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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

Azure-hosted sandbox


With the Azure-hosted sandbox option, you can create a Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox on an Azure Virtual Machine, by using a predefined template. This template gives you the option to create an Azure VM with Docker as the infrastructure for the container-based application is automatically configured. Obviously, this option requires that you have an active Azure subscription, and each sandbox has its costs in terms of Azure resources.

To create an Azure-hosted Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox, select the Sandbox Environment (Container) option as shown and then select Host in Azure:

After clicking this button, you will be redirected to your Azure portal account, and the template for the Azure Virtual Machine will be provided:

In this template, you with need to select a Resource group (or create a new one), select the VM name and the VM admin password (used also for connecting to the Docker-based instance of Dynamics 365 Business Central), select Accept Eula is...