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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide Modern development techniques for Dynamics 365 Business Central

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789347463

Length 224 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Dynamics 365

Concepts

CRM

Authors (2):

Stefano Demiliani

Duilio Tacconi

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview FREE CHAPTER

2. The New Extension Model

3. Modern Development Environment Overview

4. Creating Your Development Sandbox

5. Developing an Extension with AL and VS Code

6. Deploying Extensions

7. Integration and Serverless Processing

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What is a sandbox?

In Dynamics 365 Business Central, a sandbox is an environment totally isolated from a production instance, where you can develop, test, run demos, and play with the service, without affecting the real production data.

You can create a sandbox environment by connecting to your Business Central instance, clicking on the search button in the top bar, and searching for the word sandbox (or, if you prefer, by accessing the Administrator | IT Administration | General menu in Dynamics 365 Business Central):

Searching for sandbox in Dynamics 265 Business Central

You will be presented with two main choices:

Creating an online sandbox
Creating a container-based sandbox

These are the differences between the two choices:

Online Sandbox	Container-Based Sandbox
Dynamics 365 Cloud Service	Run in Azure VM or locally
Managed by Microsoft	Managed by partner
Same environment as production	Container-based environment
Visual Studio Code only	Visual Studio Code. Supports also C/SIDE and SQL Management Studio...

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Authors (2)

Tacconi

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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Stefano Demiliani

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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