Join us for an insightful session where we'll explore the exciting capabilities of Copilot Studio and Power Platform, tailored for developers!

Discover how you can use these tools to unlock new possibilities to build copilots, automate business processes, and enhance your development projects . With Copilot Studio, you can connect your own copilot to data using pre-built plugins ((including Business Central plugin) or custom plugins, design custom workflows, and manage your copilots in one central place.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how you can enable innovation with Business Central, Copilot Studio and Power Platform

Join this session to discover the latest advancements in Business Central integration with Power Platform. Dive into extending Business Central using Power Platform tools, automating data entry, crafting advanced approval workflows, using new actions and improvements, and effortlessly integrating AI builder and GPT-based logic into your business workflows.

Don't miss out on unlocking power platform based powerful possibilities for your automation ideas.

We want to show interesting design and event patterns based on the functionality that was added lately to inspire partner write a good code. We will cover how to request for the events, new patterns with orchestrator, configurable enums, isolated events and temporary tables with a focus on extensibility

Historically BC code was never written with testability in mind. When coding tests against this code, it leaves us with ample option than setting up a lot of data before the action under test can be exercised.

Ideally you probably would like to refactor your code to comply with SOLID principles and make your automated test effort overall much simpler. But often our vast code heritage and new projects ahead do not allow us to get that prioritized and leaves us with non-SOLID code to write test automation against.

In this workshop you will learn about, and apply, various ways to efficiently set up data when creating automated tests for code that does not comply with SOLID principles.

Prerequisites:

• Laptop

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 12 June is sold out!

All anyone talks about these days is Generative AI, ChatGPT and Copilot. It's everywhere and it's not going anywhere. What if you could build your own copilot to help your customers, co-workers or community to quickly find relevant information and perform actions on your behalf? You can! And I can show you how. You don't need to be a rocket scientist or even a developer.

Prerequisites:

• Laptop

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 12 June is sold out!

Ever searched YouTube for "Power Automate flows"? There are 100s of videos, maybe more! Try searching for "Power Automate flows for Business Central" and you'll find about a dozen. And most of them focus on the simple demo examples of Workflow approval or create flows using out-of-the-box BC API pages.

Great for some demo magic, but it doesn't get you very far when you need to create flows for the real world.

Here's where I can help. I'll teach you how to use data from your custom tables and pages, and call bound actions to run code in Business Central from your Power Automate flow.

And best of all, it's not really that hard once you learn how it's done. No fluff, no kool-aid, just real talk and real examples.

SOLID principles are key to developing high-quality software, and they're just as relevant in the AL world as anywhere else. In this workshop, you'll see firsthand how applying these principles to Business Central development leads to more maintainable, flexible, better-structured code that stands the test of time and adapts easily to new requirements.

The workshop will focus on each of the five SOLID principles: it explains what they mean in theory, and shows how to apply it with a lot of practical, easy-to-follow examples in AL. The workshop follows a case study example, designed for a comprehensive hands-on experience, where you'll transform an existing AL solution written in traditional way into one that applies SOLID principles throughout. This isn't just about making minor adjustments; it's about reshaping the code entirely to make it more robust, easier to read and maintain, and efficient to test.

By participating, you'll gain valuable skills in enhancing the quality and testability of your AL code. This workshop is about providing you with the tools and knowledge to write Business Central code that is not only functional but also - well - solid, on every possible level, code that's ready for the cloud and the challenges of tomorrow's business requirements.

Prerequisites:

• To attend this workshop you need a laptop, with access to a development environment (either an online sandbox, or local Docker) where you can deploy and develop without limitations.

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

This workshop is sold out (both days)!

Let's face it, testing AL code isn't exactly the highlight of anyone's day. It's often seen as a chore – time-consuming to write and even more so to run. But what if it didn't have to be that way?

This deep dive session is going to change your perspective on unit tests. Forget the tedious integration tests; we're talking about the real champions – simple, fast, and accurate unit tests. They're your first line of defense against those pesky bugs and regressions. You'll see why they're so crucial and how they can actually make your life easier.

