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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By : Stefano Demiliani, Tacconi
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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

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By: Stefano Demiliani, Tacconi
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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 (9 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview
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Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
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Summary 
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The New Extension Model
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The New Extension Model
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Traditional Microsoft Dynamics NAV customizations
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Summary
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Modern Development Environment Overview
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Modern Development Environment Overview
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Modern versus classic development environments
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The AL Extension
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AL snippets
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Native AL source-code management with Git
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Summary
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Creating Your Development Sandbox
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Creating Your Development Sandbox
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What is a sandbox?
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Online sandbox
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Azure-hosted sandbox
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Local-hosted sandbox
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Manually creating a sandbox based on Docker
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Developing an Extension with AL and VS Code
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Developing an Extension with AL and VS Code
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The business case
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Developing the extension
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Handling translations with XLIFF files
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Customizing the Headline
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Developing a custom report for our extension
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Extension dependency
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Installing and upgrading codeunits
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Deploying Extensions
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Deploying Extensions
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What does extension deployment mean?
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AL debugger
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AL CodeCop
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Summary
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Integration and Serverless Processing
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Integration and Serverless Processing
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Dynamics 365 Business Central web services
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Dynamics 365 Business Central REST APIs
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DotNet variables
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Azure Functions
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Microsoft Flow
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Microsoft PowerApps
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Summary
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Developing an Extension with AL and VS Code

In Chapter 4, Creating Your Development Sandbox, we saw how to create a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox environment for developing and testing purposes, and we saw all the available sandbox types you can create (online, hosted on Azure, and hosted locally).

In this chapter, we'll develop a complete extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central by using the new modern development environment, Visual Studio Code.

Here, you will learn the following:

  • How to create new tables and extend existing ones
  • How to create new pages and extend existing ones
  • How to create custom business logic and how to use events in AL
  • How to create a custom report
  • Different tips and tricks for developing extensions with AL
  • Handling dependencies between extensions
  • Handling translations and multi-language capabilities
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