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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By : Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi
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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By: Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the new SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. This latest version has many exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. This book is an ideal guide to Dynamics 365 Business Central and will help you get started with implementing and designing solutions for real-world scenarios. This book will take you through the fundamental topics for implementing solutions based on Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premise and SaaS). We'll see the core topics of the new development model (based on extensions) and we'll see how to create applications with the new Microsoft ERP proposition. The book begins by explaining the basics of Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft ERP proposition. We will then cover topics such as extensions, the new modern development model of Visual studio code, sandboxes, Docker, and many others. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to debug and compile extensions and to deploy them to the cloud and on-premise.You will also have learned how to create serverless business processes for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

The AL Extension


Visual Studio Code can be considered just a simple and powerful code editor as is.

What gives this application its sixth gear and credentials as a real modern development environment is the AL Extension created and engineered by the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Team.

The AL Extension is Built using the standard Visual Studio Code API; it can be deployed in the following ways:

  • Directly as a downloadable package from the Visual Studio Code marketplace. Targeted only for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
  • Manually as an installable package (VSIX) from the product DVD. Targeted only for on- premises Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Even if they might look like the same, they are consistently different, since VSIX is coming from the on-premises product DVD and is currently just a cut-off, limited version from the fall of 2017 and does not contain all the enhancements and new features made by the modern development team up to now. These features will be exclusively...