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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789951257
Length 770 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Duilio Tacconi Duilio Tacconi
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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

Basic concepts regarding extensions

As you already know, with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS, you don't have access to the database or to the standard base code (this is different in the on-premise version, where you can still have access to the base code, and modifying that core is your responsibility). In the SaaS world, you cannot alter the database schema and cannot alter the standard business logic.

In the previous versions of the Microsoft Dynamics ERP, we have always talked about code modification. In the SaaS world, we have to start thinking about a new concept: code extension. To customize Dynamics 365 Business Central, you have to create extensions.

An extension (according to Microsoft's guidelines) is defined as an installable feature built in a way that it does not directly alter source resources and that is distributed as a preconfigured package...

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