This session gives you a guided tour of the latest improvements to the AL language and developer tools in Business Central. We’ll walk through the most impactful language additions, tooling enhancements, and platform changes introduced in the latest release wave, with concrete examples of how they improve productivity, code quality, and maintainability. Expect live code, real scenarios, and insights straight from the team building AL, with a focus on what you should start using today and how to adopt new capabilities safely in existing solutions.
This session will also dive into how developers can now extend and customize field mappings between Business Central and Dataverse entities without writing code.
Speaker(s)
As a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, I lead and develop innovative solutions for Dynamics 365 Business Central, the cloud-based ERP system that helps small and medium-sized businesses grow and optimize their operations. My mission is to deliver high-quality products that meet the needs and expectations of our customers and partners, and to foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and excellence among my team.
I am passionate about the Business Central AL language, the modern development processes, the extensions and runtime representation, and the Azure platform that enable us to create and deploy scalable, secure, and reliable applications. I also leverage the power of telemetry, data-driven decisions, and integration with other Microsoft products and services to enhance the user experience and the business value of our solutions. I am always looking for new ways to improve our products, processes, and practices, and to share my knowledge and insights with the Business Central community.
Esben joined Microsoft in 2003 as a Senior Software Development Engineer working on Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) and later Fenway. He moved to the Dynamics NAV team in 2006.
Before joining Microsoft Esben had his own software company that developed project/time management software for Time/system International and later a combined POS and online reservation system for bowling centers.
Today Esben is a Principal Architect on the Dynamics NAV team.
Peter has been with Microsoft since the acquisition of Navision in 2002, and has worked as a program manager in a number of areas and product lines throughout this time. He is currently a program manager on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central developer tools team, responsible for the AL language, Visual Studio Code tooling, AppSource and extensions.