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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

Installing and upgrading codeunits

When you create an extension, you could have the need to check some conditions for the installation to be successful, or you need to initiate some setup tables or pre-populate other tables. To do this, you need to create Install codeunit.The extension's install logic must be written in a codeunit with the SubType property set to Install. This logic is triggered when the following is true:

  • You're installing the extension for the first time.
  • You have uninstalled the extension and then you're installing it again.

An Install codeunit supports the following system triggers:

  • OnInstallAppPerCompany(): The code inside this trigger runs once for each company in the Dynamics 365 Business Central database.
  • OnInstallAppPerDatabase(): The code inside this trigger runs once for the entire install process.

The same logic occurs when upgrading the extension. If you need to create a new version of your extension (the version number in the app.json...