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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

Modifiable procedures

In addition to the prewritten language component procedures, there are a large number of prewritten application component procedures. The difference between the two types is that the code implementing the latter is visible and modifiable through cloning, though we should be extremely cautious about making such clones.

An example of an application component procedure might be one to handle the task of processing a customer's shipping address to eliminate empty lines and standardize the layout based on user-defined setup parameters. Such a procedure would logically be placed in a codeunit and hence made available to any routine that needs this capability.

In fact, this procedure exists. It is called SalesHeaderShipTo and is located in the Format Address codeunit. We can explore the following codeunits for some procedures we might find useful to use or that we can borrow logic from. This is not an all-inclusive list, as there are many procedures in other codeunits...