But the real game-changer? Test doubles. These are the secret sauce to making testing in AL a walk in the park. This session demystifies them for you – what they are, the different types there are, and the right time to use each one for maximum efficiency.

It's not just talk, though. You'll see a lot of code that will turn your view on both coding and testing upside down! You'll see how to tackle dependencies, and how to interact with the base and system apps in a clean, testable way. And yes, we'll answer that burning question: can you really trust test doubles and what is it that you are truly testing?

Join this session and learn how to elevate your testing game in AL. It's all about writing clean, efficient, robust, code and sharp, focused, meaningful tests that don't feel like a drag.

How can I split my monolithic application into smaller, maintainable modular applications? Join us in this session where we will present our new obsoletion feature which allows for tables and fields to be moved between applications. While it is limited to internal applications, we will present how and where you might be able to use it in the future.

This session explores the new namespaces in AL. We'll discuss our namespace choices, provide guidance on using namespaces and talk about the tooling around these, as well as the challenges and opportunities they bring.

What has changed in the AL Language Extension and other tools.

In this workshop you will experience how to work with AL in an environment with multiple developers working in the same environments with projects with different timelines. We will go through how to assign projects to the various developers and how to commit changes to development and UAT environments without stepping on each other’s toes. We will also go through the process of isolating development that has been tested and the deployment to the live environment.

The agenda will be:

• What is Git?
• What is Github?
• Developing extensions with Visual Studio code
• Live, UAT, Test and external docker environments
• Setting up organizations
• Branch strategies
• Locking the Master branch
• Creating Pull Requests development branch
• Reviewing Pull Requests
• Cherry picking commits or merge commits?
• Merging master into development branch
• Handling conflicts
• Handling object numbers
• Tools that can help AL-Go, GitBash, GitLens m.v.
• Introduction to CI/CD through AL-Go for GitHub
• Implementing your own Feature Management solution

And a couple of tips for best practices.

Prerequisites:

• Laptop

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 12 June is sold out!

During this workshop, participants will learn more advanced functionalities of the AL language, such as Variants and RecRefs, creating and using Queries, creating and using Lists and Dictionaries, using Interfaces, using InStream and OutStream, using NameSpaces, creating error messages in a more advanced manner, creating custom APIs and extending standard APIs, creating and using External Business Events, and using SystemApp modules, such as integration with SharePoint, Azure Blob Storage, and others.

Prerequisites:

• Laptop

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

This workshop is sold out (both days)!

This session will cover Microsoft internal setup for application development, build, validation and deployment and how we are migrating our application development team onto GitHub based on AL-Go. What are we migrating and how? What challenges do we foresee in moving from our highly custom setup to AL-Go and GitHub, and how are we planning on bridging the gap between these systems, including future features and capabilities needed in AL-Go to support our transition.

What has changed in the AL Language Extension and other tools.

Unlock the full potential of your business with the Shopify Connector for Dynamics 365 Business Central. In this comprehensive session, we introduce and delve into the intricacies of this powerful integration, covering its capabilities, troubleshooting techniques, and customization options for partners.

Show how to implement new AL scenarios that we enabled with 24W1 like barcode scanning, worksheet pages on mobile and multi file upload. We will also cover new Copilot toolkit capabilities like nudge, placeholder text and prompt guides. Lastly, couple notable UX changes like Fluent calendar and removal of legacy views.

In this workshop, we review each part of the table of contents specific to the MB-820 Exam: Business Central Developer Associate, with different examples:

• Business Central environments
• Development environments
• Debugging
• Different Business Central objects
• UI Experience
• Extending Business Central
• Tools
• Business Central integrations (API, REST,...)

You will learn where to find information to study to prepare for the exam and the kinds of questions that you can find in it.

Prerequisites:

• Your laptop with VS Code installed
• You must have a wide knowledge of development in Business Central. This is not a Business Central programming course.

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 12 June is sold out!

