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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

What is a sandbox?


In Dynamics 365 Business Central, a sandbox is an environment totally isolated from a production instance, where you can develop, test, run demos, and play with the service, without affecting the real production data.

You can create a sandbox environment by connecting to your Business Central instance, clicking on the search button in the top bar, and searching for the word sandbox (or, if you prefer, by accessing the Administrator | IT Administration | General menu in Dynamics 365 Business Central):

Searching for sandbox in Dynamics 265 Business Central

You will be presented with two main choices:

  • Creating an online sandbox
  • Creating a container-based sandbox

 

These are the differences between the two choices:

Online Sandbox

Container-Based Sandbox

Dynamics 365 Cloud Service

Run in Azure VM or locally

Managed by Microsoft

Managed by partner

Same environment as production

Container-based environment

Visual Studio Code only

Visual Studio Code. Supports also C/SIDE and SQL Management Studio...