Customizing Dynamics 365 Business Central with Cursor: A New AI-Powered Approach ?

Developing extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central traditionally relies on Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with the AL Language extension. However, a new AI-powered code editor, Cursor, is emerging as a promising alternative for faster and smarter development.

What is Cursor?

Cursor is a modified version of Visual Studio Code, tailored for developers who want to leverage AI features directly within their editor. While it maintains the familiarity of VS Code, Cursor adds an AI-powered coding assistant, offering:

• 🧠 Code completions powered by GPT models
• ✍️ Inline suggestions and refactoring help
• 🕵️ Code explanations and documentation generation
• 🔎 Intelligent search and navigation tools

Why Consider Cursor for Business Central?

Familiar Environment

Since Business Central development relies heavily on VS Code (the only supported environment for AL language development), transitioning to Cursor is seamless. All VS Code extensions, including the AL Language extension, are fully compatible.

AI Assistance for AL Code

Business Central developers often find themselves performing repetitive coding tasks such as:

• Writing table and page objects
• Creating boilerplate event subscribers
• Documenting code for maintainability
• Refactoring duplicated logic into reusable procedures

Cursor’s AI assistant can dramatically speed up these tasks by suggesting code snippets, generating documentation, and even helping to refactor existing code — all directly inside the editor.

Faster Learning for New Developers

For junior developers or those new to Business Central, Cursor’s inline explanations can provide instant clarifications for standard AL patterns and Microsoft conventions. This can reduce onboarding time and improve code quality.

Practical Example

To install Cursor for BC you can check Yun Zhu Post

On cursor, simply create a new BC project with AL Go command, download symbol. As soon as it is done, I tried the following prompt in cursor chat part : Extend customer card by adding field sector (code 10), separate file for table extension and page extension

See the result !

There is some limitation like the fact that you need to login on Cursor and it is not officially recommended by Microsoft for Business Central Development.

Try it and give me your feedback in comment