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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By : Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By: Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a full business solution suite and a complete ERP solution, which contains a robust set of development tools; these tools can help you to gain control over your business and can simplify supply chains, manufacturing, and operations. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise covers the latest features of Dynamics Business Central and NAV from the end users' and developers' perspectives. It also provides an insight into different tools available for implementation, whether it's a new installation or migrating from the previous version of Dynamics NAV. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV 2018 through to exploring all the techniques related to implementation and migration. You will also learn to expand functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. As you progress through the book, you will learn to work with third-party add-on tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore Dynamics 365 Business Central, the new Cloud solution based on the Microsoft NAV platform, and techniques for using Docker and Sandbox to develop applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the key components for successful Dynamics NAV implementation for an organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Source Control Management (SCM)


SCM is necessary to keep projects under control, especially on multi-projects spanning different environments.

A good SCM system should manage the following:

  • Versioning and chronological changes
  • Comparing and merging
  • Restoring to checkpoint

Git and GitHub

If you need to use Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with SCM integration, Git is the best solution (free, open source and natively integrated with VS Code).

What is Git? Git is a version control system for tracking changes (SCM) in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people. Git is an open source distributed version control engine. VS Code supports Git natively.

Some Git commands are as follows:

  • cmd: git remote add origin master <repo url>
  • cmd: git push –u origin master
  • cmd: git push -u add master

The Git local repository commits to GitHub, pushes the content of the local repository into the branch calledmaster.

The following screenshot shows Git commands...