Monthly Archives: January 2021

Publishing apps to a Business Central Online Environment

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There are 2 kinds of apps: AppSource Apps and Per Tenant Extensions (PTEs). These apps can be installed in two kinds of environments: Sandbox and Production. In Production, AppSource Apps are installed in the global scope and Per Tenant Extensions are installed in the Tenant Scope. In Sandbox environments you can also install apps to the development scope (like what VS Code does).

This blog post will describe how you can use BcContainerHelper 2.0.2 to install apps in any of those combinations.

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BcAuthContext

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The latest version of BcContainerHelper (BcContainerHelper version 2.0.1 | Freddys blog) comes with a new concept called a BcAuthContext. A BcAuthContext is really just a hashtable with authentication information for a Business Central online tenant.

This blog post describes the concept and how to obtain and refresh a BcAuthContext. Subsequent blog posts will describe how to use them.

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How to use Run-AlValidation

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When releasing the first version of Run-AlValidation in BcContainerHelper, i did a quick blog post about the function here. This blog post serves to explain some common scenarios of how to run the function. The blog post will also explain the parameters of Run-AlValidation a bit more in depth, for people to have a good chance of using the function before submitting for AppSource Validation.

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