Blog
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Control Add-ins Supercharged – Kicking off
Control add-ins have always been my passion. Not only because I’ve been working with JavaScript since 1996, and I could call it my mother tongue, but because I just love how they allow us to create amazing user interfaces.
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Codeunit Interfaces – this time for real!
There is a particular programming language feature that I’ve always missed in AL (and C/AL for that matter): interfaces. I’ve dreamt about it, then blogged about it, then finally created a feature request in Microsoft’s AL GitHub repository.
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NAV TechDays 2019: {ConnectApp}² demos
This year’s NAV TechDays was again an amazing event. More than 1400 participants, 18 sessions, great content, it again surpassed the records set last year. It was an honor and a pleasure to be able to speak again.
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Microsoft.Dynamics.NAV.InvokeExtensibilityMethod
Now that you are done through this mouthful of the title, you may recognize that it’s the method you invoke when you want to run a control add-in trigger in AL from JavaScript.
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Tips & Tricks: Going full screen with control add-ins in BC150
Long time no see here, for I don’t know which time. That’s how it is these days, life kicks in, work kicks in, stuff kicks in, and then time flies and months go between posts here.
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Business Central AI Demos and Hands-ons
Those of you who know me, know that a big part of what I do is delivering talks at conferences. Talks, workshops, demos, that kind of stuff. More often than not, quite a lot of time goes into preparation of demos and labs, and also more often than not, the stuff that I prepare just […]
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Using Font Awesome icons in control add-ins
This post has been long overdue. I’ve had it in my to-do list for nearly four years now, but it always ended up in the not today category. Funny how many times I’ve implemented it already, and how many times I’ve presented this, and I never ever found a few minutes to create a demo repository and a blog to come with it.
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Using complex types with custom APIs
Out-of-the-box Business Central APIs often use complex types. Addresses on entities and documents, line details, units of measures, journal dimensions, these are just a few examples. There may be more. A typical instance of a complex type looks like this: The question is: can you do something like this in your own custom APIs?
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Business Central Sandbox is not the same as Preview
Just in case you have fallen victim of the confusion I see often in online communities, blogs, but also Microsoft official documentation: Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox is not the same as Dynamics 365 Business Central preview. They are two different things.
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How do I: Really set up Azure Active Directory based authentication for Business Central APIs
In just under two weeks I’ll have to present how to use OAuth 2.0 authentication to call REST APIs of Dynamics 365 Business Central. Should be easy. Not only I have already done OAuth integrations , but there is also a nice step-by-step tutorial by Microsoft specifically done for Business Central.