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You're reading from Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Discover extension development best practices, build advanced ERP integrations, and use DevOps tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789951257

Length 770 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Dynamics 365

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

Duilio Tacconi

Stefano Demiliani

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Dynamics 365 Business Central - Platform Overview and the Basics of Modern Development FREE CHAPTER

2. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview

3. Mastering a Modern Development Environment

4. Online and Container-Based Sandboxes

5. Section 2: Developing Extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central

6. Extension Development Fundamentals

7. Developing a Customized Solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central

8. Advanced AL Development

9. Report Development with AL

10. Section 3: Debugging, Testing, and Release Management (DevOps)

11. Installing and Upgrading Extensions

12. Debugging

13. Automated Test Development with AL

14. Source Control Management and DevOps with Business Central

15. Section 4: Advanced Integrations with Dynamics 365 Business Central

16. Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs

17. Serverless Business Processes with Business Central and Azure

18. Monitoring, Scaling, and CI/CD with Azure Functions

19. Business Central and Integration with the Power Platform

20. Section 5: Moving Solutions to the New Extension Model

21. Integrating Machine Learning into Dynamics 365 Business Central

22. Moving Existing ISV Solutions to the New Extension Model

23. Useful and Proficient Tools for AL Developers

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Mastering a Modern Development Environment

In the previous chapter, we introduced Dynamics 365 Business Central and revealed that its skeleton is Microsoft cloud microservices.

In this chapter, we will take a close look at the development environment. We will discuss the main shortcuts, tips, and tricks related to Visual Studio Code, the official development platform, and the AL language, the development language extension. The union between Visual Studio Code and AL defines the so-called modern development environment.

AL is the official extension provided by Microsoft, free of charge, through the online marketplace. Officially released in 2017 to extend what was then called Dynamics 365 for Financials, it is now a solid fully fledged development language that extends Dynamics 365 Business Central. It comes equipped with a lot of features that greatly enhance developers&apos...

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Authors (2)

Stefano Demiliani

Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft MVP on Business Applications and Azure, MCT, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Azure Certified Architect, and an expert in other Microsoft related technologies. His main activity is architecting and developing enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (mainly focused on ERP and serverless applications). He has worked with Packt Publishing on many IT books related to Azure cloud applications and Dynamics 365 Business Central and is a frequent speaker at IT conferences around Europe. In his free time Stefano is also a runner and a cyclist.

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Tacconi

Duilio Tacconi is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Escalation Engineer at Microsoft EMEA Customer Support & Services (CSS). He joined Microsoft in 2008 after working in a customer IT department with a focus on system administration and development. Despite graduating with the highest score in Agricultural Science in 1996, he is in the ERP circuit since 1998 as developer and system implementer for several companies with Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies. Currently, he is a subject matter expert in EMEA for RDLC Report development and one of Microsoft EMEA CSS reference for Managed Service for Partners (MSfP). Three times IronMan finisher, Duilio lives in Cernusco Sul Naviglio (Italy) with his beloved wife Laura and his 2 years old son Leonardo.

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