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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Discover extension development best practices, build advanced ERP integrations, and use DevOps tools

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Stefano Demiliani and  Duilio Tacconi  
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|Dec 2019
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Develop customized business management solutions with the latest features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Key Features

    Book Description

    Dynamics 365 Business Central is an all-in-one business management solution, which is easy to adopt and helps you make smarter business decisions. This book is a comprehensive guide to developing solutions with Microsoft ERP (in the cloud and also on-premises). It covers all aspects of developing extensions, right from preparing a sandbox environment to deploying a complete solution.
    The book starts by introducing you to the Dynamics 365 Business Central platform and the new Modern Development Environment. You'll then explore the sandbox concept, and see how to create sandboxes for development. As you advance, you’ll be able to build a complete advanced solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central with AL language and Visual Studio Code. You'll then learn how to debug and deploy the extension and write automatic testing. The book will also take you through advanced topics like integration (with Azure Functions, web services, and APIs), DevOps and CI/CD techniques, and machine learning. You'll discover how Dynamics 365 Business Central can be used with Office 365 apps. Finally, you'll analyze different ways to move existing solutions to the new development model based on extensions.
    By the end of this book, you'll be able to develop highly customized solutions that meet the requirements of modern businesses using Dynamics 365 Business Central.

    What you will learn

    • Create a sandbox environment with Dynamics 365 Business Central
    • Handle source control management when developing solutions
    • Explore extension testing, debugging, and deployment
    • Create real-world business processes using Business Central and different Azure services
    • Integrate Business Central with external applications
    • Apply DevOps and CI/CD to development projects
    • Move existing solutions to the new extension-based architecture

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview
    2. Mastering Modern Development Environment
    3. Online and Container-based Sandboxes
    4. Extension Development fundamentals
    5. Developing a customized solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central
    6. Advanced AL Development
    7. Report Development with AL Language
    8. Installing and Upgrading extensions
    9. Debugging
    10. Automated Tests development with AL
    11. Source Control Management and DevOps with Dynamics 365 Business Central
    12. Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs model
    13. Serverless business processes with Dynamics 365 Business Central and Azure
    14. Monitoring, scaling and CI/CD with Azure Functions
    15. Dynamics 365 Business Central and integration with the Dynamics 365 Power Platform
    16. Integrating Machine Learning into Dynamics 365 Business Central
    17. Moving existing ISV solutions to the new extension model
    18. Useful and proficient tools for AL developers
    https://github.com/packtpublishing/mastering-microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78995-265-0
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2019 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2019
    Language: English
    Pages: 770
    Related subjects:
    Computer sciences,
    Computer sciences, other

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