This session will introduce you to Microsoft's Copilot testing toolkit, a suite designed to help AL developers navigate the evolving landscape of large language models (LLMs). Discover strategies for writing robust tests that validate the safety and accuracy of your Copilot features, ensuring your applications meet the highest standards of quality.

Ensuring a pleasant experience for end-users, even in error situations, and empowering them to resolve their own issues is crucial. In recent releases we have developed several features to achieve this. In this presentation, we will delve into the enhancements for more user-friendly and efficient error handling in AL, including collectible errors, adding navigation to errors etc. Attendees will gain insights into how to optimize error resolution, improve user satisfaction, and streamline their support processes

Come and learn some of the most effective best practices we follow in Microsoft to protect the data we are entrusted with. From coding guidelines to reviews our developers need to go through before shipping a feature.

Virtual Tables and Business Events represent new concepts in integrating Dynamics 365 Business Central with other applications, regardless of whether the application is a custom .Net application or an application built with Power Platform.

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Create and use Virtual Tables to access and manipulate Dynamics 365 Business Central data.
• Subscribe to and publish Business Events to trigger and handle workflows and processes across custom applications, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Deep dive into webhooks and demystify Business Events to handle specific scenarios and requirements.
• Track and monitor telemetry data to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues using Application Insights

Modern Business Central solutions typically are composed of multiple extensions, but also external integrations to some kind of webservice, other 3rd-party components or even alternative frontends become more and more common. While we have established ideas how to assure the quality of the BC components, it often is not as clear what we should do to also make sure the rest has the required quality level.

In this session we will look at different scenarios, covering frontend and performance testing, but also a bit of chaos engineering. Afterwards, you should have a good idea how to approach quality assurance outside of BC as well.

This session will introduce Tri-State locking: a more optimistic reading schematic for AL.

Exploring how the runtime determines what locks should be taken when interacting with the database, what differences Tri-State versus the previous locking behaviour, introduce SQL locking schematics, and finally update the recommendation to AL developers.

Show how to implement new AL scenarios that we enabled with 24W1 like barcode scanning, worksheet pages on mobile and multi file upload. We will also cover new Copilot toolkit capabilities like nudge, placeholder text and prompt guides. Lastly, couple notable UX changes like Fluent calendar and removal of legacy views.

Microsoft recently introduced a new E-documents framework, which has now been expanded with great new features. This framework is designed for effortless extension through partner-based customizations or localizations. In this session, we will delve into the standard framework's components and demonstrate practical methods for extending it adding new features or services. This session is for developers only.

If you want to maximize the throughput of your Business Central online environments, then this session is for you.

The Business Central online service scales automatically to accommodate the load you throw at it, and we will explain how it does that.

Does this mean that you can never have problems with performance in BC online? Of course not. The responsibility for getting high throughput is shared between Microsoft and partners, and we will cover design and configuration patterns for achieving high throughput as well as ways to troubleshoot when performance problems do appear.

This session offers a deep dive into how to leverage some of the newer authorization concepts in BC online: Security groups, service to service auth (S2S), new Dynamics 365 Business Central Administrator role, and more. How do they work, when to use them, and how to troubleshoot them?

This session will cover Microsoft internal setup for application development, build, validation and deployment and how we are migrating our application development team onto GitHub based on AL-Go. What are we migrating and how? What challenges do we foresee in moving from our highly custom setup to AL-Go and GitHub, and how are we planning on bridging the gap between these systems, including future features and capabilities needed in AL-Go to support our transition.

You are probably already tired of listening to sessions about clean code by now. BUT HEAR US OUT!

Imagine a world where a user can choose to not validate fields. Imagine the chaos. Imagine the support tickets.
Now why should developers decide to not validate? Because developers know all the code? Maybe back in the days but certainly not today!

We would like to show you our idea on how to validate and explain why we think it's important.
We prepared some real life examples, broken code, infinite loops, and other coding goodies.

Join us in our session and let`s discuss some concepts and ideas along with some challenges regarding the rule to ALWAYS call validate on fields.

