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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Seventh Edition

By : Marije Brummel, Natalie Karolak, Christopher D. Studebaker, David Studebaker
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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

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

Overview of this book

Business Central opens a world of endless possibilities for custom business logic and functionality through extensions and customizations. For beginners in the AL language, navigating the vast landscape can feel overwhelming. It’s challenging to know where to start and what’s essential to learn. This updated edition offers a concise and well-organized guide, featuring hands-on exercises to support a successful learning journey. You’ll get to grips with the basics of Business Central and how to create your first Visual Studio Code project with the AL language. As you learn about the table data structure, simple and complex data types, relationships, validation, and data flow, you’ll be able to add and extend tables to your project. Progressively, you'll uncover the intricacies of user interfaces with pages, create advanced Excel report layouts, and harness the power of data queries. Immersing yourself in the AL language syntax, you’ll start with variables, methods, procedures, and statements. You'll explore advanced topics to create business logic such as FlowFields, filtering, CRUD methods, interactions between object types, and different API interfaces that can be created using the AL language. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped to build fully featured, robust extensions and custom capabilities for Business Central.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction to Business Central

“Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.”

– Ferdinand de Saussure

“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”

– Joseph Campbell

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central has one of the largest installed user bases of any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, serving over two hundred thousand companies and millions of individual users, at the time of writing. The community of supporting organizations, consultants, implementers, and developers continues to grow and prosper. The capabilities of the off-the-shelf product increase with every release. Additionally, the selection of add-on products and services expands both in variety and depth.

The release of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central continues its 30-plus-year history of continuous product improvement. It provides more user options for access and output formatting. For new installations, Business Central includes tools for rapid implementation. For all installations, it provides enhanced business functionality and more support for ERP computing in the cloud, including integration with Microsoft Office 365 and the greater Azure cloud architecture, including Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents).

Our goal in this chapter is to gain a big-picture understanding of Business Central. Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to envision how Business Central can be used by owners and managers of an organization to help manage activities and resources, whether the organization is for-profit or not-for-profit. You will also be introduced to the technical side of Business Central from a developer’s point of view.

In this chapter, we will take a look at Business Central by covering the following topics:

  • A general overview of Business Central
  • A technical overview of Business Central
  • A hands-on introduction to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) development in Business Central
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