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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cookbook Effective recipes for developing and deploying applications with Dynamics 365 Business Central

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789958546
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Glue Michael Glue
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Get the Basics out of the Way FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing What's Already There 3. Let's Go Beyond 4. Testing and Debugging - You Just Gotta Do It 5. Old School, Meet New School 6. Making Your App Extensible 7. Business Central for All 8. DevOps - Don't Live without It 9. Time to Share Your Application! 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Old School, Meet New School

Up until this point, we've been building a brand new application, but what about all the great CAL solutions that have been created on the Dynamics NAV platform? Sure, you can always re-code them from scratch, but you don't have to. Microsoft has provided a tool that allows us to convert existing CAL objects to new AL-based ones. We'll take a look at what that process looks like, as well as some of the things that need to happen when the conversion is done.

Handling the source code is one step of the conversion from CAL to AL. We'll also explore how to upgrade the data that was held in the old CAL objects. Remember, with a modern development extension platform, the data in any AL table or field no longer resides in the same physical place in the database, so we need a way to move it.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes...

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