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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

Online sandbox


The online sandbox is an environment deployed as a Dynamics 365 Business Central service (SaaS). You can activate the online sandbox only from a production environment, by selecting Sandbox in the search box and clicking on the first choice (Sandbox Environment).

When the creation wizard starts, click Create:

A new browser window will open, and the sandbox creation process starts. At the end of this process, you have a welcome page that shows that the sandbox environment is ready. To start working with the online sandbox, click on the Close button:

When creating the online sandbox, a new Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant is deployed, and this tenant is created with a default demonstration company (CRONUS). At the moment, there isn't an option for copying data from the production tenant to the online sandbox.

You can reset your online sandbox environment at any time. Remember that resetting the sandbox will completely remove and recreate it with demonstration data. You can switch...