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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

By : Stefano Demiliani, Tacconi
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

4.9 (17)
By: Stefano Demiliani, Tacconi

Overview of this book

This book dives straight into guiding you through the process of building real-world solutions with the AL language and Visual Studio Code. It emphasizes best practices and extensibility patterns to ensure your extensions are well-structured, maintainable, and meet the needs of modern businesses. You'll learn advanced AL techniques, report creation methods, debugging strategies, and how to leverage telemetries for monitoring. Additionally, it covers performance optimization practices and API integration to help you create efficient and interconnected solutions. With a focus on extension development, this new edition allows you to jump right into coding without spending time on setup processes. This book introduces new chapters covering essential tasks that Business Central developers frequently encounter, such as file handling and printing management. Finally, the book expands its scope by including chapters on various integration aspects, including VS Code extensions, GitHub DevOps, Azure services, and Power Platform integrations. We’ll wrap up by covering Copilot capabilities in Business Central and how you can create your own generative AI copilots. By mastering these concepts and techniques, you'll be well-equipped to create powerful and customized solutions that extend the capabilities of Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Mastering a Modern Development Environment

In the previous chapter, we introduced Dynamics 365 Business Central and the amazing momentum that its online version is enjoying.

In this chapter, we will take a close look at the development environment. We will discuss the main shortcuts, tips, and tricks related to Visual Studio Code, the official development platform, and the AL Language extension, the development language extension. The union between Visual Studio Code and AL defines the so-called modern development environment.

AL Language is the official Visual Studio Code extension provided by Microsoft, free of charge, through the online marketplace. AL stands for Application Language, although it’s typically referred to as AL Language. Officially released for the first time back in 2017 to extend what was then called Dynamics 365 for Financials (formerly Project Madeira), it is now a solid, fully fledged development language that extends Dynamics 365 Business Central. It comes equipped with a lot of features that greatly enhance developers’ productivity and coding quality.

The main goal of this chapter is to help Dynamics 365 Business Central developers understand what the development platform offers, unleash their potential, and become proficient in their daily coding activities.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

  • What the Visual Studio Code user interface is composed of, and the purpose of each section
  • How to be proficient in using the most powerful Visual Studio Code editing features
  • What the AL Language extension is and what it consists of
  • Turning on code analyzers to check and enforce encoding rules
  • Enabling GitHub Copilot to accelerate the writing of code
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