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.

Source : PEIK’S CORNER
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How to Extract BC 365 Base App using artifacts

Probably most of you already know that with the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 Wave 2 release, we have the ability to modify the Base App. But to extract Dynamics 365 Business Central Base App as .al files that would compile might be quite difficult. As you have probably noticed, picture/image functionality on Docker is becoming outdated in Business Central 365 latest releases.

Source : Simplanova
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Forbidden Knowledge: How To Find Field Values from External Apps in Business Central

I was working on a report in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central recently, and the client wanted the report to show a value from an extension that was not a dependency for my customizations app. Because I am lazy efficient, I did not want to go to the trouble of adding an entire separate app as a dependency just to get a single field onto one report. Adding dependencies is a lot of work and requires future maintenance, and it just wasn’t worth it.

Source : ArcherPoint
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