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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

By : Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker
Book Image

Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

By: Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a full ERP business solution suite with a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These tools can be used to tailor Business Central's in-built applications to support complete management functions for finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. Using a case study approach, this book will introduce you to Dynamics 365 Business Central and Visual Studio Code development tools to help you become a productive Business Central developer. You'll also learn how to evaluate a product's development capabilities and manage Business Central-based development and implementation. You'll explore application structure, the construction of and uses for each object type, and how it all fits together to build apps that meet special business requirements. By the end of this book, you'll understand how to design and develop high-quality software using the Visual Studio Code development environment, the AL language paired with the improved editor, patterns, and features.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Successful Conclusions

Table properties

The first step in studying the internal construction of a table is to open one in Visual Studio Code. We will use the Radio Show table we created in Chapter 1, Introduction to Business Central, to show you this.

We now have the Radio Show table open in Visual Studio Code, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can access the properties of a table. Place the cursor on the empty line above the fields (as shown in the preceding screenshot) and click on Ctrl + spacebar. If we hit Ctrl + spacebar while the focus is on a filled field line, we will see the properties of that field (not the table).

The options that you can see in Visual Studio Code should look as follows:

The table properties are as follows:

  • Caption: This contains the caption that was defined for the currently selected language. The default language for Business Central is English, US (ENU).
  • CaptionML: This defines the MultiLanguage caption for the table. For an extended discussion on the language capabilities...