’t quite as obvious. It may not often be that you want to delete a sprint (which may …
May 24 2022
The May updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central are now available. Before applying the updates, you should confirm that your implementation is ready for the upgrade andensure compatibility with your modifications. Work with a Microsoft Partner to determine if you are ready and what is needed for you to apply …
May 23 2022
With each update of Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft enhances what is often referred to as the base application and enhances the development environment. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 has several exciting new features in the development environment. One of the exciting features is that Users can Export Report Datasets to XML. Users …