Have you hit the midweek slump, and realized you have been putting off debugging that one weird issue all week? If you are on Business Central version 28 (or later), you can now let Copilot do some of the heavy lifting for you.

Have you experienced the newest bottleneck in your development process: Not being able to type your prompt fast enough. There is an extension within VS Code - "VS Code Speech" that allows you to talk to the Chat. Setup Once installed, you need to enable "Hey Code" to keep your fingers off the keyboard. Open VS Code Settings (Ctrl + ,) and search for "voice keyword".

Organizations rely on Business Central for operational and financial reporting, but many teams still export data to Excel when they need flexible analysis, custom layouts, or presentation‑ready visuals. Traditionally, this meant a significant amount of manual work: formatting, building pivot tables, adding calculated fields, and assembling dashboards. What's changed recently isn't just one new feature, it's the combination of Copilot capabilities across M365, and how they now naturally show up inside of Excel.

Have you ever seen a custom Sales Line field’s data just disappear? You sit there wondering why is that getting cleared out. There is a procedure on the Sales Header RecreateSalesLines() that…

Prompts are markdown files that are used by GitHub Copilot to assist in common development tasks. Instead of having to type out the same instructions, you can pull prompts into your chat to reuse t…

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GitHub Copilot is more than a fancy auto-complete, as it offers multiple chat modes that empower developers to interact with their code in natural language to streamline development. Whether you ne…

Have you ever wondered which apps are listening to specific events in Business Central? Or maybe you're troubleshooting why something is behaving unexpectedly. There is a hidden page that is going to change your debugging style...

In the ever-evolving world of software development, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. One of the latest tools making waves in the industry is GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant dev…

Have you used the AZ AL Dev Tools New AL File Wizard to create objects? It’s probably as fast as my cats running into the kitchen when they hear the pantry door open.  Quick, efficient, …

Queries are powerful tools for data analysis within Business Central, allowing us to perform a range of calculations that help us aggregate and make sense of our data. To do this, we set a Method property on a chosen column within our query, which gives us a clear way to "manipulate" the data. Among the built-in methods we have, there are several that work with numerical datatypes - like Decimal, Integer, Big Integer, or Duration - such as…

As a developer, we oftentimes participate in code reviews where we are either sharing our screen, or viewing someone else’s code. How hard is it to identify where some code needs to be change…

Performance issues can be the bane of our existence, especially in the middle of a busy workweek. Not only do they slow users down, but they are frustrating to try and troubleshoot, and it’s …

When developing reports, do you have to consider report usage in different languages? One of my latest implementations operates in English and French-Canadian. This blog posts collects some of the …

Learn how to create a report using an Excel layout.

Now that you are using a Query object to collect your data for report development, you are probably wondering how do you leverage a request page so users can retrieve the relevant data. This blog p…

When working with RDLC report layouts, there are many different properties available to aide in customization. This blog post will focus on how you can reset page numbers on RDLC reports, specifica…

Connecting Excel to Business Central is getting even easier in the 2024 wave 2 release (BC25). The biggest change from my original blog post – no more hardcoding Tenant Ids, and we even have …