Join this session to learn how Microsoft using the advanced prompt engineering techniques and LLM capabilities to work with natural language for its own 1st party immersive features. We will walk you step by step how these techniques help to build features like Copilot for sales lines. This session will focus on using functional calling (tools), toolkit capabilities, good AL patterns and samples.

Join this session to learn how Microsoft using the advanced prompt engineering techniques and LLM capabilities to work with natural language for its own 1st party immersive features. We will walk you step by step how these techniques help to build features like Copilot for sales lines. This session will focus on using functional calling (tools), toolkit capabilities, good AL patterns and samples.

Are you inspired by the Copilot demonstrations from the Keynote? Join us in this practical session to discover how you can bring similar AI-powered functionalities to your own Business Central extensions. This session is tailor-made for those eager to dive into the technical aspects of AI implementation.

What You'll Learn:

• Copilot UI Elements: Discover how to add unique Copilot UI features to improve interaction in your extensions.
• AI Integration: Learn the basics of integrating AI with Business Central, from connecting your code with Azure OpenAI Service to using AI features like function calling.
• Advanced AI Techniques: Dive into AI prompt techniques, including JSON handling, and explore RAG techniques for enhanced data retrieval.

Session Outcome:

You will leave with a solid understanding of AI integration techniques, ready to innovate and implement your own AI-driven projects in Business Central. Whether you're a developer or a tech enthusiast, this session will provide you with the essential knowledge and inspiration needed to start your journey into AI-enhanced applications.

Come to this workshop and try to implement your own copilot experiences in Business Central with Azure OpenAI Service.

What you will learn:

• AI Integration in System Application: Learn how to utilize the System.AI namespace to connect your AL code with Azure OpenAI Service and introduce AI functionalities like GPT in Business Central extensions.
• The PromptDialog Page Type: Discover the PromptDialog page's role in crafting generative AI experiences within Business Central, complete with unique visuals and comprehensive safety features.
  
• Management and Monitoring: Master the use of your partner Azure AI key for effective Azure resource management, consumption tracking, and billing, with insights from Power BI.
  
• Advanced AI Techniques: Engage with various AI prompt techniques like summarization, explanation, JSON handling, and task fulfillment. Discover RAG techniques involving embeddings in AL, data retrieval, and vector databases.
  
  

Hands-on Experience:

• Building Practical Applications: Participants will actively create their own Copilot AI experiences, applying the concepts learned in a practical setting.
• Extensive Resources: Access in-depth guides and code samples for effective learning and application.

Who Should Attend:

• Developers, IT professionals, and business analysts interested in AI integration within Business Central will find this workshop immensely beneficial. It offers a comprehensive introduction and deeper insights into AI applications.

Prerequisites:

• Laptop

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

This workshop is sold out (both days)!

Are you using the HttpClient in AL? And are you using it in the right way? You may think that if it works, then it should be ok. It looks quite straightforward, right? However, some underlying issues go unnoticed until you use the HttpClient under a heavier load. And when you run into those issues, you may have less time to figure out what's happening. Solving those issues might even require a redesign of the code. So you better do it right from the beginning!

In this session, we will look into those potential issues and show the best way of using the HttpClient in your solution. We will also look into the new Rest Client module in the system app and how to implement that in your solution. Including a sneak peek into a module that pushes the Rest Client module to the next level with support for OAuth and endpoint configuration!

Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and dive into the coding trenches with true OGs? This session is FOR OGs, by OGs. And if you don't know what that stands for: "Original Gangsters." No, not dinosaurs, because we are not extinct, are we? 😉

This session is all about embracing the oh-so-many changes. We'll explore some of the topics that we think are very important to cover. Obviously not as a deep, deep dive session, but more like a touch of joy on what has changed and what to look forward to, like:

• Automated Testing: Because real OGs never let bugs cramp their style.
• Breaking Changes: Navigate the evolution without losing your cool.
• CodeCops: Keep your code in line and avoid getting busted by bad practices.
• Looking into Source: Peek under the hood and understand the magic.
• Compiler Directives: Direct the compiler like a maestro.
• DevOps: Streamline your workflow like a true boss.
• Performance: Make your code run faster than a getaway car.
• Namespaces: Organize like a pro and keep the chaos at bay.
• Datatypes: Master the essentials and flex your coding muscles.
• Interfaces: Speak multiple implementations fluently.

