irections emea 2024 vienna
6-8 November 2024

Directions EMEA 2024

Directions EMEA is the "Go To" place where Dynamics partners share the future. It's the preferred global community for collaborating and learning from Microsoft, MVPs, ISVs, VARs and their peers. The focus is on helping the SMB market unlock its full potential in technical, business development and strategy with ERP, CRM, and Cloud solutions, including the Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and Azure.

08-11-2024

Microsoft presents: Maximizing Partner Productivity with Essential Business Central Tools

13:15 - 15:00 Hall C (677) Back to event schedule

In this session, we cover key tools in Business Central that enhance productivity and streamline troubleshooting. We'll explore the Performance Toolkit and Profiler for optimizing system performance, GitHub Copilot for AI-powered code assistance, and Open in VS Code for seamless development. Additionally, we'll dive into the Page Inspector for diagnosing user interface issues, and Connectivity tools for ensuring efficient integration with external systems. Together, these tools offer a comprehensive approach to improving both development and system functionality.

Speakers:

Blanca Robledo

Software Engineer II - Business Central Developer Tools

Blanca is a Software Engineer at Microsoft on the Developer Tools team of Dynamics 365 Business Central. She focusses on the continuous improvement of the development experience within Visual Studio Code to empower developers to code, explore, and troubleshoot their AL code with greater ease and efficiency.

Peter Borring

Program Manager, Microsoft

Peter has been with Microsoft since the acquisition of Navision in 2002, and has worked as a program manager in a number of areas and product lines throughout this time. He is currently a program manager on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central developer tools team, responsible for the AL language, Visual Studio Code tooling, developer and test tools for Copilot in Business Central, AppSource integration and extensions.

Sotiris Dragonas

Senior Software Engineer in the Developer Tools team

They're a senior software engineer in the Developer Tools team. Specialized in the internals of the AL language and runtime, performance optimizations and data insights. They're also the person with the crab avatar answering your AL questions on GitHub.

Steffen Balslev

Engineering Manager - Business Central Developer Tools

Empowering every AL developer and BC organization on the planet to achieve more