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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
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- Sprache: Englisch
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the new SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. This latest version has many exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. This book is an ideal guide to Dynamics 365 Business Central and will help you get started with implementing and designing solutions for real-world scenarios.
This book will take you through the fundamental topics for implementing solutions based on Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premise and SaaS). We'll see the core topics of the new development model (based on extensions) and we'll see how to create applications with the new Microsoft ERP proposition.
The book begins by explaining the basics of Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft ERP proposition. We will then cover topics such as extensions, the new modern development model of Visual studio code, sandboxes, Docker, and many others.
By the end of the book, you will have learned how to debug and compile extensions and to deploy them to the cloud and on-premise.You will also have learned how to create serverless business processes for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide
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Contributors
About the authors
Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft MVP on business applications, a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, and a long-time expert on different Microsoft technologies.
He has a master's degree in Computer Engineering from Politecnico of Turin, he works as a CTO for EID/Navlab (one of the main Microsoft Partners in Italy), and he has recently moved many customers around the globe onto the cloud.
He has worked with Packt Publishing on many IT books, and he's the author of Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV (a hands-on guide on building enterprise architectures based on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP and Azure) and Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns. You can reach him on Twitter (@demiliani) or on LinkedIn.
Duilio Tacconi is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Escalation Engineer at Microsoft EMEA Customer Support and Services (CSS). He joined Microsoft in 2008 after working in a
customer IT department with a focus primarily on system administration and development.
Despite graduating with the highest score in Agricultural Science in 1996, he has been on the ERP circuit since 1998 as a developer and a system implementer for several companies with Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies.
Currently, he is a SME at EMEA and one of Microsoft EMEA CSS references for Managed Service for Partners
Three times Iron Man finisher, Duilio lives in Cernusco Sul Naviglio (Italy) with his beloved wife, Laura, and his son, Leonardo.
About the reviewers
In 1999, Luc van Vugt stepped into the NAV world, training hundreds of developers, most of whom are still around.
After Microsoft acquired Navision, Luc joined the Dynamics localization team GDL as tester, UA specialist, and project lead. For 6 years, he was involved with all successive releases.
Since he left Microsoft, Luc has become an active community member by means of his blog, co-founder of the Dutch Dynamics Community, and a speaker at conferences. In 2014, he co-founded NAV Skills supporting NAV pros around the globe with, among others, webinars. Luc has also been awarded MS MVP since 2011.
In 2012, Luc started fluxxus.nl, doing miscellaneous projects including NAV development courses and workshops on design patterns and automated testing.
Eric is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions and Cloud Ready Software. With his 18 years of technical expertise, he is an everyday inspiration to its development teams. As development manager, he continually acts upon the technical readiness of iFacto and CRS.Apart from that, Eric is also very active in the NAV community, where he tries to solve technical issues and shares his knowledge with other Dynamics enthusiasts. Surely, many among you will have read some of Eric’s posts, which he invariably signs with waldo. Lots of people have been using and even contributing to tools he shares for free on GitHub.His proven track record entitled him to be awarded since 2007 as Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional).
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide
Packt Upsell
Why subscribe?
PacktPub.com
Contributors
About the authors
About the reviewers
Packt is searching for authors like you
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Download the example code files
Download the color images
Conventions used
Get in touch
Reviews
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview
Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
A brief history of the Microsoft Dynamics cloud-based ERP SMB product
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Architecture
On-premises versus cloud-based deployment
Infrastructure costs, maintenance, and availability
Security
Performances
Scalability
Upgrades
Customizations
User experience
Summary 
The New Extension Model
Traditional Microsoft Dynamics NAV customizations
Triggers versus Events
The new Extensions 2.0 model
Running C/SIDE and AL side by side
Scalable and SaaS-ready solutions
Summary
Modern Development Environment Overview
Modern versus classic development environments
Characteristics and advantages of CSIDE
Characteristics and advantages of Visual Studio Code
Anatomy of Visual Studio Code workspace
Menu bar
View bar
Sidebar
Code editor
Status bar
Tips to work efficiently in Visual Studio Code
The AL Extension
Comparison of capabilities supported by CSIDE and Visual Studio Code
Getting started with AL language
Developing your first extension with AL language
HelloWorld.al sample
AL snippets
Creating our own snippets
Native AL source-code management with Git
Visual Studio Code support to Git
Summary
Creating Your Development Sandbox
What is a sandbox?
Online sandbox
Azure-hosted sandbox
Local-hosted sandbox
Manually creating a sandbox based on Docker
Steps for manually creating a locally hosted Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox
Steps for manually creating an Azure Container Instance-based Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox
Summary
Developing an Extension with AL and VS Code
The business case
Developing the extension
Creating the new tables
Creating the pages for the new tables
Extending standard Dynamics 365 Business Central objects (tables and pages)
Writing the custom business logic (Codeunit)
Handling translations with XLIFF files
Customizing the Headline
Developing a custom report for our extension
Extension dependency
Installing and upgrading codeunits
Summary
Deploying Extensions
What does extension deployment mean?
