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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

By : Simon Buxton
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

By: Simon Buxton

Overview of this book

Dynamics 365 for Operations is the ERP element of Microsoft’s new Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition. Operations delivers the infrastructure to allow businesses to achieve growth and make better decisions using scalable and contemporary ERP system tools. This book provides a collection of “recipes” to instruct you on how to create—and extend—a real-world solution using Operations. All key aspects of the new release are covered, and insights into the development language, structure, and tools are discussed in detail. New concepts and patterns that are pivotal to elegant solution designs are introduced and explained, and readers will learn how to extend various aspects of the system to enhance both the usability and capabilities of Operations. Together, this gives the reader important context regarding the new concepts and the confidence to reuse in their own solution designs. This “cookbook” provides the ingredients and methods needed to maximize the efficiency of your business management using the latest in ERP software—Dynamics 365 for Operations.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Creating a Form Adaptor project

Form adaptors are used in order to create test cases for user interface events--they provide a bridge between the form interactions and code. They can be created within the main project, but this creates a lot of needless classes that we will rarely wish to see.

Getting ready

Open the project that we need form adaptors for, which, in our case, is ConWHSVehicleManagement.

How to do it...

To create the Form Adapter project, follow these steps:

  1. Select Dynamics 365 for Operations | Create model from the top menu and complete the Create model form as follows:

Field

Value

Model...