AppSource
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Automatic AppSource Submission of Business Central apps
A request from many partners have been to be able to automatically submit apps to AppSource Validation from their DevOps setup. The Ingestion API for Partner Center supports all offer types in AppSource and can be used to submit updates to Business Central apps to AppSource. Unfortunately, the API comes with very little documentation and the sparse documentation doesn’t contain any information about Business Central. If you however want to investigate things by yourself, the primary docs are: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/marketplace/azure-app-apis –...
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Publishing apps to a Business Central Online Environment
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...
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Run-AlValidation and Run-AlCops
On December 1st, I co-hosted a webinar about how people can make sure that their app passes AppSource Validation. Until now, I have always been preaching that people should run CI/CD and include AppSourceCop validation in their CI/CD pipeline, which is supported in the Run-AlPipeline function. But…, as I prepared for the session, it became evident that it would be really helpful to have a function, which basically does exactly the same as our validation pipeline. Run-AlValidation is the closest...
