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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

Installing and upgrading codeunits


When you develop an extension, there's also an important aspect to take care of: installation and upgrading operations. When an extension is installed or upgraded, you often need to perform certain operations on data, such as populating new data and restoring existing ones. These tasks can be achieved by writing extension-install-and-upgrade code.

In this type of code, you can access the extension properties (such as version, name, publisher, and dependencies) by using the NAVApp.GetCurrentModuleInfo() and NAVAPP.GetModuleInfo() methods.

The install logic can be written by creating an install codeunit, that is, a codeunit with SubType = Install.

An install codeunit has two main system triggers:

  • OnInstallAppPerCompany(): Includes code for company-related operations. Runs once for each company in the database.
  • OnInstallAppPerDatabase(): Includes code for database-related operations. Runs once in the entire install process.

This is an example of an Install Codeunit...