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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

What does extension deployment mean?


The extension deployment is made up of different phases, but roughly it means transforming the flat design-time written AL code into its equivalent runtime execution in the test, staging, or production environment. Deploying an extension can be done in four different ways:

  • Automatically
  • Semi-automatically
  • Manually
  • Through AppSource

The adoption of each of these depends on the technologies used and which environment type the extension is targeting: test or production, cloud-based or on-premises, custom-single-tenant or standard-multiple-tenant distribution.

Automatic deployment

This is done through Visual Studio Code with the AL language enabled. It could be done directly through Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox or in Docker contained sandbox staging environments.

Note

It cannot be done automatically in Dynamics 365 Business Central production tenants.

Deployment can be invoked in different ways, by:

  • Pressing F5
  • Running the command palette: AL:Publish
  • Selecting...