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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789347463
Length 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefano Demiliani Stefano Demiliani
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Modern versus classic development environments

The history and success of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central's predecessor, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, starts with classic client.

From day one, this Visual C++ application was promising and after some decades of glory its retirement looks quite near. It will be replaced by the more modern, shiny, multi-platform, web application development-oriented Visual Studio Code.

Classic client used to be a two-sided application: a first-in-class production client for end users and at the same time a suitable workbench for developers.

With Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, it was deprecated as a production client and just simply named CSIDE (Client server integrated development environment), relegated to only a development application targeted as a Windows and/or web client.

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