Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

By : Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi
Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

By: Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi

Overview of this book

Dynamics 365 Business Central is an all-in-one business management solution, which is easy to adopt and helps you make smarter business decisions. This book is a comprehensive guide to developing solutions with Microsoft ERP (in the cloud and also on-premises). It covers all aspects of developing extensions, right from preparing a sandbox environment to deploying a complete solution. The book starts by introducing you to the Dynamics 365 Business Central platform and the new Modern Development Environment. You'll then explore the sandbox concept, and see how to create sandboxes for development. As you advance, you’ll be able to build a complete advanced solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central with AL language and Visual Studio Code. You'll then learn how to debug and deploy the extension and write automatic testing. The book will also take you through advanced topics like integration (with Azure Functions, web services, and APIs), DevOps and CI/CD techniques, and machine learning. You'll discover how Dynamics 365 Business Central can be used with Office 365 apps. Finally, you'll analyze different ways to move existing solutions to the new development model based on extensions. By the end of this book, you'll be able to develop highly customized solutions that meet the requirements of modern businesses using Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Dynamics 365 Business Central - Platform Overview and the Basics of Modern Development
5
Section 2: Developing Extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central
10
Section 3: Debugging, Testing, and Release Management (DevOps)
15
Section 4: Advanced Integrations with Dynamics 365 Business Central
20
Section 5: Moving Solutions to the New Extension Model

Summary

In this chapter, we learned what Azure DevOps is and what it provides, then created our account on Azure DevOps. We looked at how to manage and plan our work using Azure DevOps. We created a repository for our code and learned what we can set up to support our development cycle.

In the Branching strategies section, we learned how to use branches in our project to make the development stable and traceable. In the Git merge strategies and Git in Visual Studio Code sections, we looked at some specific aspects related to Git source control and how to use Git SCM from Visual Studio Code to keep our code safe.

We learned about Azure DevOps Pipelines, how to use them, and how to create them through the classic designer. In the last section, we looked at YAML files and how to use them to define our pipeline as part of our code.

In the next chapter, we'll go in depth...