Automatic deployment
Semi-automatic deployment
Publishing
Syncronizing
Installing
Manual deployment
AL debugger
AL CodeCop
Summary
Integration and Serverless Processing
Dynamics 365 Business Central web services
Dynamics 365 Business Central REST APIs
DotNet variables
Azure Functions
Microsoft Flow
Microsoft PowerApps
Summary
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Preface
With the release of Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft has changed the world of the traditional ERP. Now we have an ERP platform that's totally integrated with the Office 365 ecosystem and able to work in the cloud (SaaS) and on-premise. Dynamics 365 Business Central is a big change also in the programming model: now we have extensions and a completely new platform for development.
This book aims to be a guide on developing and deploying solutions with Dynamics 365 Business Central. It covers all the essentials of extensions development and all you need in order to create your solutions on the new ERP platform.
By the end of this book, you will have mastered Dynamics 365 Business Central solution development.
Who this book is for
The target audience of this book is essentially the following:
Dynamics 365 Business Central solution developers
IT solution architects (mainly involved in implementing ERP solutions based on the Dynamics 365 Business Central platform)
Designers of business applications
This book assumes that the readers have a working knowledge of the C/AL language and that they are able to developing solutions with C/AL and C/SIDE. A basic knowledge of C#, Visual Studio, web services, and REST protocols will be useful.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview, introduces the readers to the new Microsoft SaaS ERP platform. It explains the new architecture, how it differs from the on-premise traditional ERP proposition, and the benefits of adopting a completely cloud solution.
Chapter 2, The New Extension Model, explains the basic concepts of the new development framework for Dynamics 365 Business Central (triggers, events), describes how it differs from the traditional programming model based on C/AL, and introduces the new concept of apps.
Chapter 3, Modern Development Environment Overview, describes the new programming platform for Dynamics 365 Business Central based on Visual Studio Code and the AL extension, with tips on how to customize your development environment to be more proficient when programming and how to configure the environment for developing your first extension.
Chapter 4, Creating Your Development Sandbox, introduces the concept of Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox environments (cloud-based or Docker-based), introduces the concept of Docker containers, and explains how to create an environment for developing solutions with Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Chapter 5, Developing an Extension with AL and Visual Studio Code, describes how to develop a complete solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central by using the new AL language and Visual Studio Code. Starting from a business scenario, we develop a complete solution that creates new objects and extends the standard functionalities of Microsoft's ERP. Programming rules and many architectural concepts, such as dependencies, will be explained in this chapter.
Chapter 6, Deploying Extensions, describes how to deploy and debug an extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central. You will see how to debug AL code from Visual Studio Code and how to publish an extension in a sandbox environment or in a production environment.
Chapter 7, Integration and Serverless Processing, describes how to integrate an external solution with Dynamics 365 Business Central (by using REST API or web services), how to create service-oriented solutions with AL, and how to use other Dynamics 365 products, such as Flow and PowerApps, to create business applications that work with Dynamics 365 Business Central.
To get the most out of this book
The readers should have a basic knowledge of the C/AL language and the old Microsoft Dynamics ERP platform (Dynamics NAV).
The readers should have a trial version of Dynamics 365 Business Central. A trial version can be activated by going to https://trials.dynamics.com/Dynamics365/Signup/BusinessCentral.
The readers should have Visual Studio Code installed on their local machine. Visual Studio Code can be downloaded from the following link: https://code.visualstudio.com/download.
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Conventions used
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docker ps
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application delivered with the Software as a Service (SaaS) model through Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) certified partners.
It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite (the Microsoft proposition for a new generation of intelligent and integrated business applications) that includes in its portfolio Customer RelationshipManagement (CRM) and ERP software.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
What Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is, what functional areas it covers, and its prices
A history of the Microsoft ERP offering evolution for small to medium-sized businesses, (SMB) in the cloud
An overview of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central architecture
On-premises versus SaaS-based deployments
Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
The current Microsoft Dynamics 365 family portfolio could be described as follows.
Here is some information regarding the ERP cloud-based version:
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
: This targets small to medium-sized businesses. The product has a solid and strong Microsoft Azure footprint. Its application and some core technologies come from a streamlined evolution of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This has been a well-known market leader in the SMB ERP software segment
for the last 30 years
.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials & Operations
: This targets enterprise businesses. It represents the transformation equivalent of another historical Microsoft product: Microsoft Dynamics AX.
CRM cloud-based and specific ERP modules offer the following:
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Customer Service
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Project Automation
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Retail
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing
For each of these products, Microsoft provides partner and customer full official documentation at the following link: https://dynamics.microsoft.com/.
