Stop Typing and Start Talking 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".

Stop Typing and Start Talking

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…

Building Business Central Excel Reports with Copilot 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.

Building Business Central reports in Excel doesn’t have to be painful anymore.
In my latest blog, I walk through how #Excel & #Copilot fundamentally change the reporting experience for #BusinessCentral users, turning Excel into an active reporting assistant, not just a spreadsheet. #msdyn365bc

#HumpDayHacks: RecreateSalesLines 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…

Hey #BusinessCentral Developers. Have you ever experienced your custom Sales Line field data just...disappear? It has something to do with the Sales Header recreating Sales Lines.

You can read more about it in my latest #HumpDayHacks blog post: bcdevnotebook.com/2026/02/25/h...
#msdyn365bc

Managing agent tasks programmatically (preview) - Business Central Learn how to create and manage agent tasks, work with agent sessions, and handle cross-agent operations in Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Yes - it's for building out your own Agents.

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GitHub Copilot Playbook: Reusable Prompts 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…

New Blog Post: GitHub Copilot Reusable Prompts

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Scaffold out table extensions, page extensions, field definitions and more consistently and effortlessly within your code standards!

#GitHubCopilot #msdyn365bc

20260126 - Excel Report Layouts: From Basics to Refreshable, Real-Time Reporting YouTube video by Areopa webinars

🎥 New webinar recording: Excel Report Layouts in Business Central

Create custom reports without writing a single line of code. Tonya shows you the complete workflow—from data contracts to refreshable reports with Power Query.

Real-time analytics using Excel features ⚡

👉 youtu.be/1ft4o9lQzsU

GitHub Copilot Playbook: Chat Modes 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…

Getting mixed results from GitHub Copilot Chat?
It might not be your prompt — it might be the chat mode.

New Blog Post
GitHub Copilot Playbook: Chat Modes ✨
Dive into Autocomplete, Ask, Edit, Plan & Agent modes.

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#GitHubCopilot #Agent #msdyn365bc #BusinessCentral

#HumpDayHacks: Event Subscriptions Page in BC 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...

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... #msdyn365bc #BusinessCentral

GitHub Copilot Playbook: Getting Started 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…

🚀 New Blog Post: GitHub Copilot Playbook – Getting Started

AI is transforming how we develop software and GitHub Copilot is leading the charge.
Check out the first post of a new series bcdevnotebook.com/2025/11/11/g...

#GitHubCopilot #BusinessCentral #msdyn365bc #AI

#HumpDayHacks – Avoiding Validation Chaos 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, …

Today's #HumpDayHacks is Avoiding Validation Chaos, where I dive into a deceptively simple but critical detail: field order.

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#BusinessCentral #ALDevelopment #msdyn365bc

Query Methods for Business Central AL Development 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…

Query Methods for Business Central AL Development

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…

Live Share – VSCode Pair Programming 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…

👥 Pair Programming Just Got a Whole Lot Easier 🚀
If you've ever struggled to collaborate effectively in a remote dev environment, you're not alone. But there's a tool that can change the game: Live Share in @vscode.dev
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#VSCode #DevTools #msdyn365bc #MVPBuzz #RemoteWork

Code completions with GitHub Copilot in VS Code Enhance your coding with AI-powered code completions from GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code.

There is also the visual blue arrow ➡️ showing you the way to your next edit. You can also then use your mouse to Accept or Reject the change.

This is a game-changer for refactoring and maintaining code consistency!
Official release notes here: code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...

GitHub Copilot just got even smarter! The new Next Edit Suggestions feature doesn't just autocomplete your code - it predicts where you'll need to make edits next across your codebase. ✨
Hit Tab to navigate between suggestions, then Tab again to accept.

Scheduled Performance Profiler in Business Central 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 …

New Blog Post Alert: Scheduled Performance Profiler in #BusinessCentral #msdyn365bc
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Let's play a game. Best #autocorrect of your name. I'll go first.
Tonya Broccoli Medley. 🥦
Tonya Broccoli Mesquite is a close second. 🍖
#autocorrectfail

Developing Multilingual Reports for Business Central 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 …

Are you developing reports for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central? 🌐 Check out my latest blog post on Developing Multilingual Reports for Business Central! 📝

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#msdyn365bc #BusinessCentral

Learning from the community, we can elevate our code quality. Love to see some of these old gems like SelectionFilterManagement being resurfaced. #msdyn365bc

Yaaassssss!!! I love it!!!!

Oooo, I like that question even better!
#thoughtsduringacodereview

Hello #msdyn365bc developer community.

Let's try something new. #BCCodeReview 🤓

if Item.Get(SomeOtherTable."Item No.") then ;

What happens when it doesn't find the item? it keeps going, even if the item doesn't exist.

Would you change it to just
Item.Get(SomeOtherTable."Item No.");

#bcalhelp

I always have more information to share than time alloted. Its tough to decide what makes the cut!

While the report itself will still be generated with the Report Caption, we now have more insights into the layout file 🎉

Creating an Excel layout report - Business Central Learn how to create a report using an Excel layout.

👀 I spy some new ReportRequestValues in Excel Report Layouts for #BusinessCentral #msdyn365bc
💫 Coming in BC26 (2025 wave 1) we have the following new metadata from the report that created the document:
- Layout Name
- Layout Caption
- Layout Id
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While the report itself will still be generated with the Report Caption, we now have more insights into the layout file 🎉

It's no joke, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 release wave 1 is live! 🥳 Time to get up to speed on the latest capabilities with the BC Launch Event videos at aka.ms/BCYouTube

#msdyn365bc #businesscentral

Thank you @betsyweber.bsky.social for all you do to support the MVP program! Rogan approves of our new office mate 😸 #MVPBuzz

I've been in Washington for a week, visiting family and attending #MVPSummit. Loving on my nephews because fur babies are family too! Say hi to Zeus, Nimbus and Yeti 😻

Quote of the day: if your product is easier to replace than to subscribe to, it won't last.

He wants to know if you consulted with Copilot.