Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By : Stefano Demiliani, Tacconi

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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

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By: Stefano Demiliani, Tacconi

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Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the new SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. This latest version has many exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. This book is an ideal guide to Dynamics 365 Business Central and will help you get started with implementing and designing solutions for real-world scenarios. This book will take you through the fundamental topics for implementing solutions based on Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premise and SaaS). We'll see the core topics of the new development model (based on extensions) and we'll see how to create applications with the new Microsoft ERP proposition. The book begins by explaining the basics of Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft ERP proposition. We will then cover topics such as extensions, the new modern development model of Visual studio code, sandboxes, Docker, and many others. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to debug and compile extensions and to deploy them to the cloud and on-premise.You will also have learned how to create serverless business processes for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview

Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Summary

The New Extension Model

Traditional Microsoft Dynamics NAV customizations

Summary

Modern Development Environment Overview

Modern versus classic development environments

The AL Extension

AL snippets

Native AL source-code management with Git

Summary

Creating Your Development Sandbox

What is a sandbox?

Online sandbox

Azure-hosted sandbox

Local-hosted sandbox

Manually creating a sandbox based on Docker

Summary

Developing an Extension with AL and VS Code

The business case

Developing the extension

Handling translations with XLIFF files

Customizing the Headline

Developing a custom report for our extension

Extension dependency

Installing and upgrading codeunits

Summary

Deploying Extensions

What does extension deployment mean?

AL debugger

AL CodeCop

Summary

Integration and Serverless Processing

Dynamics 365 Business Central web services

Dynamics 365 Business Central REST APIs

DotNet variables

Azure Functions

Microsoft Flow

Microsoft PowerApps

Summary

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Creating Your Development Sandbox

In Chapter 3, Modern Development Environment Overview, we gave you an overview of the new modern development environment based on Visual Studio Code for developing extensions for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and you had a lot of tips and tricks for customizing and optimizing your development experience.

In this chapter, we'll see how to create an environment isolated from the production one (called a sandbox) for developing and testing purposes. Here, we'll learn the following:

What is a sandbox environment in Dynamics 365 Business Central?
What are the available types of sandbox environments?
How to create and use a sandbox environment for testing and developing with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.