A good programmer makes all the right mistakes.
This tweet reminded me of a small but beautiful trick to get a reliable xRec in all the Modify trigger events. The problem When events were introduced in C/AL code, one of the most discussed was the OnAfterModify event. Back … Read More »
I’m delighted to introduce a new book I had the pleasure of co-authoring. A book that is aiming to be a full reference for all standard Business Central APIs. It contains a lot of information about APIs in general and … Read More »
Introduction In version 2021 wave 2 (v19) a new feature was introduced, called “Extend general ledger posting aggregations”. The reason for this new feature is that the table “Invoice Post. Buffer” could not easily be extended. This table is used … Read More »
Update 24-10-2022: I’ve got word from Microsoft that the issue discussed here has been solved in version v21 (2022 wave 2). The way it has been solved is that now the function Rec.WritePermission() returns false in case of a read-only … Read More »
It’s not a secret that Microsoft is forcing OAuth authentication for several products, including Exchange Online and Business Central Online. Over the last couple of days, I got multiple requests from partners who are now struggling with configuring SMTP in … Read More »
After configuring Business Central on-premises for Azure Active Directory authentication, as explained in the previous blog post, it’s now time to configure it for OAuth authentication with APIs and web services. Two options There are two options that you can … Read More »
It’s a recurring question I get quite frequently: how to set up Business Central on-premises for Azure Active Directory authentication? And related to that, how to call APIs on Business Central on-premises with OAuth authentication? I know there are quite … Read More »
Because I got the question if it was possible to use the client credentials flow in Business Central I decided to write a quick blog post about that as well. Codeunit OAuth2 provides a number of functions to acquire access … Read More »
We continue the series about Service to Service authentication, aka Client Credentials Flow, with some tips about getting and using the access token with C#. Please see the previous posts in this series for more information about how to set … Read More »
This is the next blog post in a series about service to service authentication in Business Central. Please see the previous blog posts for more information: Usage and license terms How to set up Test with VS Code REST Client … Read More »