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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

Frequently used AL procedures

It's time to learn about more of the standard procedures that are provided by Microsoft. We will focus on the following short list of frequently used procedures: MESSAGE, ERROR, CONFIRM, and STRMENU.

There is a group of procedures in AL called Dialog procedures. The purpose of these procedures is to allow communication, that is, dialog, between the system and the user. In addition, the Dialog procedures can be useful for quick and simple testing/debugging. To make it easier for us to proceed with our next level of AL development work, we'll take time now to learn about these four dialog procedures. None of these procedures will operate if the AL code is running on the Business Central job queue as it has no GUI available. To handle that situation in previous versions of Business Central, the Dialog procedure statements had to be conditioned with the GUIALLOWED procedure to check whether or not the code was running in a GUI allowed environment...