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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

Events and the “Handled” pattern

When thinking about writing code for extensibility, the first answer is: use events!The use of events is a proven and established programming concept that can ease application upgrade and limit or even eliminate the need for code modifications in customized applications because of application platform changes.You can use events to design the application to react to specific actions or behaviour that occur. Events enable you to separate customized functionality from the application business logic.Events in AL language can be:

  • Business events
  • Integration events
  • Internal events (subscribed only within the same module)
  • Global events (predefined system events)
  • Trigger events

There are three major participants involved in events: the event, a publisher, and a subscriber.An event is the declaration of the occurrence or change in the application. An event is declared by an AL method, which is referred to as an event publisher function. An event...