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Continue reading →: How to Make a Report Layout Obsolete in Business Central (Wave 1 2025)
With the release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 1 2025, it continues to refine the AL development experience — and one of the key improvements is the ability to obsolete report layouts cleanly and officially. If you’re managing a growing list of custom layouts or updating reports across…
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Continue reading →: Convert Simple Type Values to Text Using the New ToText Method in Business Central 2025 Wave 1
With the release of Business Central 2025 Wave 1, Business Central continues to simplify AL development by introducing intuitive and developer-friendly features. One such small yet powerful enhancement is the ToText method — designed to streamline how simple type values are converted to text. In previous versions, we developers often…
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Continue reading →: Changing the CardPageId in a Page Extension – Business Central Wave 1 2025
With the release of Business Central 2025 Wave 1, Business central continues to refine and empower AL developers with more flexibility when extending standard functionality. One of the subtle but significant features is the ability to change the CardPageId in a PageExtension, giving developers greater control over navigation behavior in…
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Continue reading →: FieldRef.IsOptimizedForTextSearch() Method in Business Central 2025 Wave 1
With the release of Business Central 2025 Wave 1, Microsoft continues to empower developers with more control and insights into the performance and behavior of their extensions. Among the new additions is the method FieldRef.IsOptimizedForTextSearch(), designed to help developers make more performance-conscious decisions when implementing search functionalities. 💡 What is…
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Continue reading →: AutoFormatExpression Property in Business Central – Wave 1 2025
With the release of Business Central 2025 Wave 1, Microsoft continues enhancing the AL language to make development cleaner, more flexible, and maintainable. One of the updates includes improvements around the AutoFormatExpression property — a property that may seem minor but plays a crucial role in controlling how data is…
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Continue reading →: Report.TargetFormat() Method in Business Central 2025 Wave 1
With the release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1, Microsoft has continued to improve the AL language and reporting capabilities. One notable addition for developers working with reports is the new Report.TargetFormat() method. This small yet powerful enhancement gives developers more control and visibility over how reports…
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Continue reading →: Generate launch.json from the Web Client in Business Central – Wave 1 2025
With the 2025 Wave 1 release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, developers get a significant productivity boost: the ability to generate a launch.json file directly from the Web Client! 🎉 This is a feature that eliminates the need to manually configure environment settings in Visual Studio Code (VS Code),…
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Continue reading →: Business Central 2025 Wave 1 (BC26): Check Total Purchase Amounts on Documents
The Business Central 2025 Wave 1 (BC26) release introduces a valuable feature aimed at enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of accounts payable processes: “Check Doc. Total Amounts”. While seemingly simple from a user perspective, but powerful addition that helps users validate purchase documents before posting. At its heart, “Check Doc.…
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Continue reading →: Business Central 2025 Wave 1 (BC26) – SetAutoCalcFields Method on RecordRef
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 (version 26) introduces several enhancements to developer productivity and platform capabilities. One of the notable changes for AL developers is the new SetAutoCalcFields method added to the RecordRef data type. This method brings the power of calculated flow fields to the RecordRef…
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Continue reading →: File.ViewFromStream in AL: Display Text Directly from Stream
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 continues to improve its developer experience with handy new features. One of the exciting additions in this release is the File.ViewFromStream method — a simple yet powerful function that enhances how developers interact with files stored in memory. In the current versions…