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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to extend Dynamics 365 Business Central by using some serverless services offered by the Azure platform. In particular, you learned how to create Azure functions and how to use them from AL code for extending the capabilities of the ERP and for using (or reusing) .NET assemblies (standard, custom, or third-party ones). Then, you saw how to create low-code workflows for integrating Dynamics 365 Business Central by using Azure Logic Apps and you learned the main differences compared to Power Automate.

Now, you have the full power of Azure in your hands for creating no-limits and reliable functionalities and integrations for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

In the next chapter, we’ll focus the attention on applying DevOps principles for Dynamics 365 Business Central extension’s development and we’ll see how we can automate CI/CD tasks in our AL development process.

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