Category: Development
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Dec 08 2025
Sunday Vibes: Vibe Coding My Pi-hole Display
Grab your coffee and favorite snack, throw on some chill music, and let me tell you about the little Sunday experiment that reaffirmed to me that dev, as we know it, is dead. Well, I wouldn’t call it dead exactly — it’s evolving into something new. Read on to find out how and why. The …
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Dec 04 2025
Binding Event Subscriptions in Business Central
Events Subscriptions in Business Central In Business Central, event subscriptions allow extensions to hook into core application logic, enabling customization without modifying base code. The publisher declares an event at an occurrence in the application. An event publisher method has a signature only and doesn’t execute any code. The publisher exposes an event to subscribers, …
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Nov 30 2025
Page Background Tasks in Business Central
What Is A Page Background Task In Business Central? A Page Background task is a technique for enhancing performance in Business Central. This method allows us to execute lengthy or resource-intensive reading processes asynchronously in the background without disrupting the user interface. Page Background tasks speed up page load times; as a result, users can …
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Mar 14 2025
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Preview PDF attachments directly in web client
The Public Preview of Microsoft Business Central Release 2025 Wave 1 is now available, and it is time to test out the available new features. One of the new features that excites me the most is the “Preview PDF attachments directly in web client” user experience feature. Previously, when needing to view a PDF attachment …
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Feb 14 2025
Real Things I’m asked: Enable Claude Sonnet in GitHub Copilot
Q. How do I enable Claude Sonnet in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Code? A. GitHub Copilot Chat uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model by default. This advanced model excels in various text-generation tasks, such as summarization and knowledge-based conversations. However, you are not restricted to using this model; you can select from other models, …
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Oct 21 2024
Putting down the Tiles in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
When viewing a List Page in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, users can view the page in List or Tile view. The tile view shows records as tiles instead of rows. By default, the fields displayed in the Tile are the first five fields as defined on the list page. Users can switch between the …
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Jul 24 2024
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Decoding Dictionaries: Unlocking the Power of Key-Value Pairs
In the AL language for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, the Dictionary data type represents an unordered collection of keys and values optimized for fast lookup of values. In a Dictionary, each key is unique and is used to access its corresponding value. The dictionary data type allows you to store key-value pairs where there …
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Jul 08 2024
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Navigating Lists
In the AL language for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a List data type is a strongly typed list of ordered objects accessed by index, starting at 1. Lists are a great alternative to arrays. Unlike arrays, lists are unbounded, which means their size doesn’t need to be declared upon creation and can grow dynamically …
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May 31 2024
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Update your AL code to the new No. Series Module
In the recent 2024 Release Wave 1 update for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft introduced the Business Foundation layer. This new foundation layer continues their ongoing effort to modularize and enhance the software architecture. They are breaking down the monolithic structure into smaller, more coherent, and related modules, which improves the system’s maintainability and …
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