There might be more, there might be less - we'll see - gansta style!

Whether you're an OG yourself or just starting out, come prepared to learn, laugh, and leave with some serious coding swagger (pun intended).

Explore the frontier of Microsoft Copilot engineering that goes beyond the code to build trust in technology.

This session offers a deep dive into the engineering strategies and real-world best practices Microsoft takes to ensure Copilot Chat’s safety, security, trustworthiness, accuracy, and reliability. Delve into the complexities of maintaining a delicate balance between safety and accuracy. Learn the real examples of how Microsoft confront hallucinations and mitigate risks associated with generative AI.

Join us for an insightful session where we'll explore the exciting capabilities of Copilot Studio and Power Platform, tailored for developers!

Discover how you can use these tools to unlock new possibilities to build copilots, automate business processes, and enhance your development projects . With Copilot Studio, you can connect your own copilot to data using pre-built plugins ((including Business Central plugin) or custom plugins, design custom workflows, and manage your copilots in one central place.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how you can enable innovation with Business Central, Copilot Studio and Power Platform

Having all the dependencies for your development project "at arm's length" is no longer just a dream.

Moving from C/AL to AL was like the rescue of Robinson Crusoe from an isolated island. Now we live on the mainland with all other developers and we should use all the tools they have been using for years. One of them is NuGet packages.

How? We will show you!!!

This session will cover Microsoft internal setup for application development, build, validation and deployment and how we are migrating our application development team onto GitHub based on AL-Go. What are we migrating and how? What challenges do we foresee in moving from our highly custom setup to AL-Go and GitHub, and how are we planning on bridging the gap between these systems, including future features and capabilities needed in AL-Go to support our transition.

Join us for the session on building Excel reports. We have shipped new features that will enable you to build great looking Excel layouts. We will start with explaining how to structure and organize datasets. In the second part, we will move into the area of building layouts in Excel, where we will cover how to use Queries to get strong models, multilanguage support, refreshing the data when the when the Excel workbook opens, how to quickly open a template and other useful things that will save you time when you use excel to build customer facing layouts.

We want to show interesting design and event patterns based on the functionality that was added lately to inspire partner write a good code. We will cover how to request for the events, new patterns with orchestrator, configurable enums, isolated events and temporary tables with a focus on extensibility

In today's dynamic and rapidly evolving technological landscape, leading technical teams requires a unique set of skills and approaches. The "Elastic Leadership applied for development teams" workshop is designed to equip leaders and managers with the tools needed to navigate the complexities of the tech industry and guide their teams towards successful projects.

Workshop Highlights:

1. Understanding Elastic Leadership:
   Explore the concept of elastic leadership and its application in the context of technical teams.
   Learn how to alter leadership styles to different phases and team dynamics.
   
2. Adapting to Change and Uncertainty:
   Understand the importance of flexibility and adaptability in leadership.
   Explore methods for leading teams through periods of change and uncertainty in the tech industry. Learn to separate technical from organizational problems to address them appropriately and avoid wasting time and energy.
   
3. Sharing insights:
   Share and discuss best practices for addressing common challenges faced by technical leaders.

Who Should Attend:

• Development team leaders
• Engineering managers
• Project managers
• Anyone aspiring to lead development teams effectively (in any role)
  
  

Benefits:

• Gain insights into leadership approaches tailored to the unique challenges of development teams.
• Avoid team demotivation by leading with the wrong approach for the current phase the team is in.
• Enhance your ability to lead teams through technological transformations.
• Acquire practical tools and strategies for fostering innovation and collaboration.
  
  

The workshop lives from your participation. Bring your own cases where you need the intelligence of the group.

Join us for an engaging and interactive workshop that combines theory with hands-on activities, ensuring you leave with actionable insights to elevate your leadership skills in the ever-evolving world of technology.

