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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

Who is Waldo?

Waldo’s real name is Eric Wauters, and he is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions and Cloud Ready Software. With his 18 years of technical expertise, he is an everyday inspiration to its development teams. As a development manager, he continually acts upon the technical readiness of iFacto.

Apart from that, Eric is also very active in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central community, where he tries to solve technical issues and shares his knowledge with other Dynamics enthusiasts. Surely, a lot of you will have read some of Eric’s posts, which he invariably signs with waldo.

Lots of people have been using and even contributing to tools he shares for free on MiBuSo, GitHub, the PowerShell Gallery, and the Visual Studio Marketplace.

His proven track record led to him being given a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award each year since 2007.

After learning about Waldo, in the next section, we’ll see...