Dynamics Business Central / NAV Developer Digest - Vol. 548

ArcherPoint by Cherry Bekaert’s Developer Digest focuses on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV development. With all the attention on AI, agents, and MCP in Business Central, this week’s Dev Digest features a roundup of some of the stellar blogs on the subject.

The Dynamics 365 Business Central community, consisting of developers, project managers, and consultants, collaborates across various platforms to share valuable insights. At ArcherPoint, we greatly value their dedication and expertise. To ensure widespread access to this technical knowledge, we created Developer Digest.

Building AI agents in Business Central

Mohana Yadav continues his blog series on understanding AI agents and MCP in Business Central with instructions on building a Business Central MCP proxy, connecting it to Claude Desktop, and testing the MCP connection using real-world questions.

Now, rather than spending 15-20 minutes navigating to the right page, applying the necessary filters, exporting to Excel, and…you get the point…, you can type a single prompt: “I want to see budget vs. actual for all Projects with a nice graphic view”, and get the answer in seconds.

The blog series also includes best practices for security, working with agents, and maintenance. And remember: The more specific your prompt, the more targeted the output.

Read Mohana’s 4-part blog series:

Blog 1: Understanding AI Agents and MCP

Blog 2: The Business Central MCP Server

Blog 3: Building BcMCPProxy.exe and Connecting to Claude Desktop

Blog 4: Testing Scenarios and Best Practices

Getting a handle on Business Central agents

Bert Verbeek’s blog series on agents in Business Central covers the topic from soup to nuts. In his first blog, he covers the architecture behind the agents. In his second blog, he stresses the importance of creating effective prompts to achieve the results you’re looking for. In his third blog, he addresses the guardrails needed to control the agent. As he puts it, “Agents operate as a dedicated ‘user’ in Business Central, running tasks in separate sessions. This means they must be treated like any other user from a security perspective.”

Read his 3-part series:

Agents in Business Central – part 1 – the architecture

Agents in Business Central – part 2 – theprompt

Agents in Business Central – part 3 – limiting the agent

BCMCPProxy: New and improved

Stefano Demiliani contributes to the discussion by enhancing BCMCPProxy, including cross-platform authentication, improvements to the core architecture, and updates to use .NET 10.0. The result is better security and a significant performance improvement.

Check out his blog, Dynamics 365 Business Central: BCMCPProxy vNext.

How AL developers can survive the impact of AI

With all this talk of agents and AI, it might be a good time to step back and assess the role of AL developers as AI takes over significant parts of their jobs.

Erik Hougaard addresses this problem in his video titled How to survive as an AL developer in an AI world with Business Central.

Using a chess program as his starting point, Erik reminds us that AL developers must “change with the world.” Even with AI tools that write code for you, you are still building software. It’s still your code, you are responsible for what it does, and so you still have to understand what’s happening.

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