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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By : Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi
Book Image

Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By: Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the new SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. This latest version has many exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. This book is an ideal guide to Dynamics 365 Business Central and will help you get started with implementing and designing solutions for real-world scenarios. This book will take you through the fundamental topics for implementing solutions based on Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premise and SaaS). We'll see the core topics of the new development model (based on extensions) and we'll see how to create applications with the new Microsoft ERP proposition. The book begins by explaining the basics of Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft ERP proposition. We will then cover topics such as extensions, the new modern development model of Visual studio code, sandboxes, Docker, and many others. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to debug and compile extensions and to deploy them to the cloud and on-premise.You will also have learned how to create serverless business processes for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we had an overview of the event-based development model for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the benefits that it offers for developers. We also had an overview of the new extension model for developing solutions for Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premises and SaaS) and the impact that this new model will have on the future of the Microsoft ERP customizations.

In Chapter 3Modern Development Environment Overview, we'll see an overview of the new modern development environment. We'll see how to use Visual Studio Code for developing solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how to customize it, how to handle source-code management, and tips and tricks for having an efficient development environment.