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

You are probably already tired of listening to sessions about clean code by now. BUT HEAR US OUT!

Imagine a world where a user can choose to not validate fields. Imagine the chaos. Imagine the support tickets.
Now why should developers decide to not validate? Because developers know all the code? Maybe back in the days but certainly not today!

We would like to show you our idea on how to validate and explain why we think it's important.
We prepared some real life examples, broken code, infinite loops, and other coding goodies.

Join us in our session and let`s discuss some concepts and ideas along with some challenges regarding the rule to ALWAYS call validate on fields.

Explore the frontier of Microsoft Copilot engineering that goes beyond the code to build trust in technology.

This session offers a deep dive into the engineering strategies and real-world best practices Microsoft takes to ensure Copilot Chat’s safety, security, trustworthiness, accuracy, and reliability. Delve into the complexities of maintaining a delicate balance between safety and accuracy. Learn the real examples of how Microsoft confront hallucinations and mitigate risks associated with generative AI.

Come and learn some of the most effective best practices we follow in Microsoft to protect the data we are entrusted with. From coding guidelines to reviews our developers need to go through before shipping a feature.

Virtual Tables and Business Events represent new concepts in integrating Dynamics 365 Business Central with other applications, regardless of whether the application is a custom .Net application or an application built with Power Platform.

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Create and use Virtual Tables to access and manipulate Dynamics 365 Business Central data.
• Subscribe to and publish Business Events to trigger and handle workflows and processes across custom applications, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Deep dive into webhooks and demystify Business Events to handle specific scenarios and requirements.
• Track and monitor telemetry data to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues using Application Insights

Ensuring a pleasant experience for end-users, even in error situations, and empowering them to resolve their own issues is crucial. In recent releases we have developed several features to achieve this. In this presentation, we will delve into the enhancements for more user-friendly and efficient error handling in AL, including collectible errors, adding navigation to errors etc. Attendees will gain insights into how to optimize error resolution, improve user satisfaction, and streamline their support processes

What has changed in the AL Language Extension and other tools.

How can I split my monolithic application into smaller, maintainable modular applications? Join us in this session where we will present our new obsoletion feature which allows for tables and fields to be moved between applications. While it is limited to internal applications, we will present how and where you might be able to use it in the future.

This session explores the new namespaces in AL. We'll discuss our namespace choices, provide guidance on using namespaces and talk about the tooling around these, as well as the challenges and opportunities they bring.

Ensuring a pleasant experience for end-users, even in error situations, and empowering them to resolve their own issues is crucial. In recent releases we have developed several features to achieve this. In this presentation, we will delve into the enhancements for more user-friendly and efficient error handling in AL, including collectible errors, adding navigation to errors etc. Attendees will gain insights into how to optimize error resolution, improve user satisfaction, and streamline their support processes

How can I split my monolithic application into smaller, maintainable modular applications? Join us in this session where we will present our new obsoletion feature which allows for tables and fields to be moved between applications. While it is limited to internal applications, we will present how and where you might be able to use it in the future.

Let's take a deep dive into the security of our Microsoft 365 accounts, which provide access to data for tens and maybe hundreds of Business Central customers every day. In this session, I'll show you how a small mistake can have disastrous implications. We'll perform a simulation of a phishing attack, stealing the user's password and session cookies, enabling a 2-factor authentication bypass. After that, we'll explore actions you can take, such as using strong authentication methods, and what your IT administrator can do with Conditional Access (GA) policies, Granular Delegated Admin Privileges (GDAP) and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra.

If you want to maximize the throughput of your Business Central online environments, then this session is for you.

The Business Central online service scales automatically to accommodate the load you throw at it, and we will explain how it does that.

Does this mean that you can never have problems with performance in BC online? Of course not. The responsibility for getting high throughput is shared between Microsoft and partners, and we will cover design and configuration patterns for achieving high throughput as well as ways to troubleshoot when performance problems do appear.

Having all the dependencies for your development project "at arm's length" is no longer just a dream.

