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A few days ago, we upgraded our product from 17.0 to 17.1. We had been looking forward to this release, because we usually never release a product or customer on an RTM release of Business Central. So .. finally 17.1, finally we could continue to upgrade the product and start releasing this to customers before …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2020/11/13/business-central-v17-1-fails-your-pipeline-and-thats-ok/
If you’ve been following the latest and greatest from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you must be aware about “what’s cooking in Microsoft’s Lab“. In short, Microsoft is working on a possibility to generate a DGML file for your extension that you’re compiling. A DGML file is basically a file that contains all code cross …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2020/11/06/visualize-app-json-dependencies-in-vscode-using-graphviz/
Recently, we have been going through upgrading our 65 apps to the newest release (v17). You might wonder: upgrade? Wasn’t this supposed to be seemless? Well, let me explain what we did, how we handle stuff internally – and then maybe it does make sense to you why we take the steps we took for …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2020/10/28/upgrade-to-business-central-v17-part-1-the-workflow/
Just a small reminder for you that yet another major release has been thrown our direction: v17 aka “Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2“. Old news, I know. But I blame the pandemic ;-). I already blogged about this upcoming release, and basically the list is quite the same.In fact, besides the official Microsoft Docs …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2020/10/08/microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-2020-release-wave-2-is-released/
You must have seen this blog post from Microsoft: Maintain AppSource apps and per-tenant extensions in Dynamics 365 Business Central (online) And/or this blog of AJ: Business Central App maintenance policy tightened And/or this post from James: SaaS enables progress, why block it? If you didn’t, please do. Because as a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2020/09/28/microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-partner-devops-is-the-answer/
You are probably aware on how “secrets” work in AzureDevops. In a way, it’s simple: you can create variables, and store the value of the variable as a secret or not, simply by tapping the “lock” when creating a variable. To share variables over multiple repos, you can create a variable group, and use that …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2020/09/18/use-azure-keyvault-in-azuredevops-for-sharing-licensing-and-other-secrets/
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 …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2020/08/28/using-microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-artifacts-to-get-to-the-source-code-of-the-default-apps/
I have yet another option for you that might be interesting for you to handle the artifacts that Microsoft (Freddy) is providing in stead of actual Docker Images on a Docker Registry. What changed? Well, this shouldn’t be new to you anymore. You must have read the numerous blogposts from Freddy announcing a new way …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2020/08/18/using-devops-agent-for-prepping-your-docker-images/
I just wanted to raise some attention to a new Conference in town: DynamicsCon. Quite interesting, because it’s perfectly aligned with the current world situation regarding COVID-19 issues: it’s a virtual event .. and it’s free! I’m not saying I prefer virtual events. I don’t. But given the circumstances, I guess it makes sense – …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2020/07/30/new-upcoming-conference-dynamicscon/
You might have read my previous blog on DevOps build agents. Since then, I’ve been quite busy with DevOps – and especially with ALOps. And I had to conclude that one big bottleneck keeps being the same: a decent (stable) installation of a DevOps Build server that supports Docker with the images from Microsoft. Or …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2020/07/13/installing-a-devops-agent-with-docker-with-the-most-chance-of-success/