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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

Modern versus classic development environments


The history and success of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central's predecessor, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, starts with classic client.

From day one, this Visual C++ application was promising and after some decades of glory its retirement looks quite near. It will be replaced by the more modern, shiny, multi-platform, web application development-oriented Visual Studio Code.

Classic client used to be a two-sided application: a first-in-class production client for end users and at the same time a suitable workbench for developers.

With Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, it was deprecated as a production client and just simply named CSIDE (Client server integrated development environment), relegated to only a development application targeted as a Windows and/or web client.

Characteristics and advantages of CSIDE

CSIDE comes with native support for a proprietary language called C/AL (Client/Application Language), a solid and robust development language engineered...