Over ten years of experience in developing and implementing software solutions within the banking, tourism, manufacturing, education and retail sectors. Proven success of technical and functional skills in Technical Solution Development, Technical Consultation, Business Process Analyst, Process Re-Engineering, Solution Design, Project Management, Research & ERP Implementations. Managed and participated in over 40+ successful ERP (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) implementations during the past 10+ years while building relationships and exceeding client and management expectations. Possess a strong ability to turn around at-risk projects and deliver unique results. Recognize the value of being friendly, calm and helpful when interacting with people in all areas of life and always willing to learn new skills to build on strengths and learn from experiences. Active member and a community moderator of the official Microsoft Dynamics NAV Community forum and regularly share knowledge with others through personal Dynamics NAV Blog, user groups and webinars. Strongly believes that "one small piece of knowledge someone shares today could be the cornerstone of a huge concept that changes the world tomorrow". Recognized as a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. It is the only Dynamics NAV MVP in New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Specialities: » Development Languages: AL, C/AL, » ERP: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 to Business Central » Databases: MS SQL » Other: SANA, LS Retail
Tharanga Chandrasekara
Author's posts
Feb 12
Why Dataverse
Microsoft Dataverse provides a flexible and scalable platform for building and managing custom business applications and integrations in the cloud. Its powerful data modelling framework, low-code customization capabilities, and integration with other Microsoft products and services can help companies improve their data management, streamline their business processes, and support better decision-making.
Feb 08
User account does NOT have permission to run docker commands
On Windows systems, if you receive a permission error when trying to run Docker commands inside a Windows container, it may be because the user account running the Docker command doesn’t have the necessary permissions to access the Docker daemon.
Feb 02
Business Central Performance Profiler
If a business process takes longer than expected, your administrator can use the Performance Profiler page to record a snapshot of the process. While recording, the profiler monitors all of the apps that are involved in the process.
Jan 04
Read Data from Dynamics 365 Business Central Replica Database (Data Access Intent) – Part 2
My previous blog post discussed the benefits of using the read-only replica database. You can read it here. I want to share a little bit more about the new option available with Business Central APIs. Microsoft’s dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 release (version 19) onwards allows you to specify the Data Access Intent directly …
Jan 03
The request was blocked by the runtime to prevent accidental use of production services.
Once you create a Sandbox by copying over a production environment and trying to make HTTP requests, it gets blocked to prevent the use of production services. If you want to enable the requests going through, go to the Extension Management page and select the extension initiating the HTTP request. Go to the settings of …
Jul 19
Docker: You cannot sign in due to a technical issue. Contact your system administrator.
Docker: You cannot sign in due to a technical issue. Contact your system administrator.
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Jun 25
Read Data from Dynamics 365 Business Central Replica Database (Data Access Intent)
One beautiful thing about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is that it allows you to have a read-only replica of the Azure SQL database and use that replica database to perform read-only queries to retrieve data. Queries to retrieve data running on the replica database, your main database instance will run smoothly without any performance impacts.
Jun 25
OAuth – Part 05 – Service-to-Service Integration and Task Scheduler
In Basic authentication, we used an actual user to connect to BC, but with the new S2S authentication we are not using an actual user and Scheduled tasks must be created and executed in the context of a licensed user. Therefore API requests cannot schedule a background task. It is simple as that.
Mar 05
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 release wave 1 (BC20) SaaS preview environment is available.
Creating a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 preview environment is now possible. You need to go to the Admin Center of the Business Central tenant and create a Sandbox and select the version. Make sure to select 20.x.xxxxx.x (Preview) and click Create. To remember, Microsoft will sometimes remove these preview environments without …
Feb 27
OAuth – Part 03 – Logic App, OAuth and Business Central
This is the 3rd blog post of the OAuth series, and I have already completed the numbers 2 and 4. Once I complete this blog post today (Hopefully), I only have one to write. I will try to complete that one also within next week when I find some time during the night. I have …