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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

Understanding Isolated Storage

Isolated Storage is key-value-based storage that provides data isolation between extensions. Isolated Storage can be used to store data that must be preserved inside the extension scope, and this data is accessible via AL code. The DataScope option type identifies the scope of stored data in Isolated Storage.DataScope is an optional parameter, and the default value is Module. All possible values are listed in the following table:

Member Description
Module It indicates that the record is available in the scope of the app context.
Company It indicates that the record is available in the scope of the company within the app context.
User It indicates that the record is available for a user within the app context.
CompanyAndUser It indicates that the record is available for a user and specific company within the app context.

To manage data in Isolated Storage, you have the following methods:

Method Description
[Ok := ] IsolatedStorage. Set...