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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

IntelliSense

As an IDE, Visual Studio Code contains a number of tools designed to make our AL development effort easier. One of these is IntelliSense. When we are in one of the areas where AL code is supported, the IntelliSense menu window can be accessed via Ctrl + spacebar:

IntelliSense is a very useful multi-purpose tool for the developer. It serves the following purposes:

  • As a quick reference to the available AL functions
  • Documentation of the syntax of those functions
  • Access Microsoft Docs for more information on those functions
  • As a source of variable names or function structures to paste into our code

The use of IntelliSense for reference purposes is especially helpful, not only when we are a beginning AL developer, but also after we have become experienced developers. It is a guide to the inventory of available code tools with some very handy built-in programming aids.

The second use of IntelliSense is as a symbol table. The symbol table for our object is visible in...