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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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered a lot of advanced topics and saw some tricks to implement particular tasks with the AL language extension.

We saw how to use access modifiers in code (useful to protect your object’s visibility), how to use TryFunctions and collectible errors in order to create a better error-handling experience for your users, how to handle structured data with XML and JSON (useful to manage data coming from files or API or web service calls), and how to add security to extensions data by using Isolated Storage and Azure Key Vault.

We also saw how to improve the Dynamics 365 Business Central user experience by using control add-ins, and how to use asynchronous programming to execute tasks in the background without blocking the main UI (a useful trick to provide users with a fast page-opening experience).

You are now able to create complex extensions to improve the general user experience and handle different business tasks.

In the next chapter...