"You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure."
– Gordon B. Hinckley
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The design of an application should begin at the simplest level, that is, with the design of the data elements. The type of data our development tool supports has a significant effect on our design. Because Business Central is designed for financially-oriented business applications, Business Central data types are financially- and business-oriented.
In this chapter, we will cover many of the data types that we will use within Business Central. For each data type, we will cover some of the more frequently modified...