Remote Dev with VS Code against a Windows host is easy now

Apr 30, 2020

I previously wrote about remote dev and why I think this might be a game changer. At that time, it was quite a number of burning hoops you had to... [read more]

BC behind Traefik 2 (yes, that enables C/SIDE and RTC)

Mar 31, 2020

Every since the release of Traefik 2 half a year ago I wanted to give it a try. Partly because I just like trying out new stuff, but mainly because... [read more]

An update on AL interfaces: implementation details

Mar 30, 2020

I recently wrote update the new AL language feature interfaces, coming with Business Central 2020 release wave 1 (a.k.a. BC 16). While I really liked what I saw at that... [read more]

Automating organization and project creation in Azure DevOps

Mar 15, 2020

A lot of great content is available if you want to learn how to automate tasks with Azure DevOps, most often probably for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) but... [read more]

Handle secrets in Windows based GitHub actions and Docker containers

Feb 24, 2020

Handling secrets can be a tough problem, especially in automated build environments that are publicly available like GitHub actions1 in a public repository. Consider the following examples: You need to... [read more]

Creating a combined work item list from multiple Azure DevOps organizations and why that matters for GDPR

Feb 23, 2020

When working with Azure DevOps including customers, you probably are using multiple organizations as some customers will want you to run everything and some will want to use their own... [read more]

Interfaces in AL and why that matters

Feb 1, 2020

While NAV TechDays 2019 was an amazing conference with a lot of highlights and interesting news, one to me clearly stood out: The announcement that Business Central will get interfaces... [read more]

Using Azure Managed Identities in containers

Jan 6, 2020

Handling authentication and credential management is one of the key security challenges in many projects and certainly a main differentiator between PoC / dev projects and real live production grade... [read more]

Access your BC container behind traefik using the mobile app

Dec 7, 2019

If you are running multiple Business Central containers on the same VM and want to have access to them from outside of that VM, you have to implement a way... [read more]

Debugging BC when using VS Code's Remote Development (SSH) feature

Nov 4, 2019

As described in my previous blog post, you can use the Remote Development feature of VS Code to seamlessly develop with a big Azure VM as “workhorse”. However the usual... [read more]