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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By : Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi
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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

Chapter 3. Modern Development Environment Overview

In Chapter 2The New Extension Model, we introduced what extending an application means and we tasted the new extensibility model for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

In this chapter, we will provide you with an overview of the new Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central modern development environment and we will help you to configure its core application, Visual Studio Code, for developing extensions and solutions targeted for a single tenant or SaaSified for AppSource. SaaSify is a neologism typically used by Microsoft Dynamics NAV developers when moving standard legacy C/AL customization to certified cloud-ready AL solutions for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

We will also learn how to use and create customized AL snippets to squeeze the maximum out of an efficient development environment.

By the end of the chapter, we will have also learned source-code management (SCM) with the powerful Visual Studio Code Git native integration...