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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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Writing a dependent extension

In the previous chapter and the previous section on this chapter, we developed our base extension and deployed it.Imagine now that you've deployed this extension to a customer tenant and now the customer asks you for some customization:

  • They want to add the Certification No. field to the Vendor Quality table.
  • They want to change the charge calculation for a sales order by using a totally custom criteria (for example a fixed price).

As said before, to create a customization for your customer you should never directly modify your standard extension code, but instead you should create a new extension that will be dependent on your base extension.To do this, we create a new extension project in Visual Studio Code called Packt Dependent Extension. This new extension must be dependent on our previously created Packt Demo Extension; otherwise, we won't be able to see the objects defined in that extension.To declare dependencies between apps, we need...

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