In 2023 release wave 2 (BC23), Microsoft is introducing an environment-level setting that automatically updates all installed apps with every minor update, and lets you schedule individual app updates to take place during the environment’s update window: Apps Update Cadence
Tag Archives: App
Protect your IP with Runtime Apps
If you want to protect your IP when working with on-premises Business Central, you can distribute your apps as “Runtime Apps”. In this video, I explain what a runtime app actually is, check it out:
Download source code from a policy-protected app
In this video, I’ll show how you can download the source code for a Business Central app that has been “protected” with an exposure policy. Check it out:
Regex system app
This post is about the system app Regex. It provides a set of functions that are quite useful when working with text search and replace. If you have a pattern, validations for e-mail, url, phone no. etc. can be done with a single line of code. Four main methods offered by Regex app are IsMatch, Match, Replace and Split. These methods are available with different overloads.
Remember, your app is also a webpage!
The other day, we were struggling to fit a lot of information on a page in BC when I suddenly realized that my app is also “just” a web page and that I shouldn’t be afraid of thinking about the app as a webpage. Check out the video:
I failed at future-proofing an App, or did I?
What do you do to future-proof your apps, and do you sleep when at night when Microsoft rolls out new versions of Business Central? In this video I take a look at why one of my apps didn’t work on v21, check it out:
Automated deploy of apps to Business Central with dependencies
One of the things that can be really annoying in Dynamics NAV or Business Central is the dependent apps.
What are dependent apps?
Some partners have made a base app that will contain all the basic functionality, that they use with all customers. Then they create apps that can be added to the solution but basing the solution on some data or functionality from the base app.