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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!

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Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Sections
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1
Let's Get the Basics out of the Way
Let's Get the Basics out of the Way
Technical requirements
Setting up your development sandbox
Creating a new AL project
Creating basic entities
Creating new business logic
Classifying data
User permissions
Creating new reports
Adding help links
2
Customizing What's Already There
Customizing What's Already There
Technical requirements
Adding fields to base application tables
Modifying the base application interface
Modifying the base application business logic
Using In-client Designer
Using Event Recorder
Replacing base application reports
Adding new profiles and role centers
Adding filter tokens
Adding application areas
3
Let's Go Beyond
Let's Go Beyond
Technical requirements
Control add-ins
Dependencies
Translations
Adding new manual setups
Assisted Setup wizards
Isolated storage
Notifications
Using the task scheduler
.NET interoperability
Implementing telemetry events
4
Testing and Debugging - You Just Gotta Do It
Testing and Debugging - You Just Gotta Do It
Technical requirements
Introducing the debugger
Debugging SQL
The Automated Testing Toolkit
Creating a test application
Creating automated tests
Testing the UI
UI handlers
Creating a test library
5
Old School, Meet New School
Old School, Meet New School
Technical requirements
Converting CAL to AL
Post-conversion cleanup
Upgrading data from CAL objects
6
Making Your App Extensible
Making Your App Extensible
Technical requirements
Publishing events in your code
Enums
The Discovery design pattern
The Handled design pattern
The Variant Façade design pattern
The Argument Table design pattern
7
Business Central for All
Business Central for All
Technical requirements
Consuming external web services
Publishing your own web service
Enabling basic authentication
The Business Central API – exploring with Postman
The Business Central API – retrieving data
The Business Central API – creating data
The Business Central API – publishing a custom endpoint
Power Platform – using Microsoft Power BI
Power Platform – using Microsoft Flow
Power Platform – using Microsoft PowerApps
Consuming Azure Functions
8
DevOps - Don't Live without It
DevOps - Don't Live without It
Technical requirements
Creating an Azure DevOps project
Creating a code repository
Connecting an AL project to Azure DevOps
Installing a pipeline agent
Creating a build pipeline
Creating a release pipeline
Enabling branch policies
9
Time to Share Your Application!
Time to Share Your Application!
Technical requirements
Developing for multiple platforms
Protecting your Intellectual Property
Signing your application
Installation logic
Upgrade logic
Installing applications with PowerShell
Upgrading applications with PowerShell
Deploying a tenant customization
10
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Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need an AL development sandbox. It is recommended that you use an online Business Central sandbox for these recipes and, as such, the recipes in this chapter assume that setup. If you need help, then you can always refer to the Setting up your development sandbox recipe in Chapter 1, Let's Get the Basics Out of the Way, for information on how to set all of this up.

Code samples and scripts are available on GitHub. Some of the recipes in this chapter build on previous recipes. You can download the completed recipe code from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Dynamics-365-Business-Central-Cookbook.

We're going to work with our old friend, the Television Show project, but I've made a few updates that we'll need for this chapter, so even if you've worked through all of the previous recipes to build...

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