Setting up your Business Central environment

While the writing of app and test code is done in VS Code and could be done to a certain extent without a Business Central environment, you always eventually need to deploy it to Business Central. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, right? You want to see that it can be published and installed and, even more, you want to verify that your app code passes the checks your test code has been set up to do.

For development purposes, it's often best to have a local installation of Business Central or one in a VM for your own use. For the test automation worked on in this book, it has to be an on-prem installation – that is, not using the SaaS version – as some of the standard Microsoft test apps and test libraries can only run on-prem. Whether you're using a VM for this or not is of no importance here.

An on-prem installation can either be achieved by installing it from a product DVD or by using BcContainerHelper...