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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By : Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi
Book Image

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

Native AL source-code management with Git


The Source-Code Management (SCM) is a problem that is amplified coming from a single object created and maintained by a single person for up to several objects (also called a project or, with more complexity, solution) developed by several persons (also known as teams).

As developers, document and tracking changes is a must, as well as maintaining a chronological history of these changes, the people who performed these changes, and the business reason that lies behind these changes.

Looking at the CSIDE Development Environment, this really has zero footprint out of the box and no documentation related to source-code management. If you browse through official literature or blogs, you might find out how hard it is to maintain a vertical solution with on-premises Microsoft Dynamics NAV in terms of version control, using CSIDE. You might find out partners or customers who blogged about using the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation to track changes...