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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)
9
Successful Conclusions
Advanced AL Development Tools
Quality isn't something you lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas tree. Quality must be in the heartwood.
– Robert Pirsig, paraphrased
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.
Fred Rogers

Business Central is extremely flexible and suitable for addressing many types of problems, there are a lot of choices for advanced Business Central topics. We'll try to cover those that will be most helpful in an effort to put together a complete implementation.

First, we will review the overall structure of Business Central as an application software system, aiming for a basic understanding of the process flow of the system, along with some of the utility functions built into the standard product. Before designing modifications for Business Central...