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Category Archives: Business Central

Codeunit API’s in Business Central

5 Mar
Posted on March 5, 2020July 1, 2020 52

This blog post was on my list way too long… But now I found some time to sit down and write it. Disclaimer What I’m going to show here is officially not supported (yet). It is an undocumented feature that … Read More »

API, Business Central, Web Services

Using tables instead of table extensions

3 Mar
Posted on March 3, 2020 20

Recently James Crowter wrote an excellent article about table extensions and how they affect performance. In short, table extensions are great for flexibility and ease of development, but performance decreases when the number of table extensions is adding up. Especially … Read More »

Business Central

Follow-up on secret values in a Business Central app

4 Feb
Posted on February 4, 2020 4

Wow… the community proved to be strong! About 10 days ago I asked to find the secret value in an app file and many of you really tried! Thank you so much! Before I move on, I would like to … Read More »

AL, Business Central

Contest: find the secret value in a Business Central app

23 Jan
Posted on January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 8

This is the first blog post about shipping a secret value in a Business Central app. I have prepared an app file that contains a secret value that will be stored into Isolated Storage. But I’m not 100% if this … Read More »

Business Central, Extensions

How to use the Excel Buffer in Business Central cloud

18 Jan
Posted on January 18, 2020 14

A week ago, my friend Daniel asked a question on Twitter how to use the Excel Buffer to export data with Business Central online. Many functions on the Excel Buffer are only available for on-prem. When you change the target … Read More »

AL, Business Central

Where is the API v1.0 source code?

2 Nov
Posted on November 2, 2019July 1, 2020 8

With the April ’19 release of Business Central the standard API’s were released as version 1.0. According to the documentation, the beta version of the standard API’s remains available until April 2020 (Business Central 2020 release wave 1). TL;DR API … Read More »

API, Business Central, Web Services

.Net types in AL are reference types

11 Oct
Posted on October 11, 2019 2

This week I presented a session about .Net in the AL language at Directions EMEA 2019 in Vienna. And of course, I paid attention to the types in AL that represent .Net types, like TextBuilder, List, Dictionary, Http and JSON … Read More »

AL, Business Central

Controlling the size of a Control Add-In

1 Feb
Posted on February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 19

In the previous blog post about a PDF viewer for Business Central, I promised to come back with some tips. Here is tip #1: how to get full control over the size of a control add-in. Final code of this … Read More »

Add-in, AL, Business Central, Web Client

PDF Viewer in Business Central

22 Jan
Posted on January 22, 2019January 23, 2019 24

Recently a question was raised by one of the MVP’s if somebody has an example of a PDF viewer in Business Central. That reminded me that I actually had an example, created almost one year ago. Should have published it … Read More »

Add-in, AL, Business Central, Extensions

Outbound HTTP calls blocked in Business Central Sandbox

5 Nov
Posted on November 5, 2018November 5, 2018 1

Recently I received a number of questions from people who were using the first self-monetization example code I created about a year ago. They received an error message when installing the app: Callback functions are not allowed. This error happened because … Read More »

AL, Business Central, Web Services

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