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 10th of the new functionality in the Development section is select extensions to open in Visual Studio Code from the web client.
Several releases ago, Microsoft introduced the powerful ability to open Visual Studio Code from within the web client, that is, a specific environment, to investigate or debug code. Microsoft now add the ability to proactively select the extensions to include in the project when opening Visual Studio Code. If the user has permissions to access source, that code will be available in the opened Visual Studio Code. Otherwise, it will be symbols that can be used for investigating functionality in AL Explorer or to code against.
Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability: Apr 2025
Feature Details
On the Extension Management page there’s now a Develop in VS Code action group with a number of new possibilities for developers. One of these is the Download in VS Code action that allows the user to select one or more extensions to open in Visual Studio Code.
In the opened Visual Studio Code project, there’s always access to symbols for those extensions, whereas access to source depends on IP protection settings for the involved extensions and user permissions.
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