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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Second Edition

By : Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi
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Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Second Edition

5 (3)
By: Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi

Overview of this book

This book dives straight into guiding you through the process of building real-world solutions with the AL language and Visual Studio Code. It emphasizes best practices and extensibility patterns to ensure your extensions are well-structured, maintainable, and meet the needs of modern businesses. You'll learn advanced AL techniques, report creation methods, debugging strategies, and how to leverage telemetries for monitoring. Additionally, it covers performance optimization practices and API integration to help you create efficient and interconnected solutions. With a focus on extension development, this new edition allows you to jump right into coding without spending time on setup processes. This book introduces new chapters covering essential tasks that Business Central developers frequently encounter, such as file handling and printing management. Finally, the book expands its scope by including chapters on various integration aspects, including VS Code extensions, GitHub DevOps, Azure services, and Power Platform integrations. We’ll wrap up by covering Copilot capabilities in Business Central and how you can create your own generative AI copilots. By mastering these concepts and techniques, you'll be well-equipped to create powerful and customized solutions that extend the capabilities of Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Tools to analyze telemetry data

One of the building blocks of Azure Monitor is that APIs are fully supported. In other words, when signals are ingested into Application Insights tables, these can be accessed externally through standard interfaces. As API requirements, these are fully documented by Microsoft at Azure Monitor Log Analytics API overview: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/api/overview. Let us give it a try together with the demo database first and then use our own Application Insights resource.

To consume an API, we could use a vast variety of tools; if you are familiar with APIs already, feel free to choose the one that you like or are most familiar with, including Postman or even the Dynamics 365 Business Central HttpClient data type. It is up to you. If you are a beginner or simply want to explore another tool that you are not using, let’s follow this example using yet another great Visual Studio Code extension, REST Client:

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