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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

By : Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker
Book Image

Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

By: Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a full ERP business solution suite with a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These tools can be used to tailor Business Central's in-built applications to support complete management functions for finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. Using a case study approach, this book will introduce you to Dynamics 365 Business Central and Visual Studio Code development tools to help you become a productive Business Central developer. You'll also learn how to evaluate a product's development capabilities and manage Business Central-based development and implementation. You'll explore application structure, the construction of and uses for each object type, and how it all fits together to build apps that meet special business requirements. By the end of this book, you'll understand how to design and develop high-quality software using the Visual Studio Code development environment, the AL language paired with the improved editor, patterns, and features.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Successful Conclusions

WITH-DO statement

When we are writing code referring to fields within a record, the most specific syntax for field references is the fully qualified [ RecordName.FieldName ] reference. When referring to the City field in the Customer record, use the Customer.City reference.

In many AL instances, the record name qualifier is implicit because the compiler assumes a default record qualifier based on code context. This happens automatically for variables within a page bounded to a table. The bound table becomes the implicit record qualifier for fields referenced in the page object. In a table object, the table is the implicit record qualifier for fields referenced in the AL in that object. In report and XMLport objects, the DataItem record is the implicit record qualifier for the fields referenced within the triggers of that DataItem, such as OnAfterGetRecord and OnAfterImportRecord.

In all other AL code, the only way to have an implicit record qualifier is to use the...