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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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The AL Extension

Visual Studio Code can be considered just a simple and powerful code editor as is.

What gives this application its sixth gear and credentials as a real modern development environment is the AL Extension created and engineered by the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Team.

The AL Extension is Built using the standard Visual Studio Code API; it can be deployed in the following ways:

  • Directly as a downloadable package from the Visual Studio Code marketplace. Targeted only for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
  • Manually as an installable package (VSIX) from the product DVD. Targeted only for on- premises Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Even if they might look like the same, they are consistently different, since VSIX is coming from the on-premises product DVD and is currently just a cut-off, limited version from the fall of 2017 and does not contain...

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