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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cookbook

By : Michael Glue
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cookbook

By: Michael Glue

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a complete business management solution that can help you streamline business processes, connect individual departments in your company, and enhance customer interactions. Ok. That first part was really professional sounding, right? Now, let’s get into what this cookbook is going to do for you: put simply, it’s going to help you get things done. This book will help you get to grips with the latest development features and tools for building applications using Business Central. You’ll find recipes that will guide you in developing and testing applications that can be deployed to the cloud or on-premises. For the old-schoolers out there, you’ll also learn how to take your existing Dynamics NAV customizations and move them to the new AL language platform. Also, if you haven’t figured it out already, we’re going to be using very normal language throughout the book to keep things light. After all, developing applications is fun, so why not have fun learning as well!
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Old School, Meet New School

Up until this point, we've been building a brand new application, but what about all the great CAL solutions that have been created on the Dynamics NAV platform? Sure, you can always re-code them from scratch, but you don't have to. Microsoft has provided a tool that allows us to convert existing CAL objects to new AL-based ones. We'll take a look at what that process looks like, as well as some of the things that need to happen when the conversion is done.

Handling the source code is one step of the conversion from CAL to AL. We'll also explore how to upgrade the data that was held in the old CAL objects. Remember, with a modern development extension platform, the data in any AL table or field no longer resides in the same physical place in the database, so we need a way to move it.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes...