Learning Business Central
Notes, tutorials and real-world examples on Business Central development — AL, DevOps, and lately, agentic development with GitHub Copilot. Written by Roberto Corella, Microsoft MVP & MCT.
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Deploy Your PTEs with the Admin Center API Before Business Central v30
Uploading extensions from the Extension Management page is going away in version 30 (2027 release wave 1). Here's how to deploy from the Admin Center instead, and how to automate it with the Admin Center API.
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How to Use Your GitHub Copilot Skills, Prompts and Instructions Across Every VS Code Project
How to centralize your GitHub Copilot instructions, prompts and skills in a single user-level folder so they travel with you across every VS Code project, instead of living inside one repository.
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Isolated Storage in Business Central: The Right Way to Keep Your Secrets Safe
How Isolated Storage lets you keep API keys, client secrets and passwords out of reach of the database, the debugger and third-party extensions, with a practical Set/Get/Contains/Delete walkthrough.
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BC Quality: Auditing Your Business Central Code (Human-Written or Agent-Written)
Fifth entry in the agentic AL development series — how Microsoft's BC Quality knowledge base lets you objectively audit AL code, whether written by an agent or by a human, with a reviewer agent and a readable HTML report.
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Agentic Development in Business Central: Turning Prompts into Persistent Agents
Fourth entry in the agentic AL development series — how instructions, skills and prompts come together into a persistent agent role, with a working requirements-consultant example and an automatic handoff to the architect.
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Agentic Development in Business Central: Using Prompts to Automate Repetitive Tasks
New entry in the agentic AL development series — how to create .prompt.md files to automate repetitive tasks and standardize workflows in your coding agent.
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Agentic Development in Business Central: Using Skills to Teach Your Coding Agent
Second entry in the series on agentic AL development — how skills differ from instructions, and a hands-on example turning generic errors into informative ErrorInfo messages.
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Agentic Development in Business Central: Using Instructions to Guide Your Coding Agent
First entry in a series on agentic AL development — how a plain-text instructions file changes what your coding agent generates, from naming conventions to language rules.