Good-bye Boilerplate, Hello Kiota-for-AL – Prototype, Repos & How you can help

TL;DRWe now have a working Kiota language generator for AL, a “companion app”, and a first sample project. Everything is OSS – and I need your feedback to make the current prototype production-ready. From conference stage to GitHub At ColorCloud Hamburg Tobias and I showed how Kiota – Microsoft’s cross-language OpenAPI client generator – can … Read more

Long Time, No Posts – and Why That’s About to Change

Hello y’all, yes, it’s me.No, your feed reader isn’t broken.I really am posting something after – checks watch – almost three years.(If you’re new here: welcome! If you stuck around since 2022: you deserve cookies.) Where the heck have I been? Short version: life happened.Long(er) version: right after switching jobs, the universe tossed a few … Read more

Little license helper / Update to D365BCAppHelper

I know, I know what you’re gonna say: license files are a thing of the past 😅 But even though I prefer the SaaS-model a lot over the on-prem model, we can’t forget that there are still tons of customers on-prem. And just recently I had a tedious task I didn’t want to manually do … Read more

Let’s show some more open source adoption / enhancing Azure Blob Services API

During Directions EMEA some weeks ago I not only had the chance to meet great people and have great talks with them, but also to get on stage. Together with Jesper and Maria from Microsoft we talked about open source contributions and bringing Business Central to the next level. Open Source mindset and contributions I’m … Read more

Directions EMEA 2021, Milan – some impressions and short retrospect

Directions EMEA 2021 Entrance

Yesterday I got back from Milan after some great days, packed with awesome sessions and meeting even more awesome people. As it was the first time for me attending Directions EMEA (or any Directions for that matter) I want to sum up my impressions of this. I have to be honest: it was a bit … Read more

Get platform version of Runtime Packages / Update to D365BCAppHelper (and little sign of life)

My last post was already quite a while ago. That’s mostly because the work-load right now is kind of bananas. Never thought that there be so much projects in the midst of a pandemic 😅 But at least some small update is there in the meantime, that I can share. Thanks to Kenneth Fuglsangs tweet … Read more

Yet another update for D365BCAppHelper / Read information from Runtime packages

In the last post I introduced you to a new function in the D365BCAppHelper-module – Get-D365BCManifestFromAppFile. I also informed you that it is limited to “regular” App-packages (meaning “non-Runtime-Packages” that weren’t created with Get-NAVAppRuntimePackage). But I also said that I would try to figure out if it is possible to include these as well. Spoiler … Read more