Day: April 8, 2025

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 17th of the new functionality in the Development section is convert simple type values to text using new ToText method.

To easily convert the value of simple types to text, you can now use the ToText method on the type—for example, on a Label type.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

Microsoft have added the ToText method to simple types (BigInteger, Boolean, Byte, Date, DateTime, Decimal, Duration, Guid, Integer, Label, Time, Version) for easy conversion to text.

For advanced formatting options, you should continue to use FORMAT.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 16th of the new functionality in the Development section is use new IncStr parameter to change integers by more than 1 in string variables.

For some time you’ve been able to increase a positive number or decrease a negative number inside a string variable by 1 using the IncStr method on Text types. This is useful when handling iterations, for example, involving number series. If you needed to make a change of more than 1, however, you had to write extensive custom logic. To help in these scenarios, the IncStr method now supports a new optional increments parameter to change more than 1.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

A new overload of the IncStr method is added to support an arbitrary increase or decrease of a number in a string variable. This allows for incrementing number series or other similar series by more than one position in one go.

When decreasing a positive number, use a try function to catch cases where the string can’t be decreased further. Format-wise, when decreasing, leading zeros will be added as applicable.

The example shows incrementing the integer 99 in the AText string variable to 109 in a single call, by using the new IncStr method overload with an increment parameter of 10.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 15th of the new functionality in the Development section is self-service App Key Vault onboarding for AppSource apps.

AppSource apps for Business Central can read secrets from Azure Key Vault owned by the publishing partner. However, in order for this feature to be available to a partner’s AppSource app, they have had to go through a manual process and reach out to us, which could lead to waiting times—and Azure Key Vault availability required a new version of the app after registration. To streamline the process, Microsoft have now made onboarding to Azure Key Vault part of the AppSource submission itself, which also implies that the app can immediately use its Azure Key Vault.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

Partners who want to register a key vault for their app no longer need to send an email to us and wait until Microsoft register their Entra Tenant Id with their app.

Instead they must:

• Grant read permission to Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Business Central ISV Key Vault Reader app.
• Create a special secret in their respective key vault named AllowedBusinessCentralAppIds. This secret should contain the appIds of every app that will have access to the given key vault. For multiple apps, separate by a comma ‘,’.

Follow this path to reduce the registration waiting time and make registration faster and easier.

Note that AppSource apps that already have registered their Entra Tenant Id should also introduce the special secret before submitting higher versions of their apps. The absence of this reserved AllowedBusinessCentralAppIds secret will likely result in a submission failure in the future.