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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

Dynamics 365 Business Central REST APIs


At the time of writing, Dynamics 365 Business Central offers 44 standard APIs available for integration with external applications.

REST APIs permit you to create any type of application in any code language that interacts with Dynamics 365 Business Central by using HTTP CRUD operations (create, retrieve, update, delete).

To start using the APIs, you need to authenticate through Dynamics 365 Business Central. There are essentially two ways to authenticate:

  • Basic authentication: Log in to Dynamics 365 Business Central, select the Users page, select the user you want to use, click on the Web Service Access Key field, and generate a key. The generated key will be the password that you have to use for authentication, together with your username. The API endpoint to use is the following: https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v1.0/<yourtenantID>/api/beta.
  • Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication: This is what should be used in a production environment...