Moving from C/AL to AL was like the rescue of Robinson Crusoe from an isolated island. Now we live on the mainland with all other developers and we should use all the tools they have been using for years. One of them is NuGet packages.

How? We will show you!!!

In this session, we’ll explore how to streamline operations and boost efficiency by leveraging the Business Central Admin Center APIs. We’ll dive into advanced scenarios, demonstrating how to set up, create, transfer, update environments, and install apps—through APIs and automation.

There are still so many Upgrades from NAV to Business Central ongoing and I'm still seeing people struggling with old interfaces. In many projects it is not possible to update all other legacy systems beside Business Central to modern software.

Since we have the "Universal Code Initiative" there are more and more update things which are not possible directly in BC.
Some Examples:

• File Access
• Local Hardware Access
• SQL Access
• (and many more)
  
  

But there is always an easy way to handle such problems. In this workshop I will show you some ways to handle.

Prerequisites:

• Laptop

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 12 June is sold out!

There are still so many Upgrades from NAV to Business Central ongoing and I'm still seeing people struggling with old interfaces. In many projects it is not possible to update all other legacy systems beside Business Central to modern software.

Since we have the "Universal Code Initiative" there are more and more update things which are not possible directly in BC.
Some Examples:

• File Access
• Local Hardware Access
• SQL Access
• (and many more)

But there is always an easy way to handle such problems. In my demo I will show you some ways to handle

Join us for the session on building Excel reports. We have shipped new features that will enable you to build great looking Excel layouts. We will start with explaining how to structure and organize datasets. In the second part, we will move into the area of building layouts in Excel, where we will cover how to use Queries to get strong models, multilanguage support, refreshing the data when the when the Excel workbook opens, how to quickly open a template and other useful things that will save you time when you use excel to build customer facing layouts.

Are you inspired by the Copilot demonstrations from the Keynote? Join us in this practical session to discover how you can bring similar AI-powered functionalities to your own Business Central extensions. This session is tailor-made for those eager to dive into the technical aspects of AI implementation.

What You'll Learn:

• Copilot UI Elements: Discover how to add unique Copilot UI features to improve interaction in your extensions.
• AI Integration: Learn the basics of integrating AI with Business Central, from connecting your code with Azure OpenAI Service to using AI features like function calling.
• Advanced AI Techniques: Dive into AI prompt techniques, including JSON handling, and explore RAG techniques for enhanced data retrieval.

Session Outcome:

You will leave with a solid understanding of AI integration techniques, ready to innovate and implement your own AI-driven projects in Business Central. Whether you're a developer or a tech enthusiast, this session will provide you with the essential knowledge and inspiration needed to start your journey into AI-enhanced applications.

The move from C/AL to AL brought many new development paradigms to our industry. Source Control, Extensions, Cloud-first approach, just to name a few.

One of them is also the Code Review which is a huge addition to code quality. The change happened a few years ago and partners adopted many different approaches to Code Reviews. But Code Reviews aren’t new, many mature industries have been using them for decades, and now AI is supposed to help with that as well.

I believe now is a good time to stop for a moment, review our code review processes, and talk about best practices. How to ensure code reviews are not overwhelming? What are communication best practices, so the comments are well received? How to prevent “rubber stamping” pull requests? What tools can make them more manageable? How can the GitHub Copilot help with all of that?

Join the session to see how we can take the effectiveness of code reviews to another level.

This session will introduce you to Microsoft's Copilot testing toolkit, a suite designed to help AL developers navigate the evolving landscape of large language models (LLMs). Discover strategies for writing robust tests that validate the safety and accuracy of your Copilot features, ensuring your applications meet the highest standards of quality.

Historically BC code was never written with testability in mind. When coding tests against this code, it leaves us with ample option than setting up a lot of data before the action under test can be exercised.

Ideally you probably would like to refactor your code to comply with SOLID principles and make your automated test effort overall much simpler. But often our vast code heritage and new projects ahead do not allow us to get that prioritized and leaves us with non-SOLID code to write test automation against.

In this workshop you will learn about, and apply, various ways to efficiently set up data when creating automated tests for code that does not comply with SOLID principles.

