You're reading from Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central The complete guide for designing and integrating advanced Business Central solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837630646

Length 684 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Dynamics 365

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Authors (2):

Stefano Demiliani

Duilio Tacconi

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central’s Online Momentum

2. Mastering a Modern Development Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Extension Development Fundamentals

4. Developing a Customized Solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central

5. Writing Code for Extensibility

6. Advanced AL Development

7. Handling Files with Dynamics 365 Business Central

8. Report Development

9. Printing

10. Debugging

11. Telemetry

12. Coding for Performance

13. Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs

14. Extending Dynamics 365 Business Central with Azure Services

15. DevOps for Dynamics 365 Business Central

16. Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power Platform Integration

17. Useful and Proficient Tools for AL Developers

18. Creating Generative AI Solutions for Dynamics 365 Business Central

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

20. Index

Preface

This book is an essential guide for developers that need to create advanced solutions with Dynamics 365 Business Central, the cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution provided by Microsoft.

We start by explaining the Dynamics 365 Business Central platform and its most recent developments, as well as anticipating its future development and how you can prepare for it. Our aim in this edition is to start coding an extension as soon as possible, so we will promptly move on to cover developer-oriented topics when coding your own Business Central extensions, covering the best coding practices for performant code.

In this edition, you’ll find new and improved coverage of some of the most common developer tasks in Business Central. In particular, you’ll find chapters on reporting, printing, and handling files from the cloud platform. After covering these tasks, you’ll learn how to perform debugging and telemetry for fully monitoring a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant. You’ll also learn how to apply DevOps principles to your development practice by using AL-Go for GitHub.

In this book we put a strong focus on integration, covering topics like APIs, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Dataverse, and Power Platform. Integrating with these technologies allows you to create custom applications connected to Dynamics 365 Business Central. In this edition we wanted to expand our coverage of Power Apps in particular, so we have added a detailed project with step-by-step instructions. You’ll learn how to create a fully functional app, complete with offline capabilities.

An exciting new topic in Microsoft is the integration of custom generative AI solutions in Dynamics 365 Business Central by using Azure OpenAI and the Copilot developer toolkit from AL. We’ll wrap up covering how you can configure the Copilot capabilities in Business Central, as well as how to create your own copilots.

Overall, we hope this book will help experienced developers learn the latest tools in the trade and best coding practices to become an expert at developing solutions for Dynamics 365 Business Central.