One of the most exciting news introduced last month in Lyon during Directions EMEA 2023 was the changes to the open-source initiative. This means that you can now contribute to the source code of the Base app and the System app, which are now based on the main development version (next-major) branch.
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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:
Spice up your source code with new colors in AL and Business Central
Spice up your source code with new colors in AL and Business Central
Download all Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Source Code with PowerShell
You might wonder: why would I need this? Why would I need to download source code of Business Central, while I can simply access it through the symbols when I’m working in VSCode – or even better, while I can simply click the symbol, and look at the code from there?
Delaying Power BI Dataset Refresh Until The Source Data Is Ready
This week a customer came to me with the following problem: they had scheduled the refresh of their dataset but their source data wasn’t always ready in time, so the old data was being loaded by mistake. The best solution here is to use some kind of external service (for example Power Automate) to poll the data source regularly to see if it’s ready, and then to refresh the dataset via the Power BI REST API when it is.
Using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Artifacts to get to the source code of the default apps
A question I get a lot – especially from people that come from C/AL, and only take their first steps into AL – is: How do I get to Microsoft’s source code of the BaseApp (and other)?
Well, there are multiple ways, really. You can download symbols, and unpack the symbols. You can download the DVD and get to the code on the DVD, or…
Business Central System App is Open Source! Contribute, don’t be shy…
With the recent Wave II release of Business Central we also got the first wave of Open Source in our beloved NAV/BC product.
This means that rather than making customization for one specific customer or ISV you can now have this pushed back into the product and stay there forever.