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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

Setting up your self-hosted GitHub runner

When you execute the CI/CD workflow (the build pipeline), you can see that it takes quite a lot of time, and this is a billable time for GitHub (it consumes the amount of build time you have for pipelines in your account). This is because the pipeline is executed by a GitHub-hosted runner.

You can increase the performance of your build pipelines by adding your own self-hosted GitHub runner, which can cache the generic image, the build image, and also the artifacts.

With a GitHub-hosted runner, you have:

  • No caching
  • A long build time
  • Zero maintenance
  • Unlimited minutes of build for public repositories
  • Limited minutes for private repositories

With a self-hosted runner, you have:

  • Caching of artifacts and images
  • A reduced build time
  • Maintenance/renewal requirements
  • Unlimited minutes of build for public repositories
  • Unlimited minutes of build for private repositories...