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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)

Consuming external web services

One new feature that is native to the AL programming language is the ability to make web requests. Using new variable types, it's incredibly easy to connect to external endpoints to push and pull data between an external system and your Business Central application.

This recipe will show you how to connect to a RESTful API in order to retrieve JSON-formatted data.

Getting ready

You need to have your AL development sandbox ready to go. I'll mention it again, but it's recommended that you use a Business Central online sandbox for the recipes in this chapter. Any of the additional deployment types may require further setup and configuration that are beyond the scope of the recipe...