Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2 is the first release that does not include the classic development environment (also referred to as C/SIDE). With 2020 Release Wave 2, users access Dynamics 365 Business Central via the browser, the Windows 10 desktop app, mobile apps on Android and iOS, or in Outlook.
Microsoft is accelerating its investment in speed and productivity features for the modern browser experience, reaching a major milestone in transforming it into a world-class desktop experience for new and experienced Dynamics users. The modern clients now support so many productivity features that the older Dynamics NAV Windows client for Dynamics 365 Business Central will not be available in the future. The older Dynamics NAV client will continue to be supported in earlier versions according to the support lifecycle.
Strengthening of independent software vendors (ISV)
Meanwhile, the 2019 Release Wave 2 update offers a number of features designed to simplify independent software vendor (ISV) development for new solutions and, in particular, streamline migration from the source code customization model of Dynamics NAV to Dynamics 365 Business Central. In addition, Microsoft will focus on streamlining the path for independent software vendors (ISVs) to bring their solutions - and therefore their customers - online to Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Modern developer tools
The modern development environment based on Visual Studio Code with Azure DevOps and an AL language now supports large app development. Therefore, C/SIDE for Dynamics 365 Business Central will be discontinued in the future. Therefore, we have adjusted ourselves and our performance analysis tool "V8 Search XE" to the new situation. Nevertheless, there will be some changes in the area of performance optimization of Dynamics 365 BC Wave 2 and SQL Server.
How to work with performance issue in Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2 in the future....
What do you do when users complain that "it's slow" in the new modern browser environment? In this section, we would like to describe a troubleshooting process that can help you find the main cause of the problem.
Before you start solving a performance tuning problem, it is often helpful to define and quantify "slow". Try to negotiate acceptable values for the execution time of "slow" operations with BC users. This is sometimes referred to as "establishing a baseline".
To solve a performance problem, the following iterations are often performed:
- Measure system performance and capture performance data from SQL Server and Dynamics 365 BC servers
- Search for a bottleneck
- Remove the bottleneck
and continue until the "slow" operations are comparable to the established baseline.
Monitoring and analysis of telemetry Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2 and higher.
Business Central sends telemetry data for various activities and operations. V8 Search XE collects the telemetry data for Business Central On-Premises via the V8 Services. This means the data is stored centrally for all servers in the V8 database.
By monitoring the telemetry, you get a overview of the activities and overall health of your Dynamics system. It helps you diagnose problems and analyze processes that affect performance.
The following article may help you find more on this topic:
Monitoring and Analyzing Telemetry Business Central | Microsoft Docs
Conclusion
In our opinion, Microsoft has provided many new features in the area of performance optimization for Dynamics Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2. On the other hand, system maintainers and administrators will also have to deal with AL programming just like C/AL developers. We agree with the widespread opinion that we may continue to have our fun with the Dynamics Business Central / NAV onPremise versions for some time with the C/AL programming language. Of course, the know-how about the older NAV / BC versions will continue to play a crucial role for an ERP developer and administrators in the future.
Things change but sometimes also very quickly.
We will be happy to personally answer any further questions you may have on this topic.
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