Prerequisites:

• Laptop

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 12 June is sold out!

If you want to maximize the throughput of your Business Central online environments, then this session is for you.

The Business Central online service scales automatically to accommodate the load you throw at it, and we will explain how it does that.

Does this mean that you can never have problems with performance in BC online? Of course not. The responsibility for getting high throughput is shared between Microsoft and partners, and we will cover design and configuration patterns for achieving high throughput as well as ways to troubleshoot when performance problems do appear.

This session offers a deep dive into how to leverage some of the newer authorization concepts in BC online: Security groups, service to service auth (S2S), new Dynamics 365 Business Central Administrator role, and more. How do they work, when to use them, and how to troubleshoot them?

During this workshop, we'll dive deeper in Telemetry and Performance. In short, I'll introduce you in both:

• Telemetry in Business Central (setup, KQL, ..)
• BCPT (Business Central Performance Toolkit) (including writing our own performance tests)

But this is not just going to be an introduction - don't worry. We'll put both to use by combining them: we'll use our own codeunits to test performance for certain functionalities - analyze it with our own KQL queries, get insights in PowerBI and follow up the performance of our software over time with PowerBI Metrics.

It's going to be a hands-on workshop, so you will need to prepare a few things:

Prerequisites:

• Laptop
• Online BC Sandbox (demo-environment is fine)
• Access to Azure Portal (same tenant - you need to be able to create and use App Insights)
• PowerBI (you can use the trial license if necessary)

Workshop date: Tue 11 or Wed 12 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 12 June is sold out!

If you're interested in making your job much more efficient .. this is your session!

I will cover following key points:

• Getting started with Telemetry. You'll see how easy it is to set up, and use the basics of it.
• Developer's best friend: find out why telemetry is invaluable for developers, making their work more efficient. Sometimes, it's simply good practice to "search for problems" in stead of let problems come to you. Telemetry can do that for you!
• Telemetry for Product Excellence. Quite aligned with the previous point - let's see how we can use telemetry to improve the product, gain insights and make data-driven decisions.
• Unlock Telemetry's potential with Pro Tips: I'll talk about some options for making the most of telemetry data. With tips and tricks on how to focus on the points you really want to focus to. I'll make KQL easy for you (well, I'll try 🤪)

You'll leave this session with an ability to never run out of work again (and I mean that in the most positive way). An ability to a never-ending improvement to your product, to make it the most shining gem it can be.

Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and dive into the coding trenches with true OGs? This session is FOR OGs, by OGs. And if you don't know what that stands for: "Original Gangsters." No, not dinosaurs, because we are not extinct, are we? 😉

This session is all about embracing the oh-so-many changes. We'll explore some of the topics that we think are very important to cover. Obviously not as a deep, deep dive session, but more like a touch of joy on what has changed and what to look forward to, like:

• Automated Testing: Because real OGs never let bugs cramp their style.
• Breaking Changes: Navigate the evolution without losing your cool.
• CodeCops: Keep your code in line and avoid getting busted by bad practices.
• Looking into Source: Peek under the hood and understand the magic.
• Compiler Directives: Direct the compiler like a maestro.
• DevOps: Streamline your workflow like a true boss.
• Performance: Make your code run faster than a getaway car.
• Namespaces: Organize like a pro and keep the chaos at bay.
• Datatypes: Master the essentials and flex your coding muscles.
• Interfaces: Speak multiple implementations fluently.

There might be more, there might be less - we'll see - gansta style!

Whether you're an OG yourself or just starting out, come prepared to learn, laugh, and leave with some serious coding swagger (pun intended).

This session will introduce Tri-State locking: a more optimistic reading schematic for AL.

Exploring how the runtime determines what locks should be taken when interacting with the database, what differences Tri-State versus the previous locking behaviour, introduce SQL locking schematics, and finally update the recommendation to AL developers.

This session explores the new namespaces in AL. We'll discuss our namespace choices, provide guidance on using namespaces and talk about the tooling around these, as well as the challenges and opportunities they bring.