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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

Local-hosted sandbox


A local-hosted Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox requires that you have a machine running Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016, with Docker installed and running.

Docker for Windows can be installed from the following link: https://www.docker.com/docker-windows.

Run the installer with administrator privileges. After installation, check that Docker is running Windows Container (right click on the Docker icon in the task bar):

On your Windows Settings, check that you've enabled the PowerShell execution script option:

A local-hosted sandbox can be created by selecting the Sandbox Environment (Container) option as shown and then selecting Host locally:

At this point, you will be asked to download and save a Powershell script file called CreateBCSandbox.ps1.

After saving it, start Powershell ISE with administrator privileges and open that file.

In this Powershell script, you've simply to set these parameters:

  • Set the $containername variable to the name of your Dynamics 365 Business...