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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

Creating Generative AI Solutions for Dynamics 365 Business Central

In the previous chapter, we had an overview of a set of useful tools that can improve your development experience.

In this chapter, we want to talk about a hot topic that, over the last year, has become present in every Microsoft product: generative AI and copilots. In the Microsoft world, you have Microsoft Copilot (a free and open AI chatbot similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT), Microsoft 365 Copilot (an AI assistant integrated into M365 products), and then a set of product-specific embedded AI features, commonly known as “copilots.”

Microsoft is investing a lot in embedding these copilots in its entire suite of products and Dynamics 365 Business Central has been impacted by this change. Copilot in Business Central embeds different native AI features into the standard product, including marketing text generation and bank account reconciliation. You can read more about these standard features...