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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

Summary

"Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you."
– David Schwarzer

In this chapter, we covered Visual Studio Code navigation. We covered a number of AL language areas, including procedures and how they may be used, variables of various types (both development and system), basic AL syntax, expressions, and operators. Some of the essential AL procedures that we covered included user dialogs, SETRANGE filtering, GET, variations of FIND, and BEGIN-END for code structures, plus IF-THEN for basic process flow control. Finally, we got some hands-on experience by adding validation code to a table and creating a new report that included embedded AL code and a request page.

In the next chapter, we will expand our exploration and practice using AL. We will learn about additional AL procedures, flow control structures, input/output procedures, and...