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Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Abhimanyu Singh, Deepak Agarwal
Book Image

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Abhimanyu Singh, Deepak Agarwal

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations has a lot to offer developers. It allows them to customize and tailor their implementations to meet their organization’s needs. This Development Cookbook will help you manage your company or customer ERP information and operations efficiently. We start off by exploring the concept of data manipulation in Dynamics 365 for Operations. This will also help you build scripts to assist data migration, and show you how to organize data in forms. You will learn how to create custom lookups using Application Object Tree forms and generate them dynamically. We will also show you how you can enhance your application by using advanced form controls, and integrate your system with other external systems. We will help you script and enhance your user interface using UI elements. This book will help you look at application development from a business process perspective, and develop enhanced ERP solutions by learning and implementing the best practices and techniques.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Creating a custom service


In Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, we still have custom services available to expose the system's functionality to the external world. Microsoft uses the SysOperation framework, where data contracts are decorated with standard attributes, and it automatically serializes and desterilizes data that is shared between two applications. Any service method can be exposed to the external world by using SysEntryPointAttribute and then specifying the service operation under Application Explorer | AOT | Services.

In this recipe, we will create a custom service that will be consumed in subsequent recipes to demonstrate how it could be consumed by the external world.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you should have a little knowledge of data contracts and service methods.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations project in Visual Studio and name it BuildingCustomService.
  2. In the project, create a new class, which will serve as a data contract for...