This is the second part of the blog post “C/AL to Extension transition alternatives: how to choose wisely.” In the first part, we reviewed the three alternatives to transition from C/AL to AL. If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, check it out now! In this blog post, we will look closer at the transition steps you need to make when moving custom functionality from C/AL to Extension in AL.
When transitioning from C/AL to Dynamics 365 Business Central Extension, you will encounter several transition alternatives, and it might be tricky to make the right choice. Read this blog post about the transition alternatives when moving from C/AL to Extension to learn how to differentiate between them to be able to make a smarter choice.
As you probably know, Microsoft released the major version of Business Central 2020 wave 1 on 1 April 2020. In this blog post, we will highlight the main features and functionalities of the latest release and discuss how 1ClickFactory can help Microsoft partners move forward and reap the benefits of the new version.
This is the second part of a two-part blog series on how to set up an Extension development environment using Visual Studio code. In this article, we will continue to detail how to set up the environment in order to be able to debug an Extension.
As a leading Microsoft Dynamics Cloud Software Factory, and one of the largest providers of Dynamics NAV/Dynamics 365 Business Central on Azure services globally, we often receive questions from Microsoft Partners about the configuration of Extension Development Environments.
Therefore, we’ve created a two-part blog series to share our best practices and to address the issues that Partners most commonly come across. In part one, we’ll be reviewing how to set up an Extension Development Environment using Visual Studio Code.
The Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS platform, with Navision at its core, has over 30 years of history and continuous product improvements. Today this time-tested, cutting-edge technology helps to revolutionize the way we do business, by providing enhanced functionality and support for ERP computing in the cloud. But when to upgrade to Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS, now or later?
Most of you are familiar with the fable about the boy who cried wolf. For me, the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Cloud offerings have been a bit like that the past few years.
The technological changes in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS market require a lot of preparation from Microsoft Dynamics Partners. Dynamics Partners often struggle to understand the level of disruption and the resources required to successfully adapt. Thus, when transitioning from C/AL to Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions, Dynamics Partners often look for an experienced consultant or solution architect who can help to analyze Microsoft Dynamics NAV solutions. It usually takes around 2-3 weeks to figure out how big the changeover to an Extension can be, which is time consuming and costly; an exercise that can often result in delays to the project.
If you read our previous blog post on a Phased transition to Business Central SaaS (if you haven’t yet, you really should read it😊) you would have noticed that we refer to Dynamics 365 Business Central in the Cloud (Microsoft’s Software as a Service solution or ‘SaaS’ for short) as to the Eldorado, or destination of gold and eternal bliss. However, if your current version of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is very outdated, you may wind up in a Sisyphean whereabouts, rather than Eldorado. In this blog post, I’ll share the best upgrade approach for very outdated Dynamics 365 Business Central solutions so that they can effectively move to the latest version. We call this upgrade concept a - “Clean Start”, aka clearing the path to Eldorado…
