The document summarizes the key enhancements and new features in the April 2019 release of Dynamics 365 Business Central. Some highlights include: - Improved performance, security, personalization, and admin capabilities. - New features like list views, quick entry, and page inspection from ideas submitted on Microsoft's platform. - Enhancements for end users, partners, developers including improved debugging tools and rapid application development. - Integration with Dynamics 365 for Sales and new intelligent cloud insights. - Notification that the fall 2019 release will drop support for the Windows client and only support modern clients, moving code fully to AL.

1. RobertoStefanetti,
MVP BusinessApplications(NAV&BC)
@robstefane

2. AGENDA
https://robertostefanettinavblog.com/2019/04/05/business-central-april19-release-best-topics/
https://robertostefanettinavblog.com/2019/01/21/overview-of-dynamics-365-business-central-april-19-release/

3. Dynamics 365 Business Central April Release

4. Business Central New Roadmap - April’19
https://dynamics.microsoft.com/it-it/business-central/overview/

5. Business Central New Roadmap - Highlights
Highlights for April’19 Release
 Enhancements for End Users, Partners, Sales and Customers, Developers.. for ALL BC people!

6. Business Central April’19 – Links From Microsoft
Source links about April’19 Release From Microsoft
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/april19/dynamics365-business-
central/planned-features
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/april19/dynamics365-business-
central/application-enhancements

7. Business Central April’19 – A lot of features!
BEST TOPICS for April release (and from minor updates after April)
- Powerful new features for business, partner, developers, sales, customers and end-users
- Security, Stability, Performance, reliability, and scalability enhancements
- Improved data entry, data filtering, data scrolling, searching
- Improved personalization (In Client Designer)
- Accessibility, Data and AI
- Technical enhancements (Last error, Force Sync, Context sensitive Help, better APIs 3.0)
- Improved Business Central Admin (Upgrades, multiple sandboxes, better monitoring
- Improved intelligent cloud
- Improved Runtime Packages (source and binary)
- Improved development, RAD (Rapid Application Development)
- Improved Debugger (debugger can show SQL statements)
- New shortcuts
.. And Two great features from Microsoft Idea “Save Views” and “Page Inspection”

8. Business Central April’19 – Updated AspectLayout

9. Business Central April’19 – App Lifecycle

10. Business Central April’19 – More Sandboxes

11. Business Central April’19 – Page Inspection

12. Business Central April’19 – Improved Search

13. Business Central April’19 – List Views
List Views (will be available in a minor release after April’19)
 Great feature directly from Microsoft Ideas, now you can save what you want…

14. Business Central April’19 – Quick Entry
Quick Entry

15. Business Central April’19 – Scrolling & Load Time
Improved Scrolling ..scrolling now works better.. and load time is faster

16. Business Central April’19 – Personalization En.
Personalization Enhancements …more and more power in personalizations
In-Client Designer Dependency Pruning
When you were using the in-client designer in the previous release, it created dependencies for all extensions in
the database. This didn’t make sense, and caused a lot of problems going forward (where you had to remove the
unnecessary dependencies). It was the exact reason why I hated the tool.

17. Business Central April’19 – For Sales Integration
Business Central and Dynamics 365 for Sales (full integration)
Great integration with Dynamics 365 For Sales

18. Business Central April’19 – New Functional Features
A lot of New Functional Features
Application enhancements
Just to list a few list:
- Longer names and descriptions
- Bulk import item pictures (I wonder if they finally use the mediaset as a real set now…)
- Default ship-to addresses
- Background jobs with data formula
….
Microsoft Link
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/april19/dynamics365-business-
central/application-enhancements

19. Dynamics 365 Business Central April Release

20. Business Central April’19 – Enhanc. for Developers
Enhancements for Developers
A lot of improvements in Visual Studio Code, Force Sync, Outline view, multiple objects ID ranges, Actions and code
actions; List Views... also by Code! Quick Entry

21. Business Central April’19 – Improved Telemetry

22. Business Central April’19 – Improved Security and
Performance

23. Business Central April’19 – Improved Admin Central
Business Central Admin Center
When you are a CSP and sell SaaS implementation of Business Central, you probably know about the Business Central
Admin Center. It would be weird if you would not know about it, because this is where you maintain, handle, set up, …
your customers.
Monitoring and notifications – you can subscribe to receive notification of more events happening in your customers’
environments.

24. Business Central April’19 – Intelligent Cloud
Intelligent Cloud Insights for Dynamics on-premises customers
> Intelligent Cloud improved

25. Business Central April’19 – APIs 3.0
APIs 3.0 (and standard Web APIs)

26. Business Central April’19 – RAD
RAD (Rapid Application Development)
RAD – or Rapid Application Development lets you build and deploy only a part (the changed part) to speed up
development.
Now you know where the “rad.json” comes from ;-)
My tests on RAD
https://robertostefanettinavblog.com/2019/04/10/testing-al-rad-rapid-application-development/

27. Business Central April’19 – More Performance!
More Performance! RUNS FASTER !!

28. Business Central April’19 – SQL Server in Debugger
SQL Server Statements in Debugger (AL)

29. Business Central April’19 – Take Away!
Take Away!
..and Take Away from Directions Asia 2019 …“SAY GOODBAY TO C/AL AND WINDOWS CLIENT”
The last release with C/AL and Windows Client
https://robertostefanettinavblog.com/2019/04/01/goodbay-to-c-side-and-windows-client/

30. Business Central April’19 – New Shortcuts!
New Shortcuts!
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/keyboard-shortcuts

31. Dynamics 365 Business Central Fall Release

32. Business Central April’19 – Fall Release’19
About Business Central on-premises next release (Fall 2019)
- Only Modern Clients will be available (Web, Tablet & Phone clients, no more Windows Client)
- No more C/AL Objects, only AL Files for Objects
- Only AL files with a Base APP Extension Installed (ALL AL Objects can be modified)

33. RobertoStefanetti,
MVP BusinessApplications(NAV&BC)
@robstefane