Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Develop customized solutions, choose the right architecture and learn advanced integration and serverless business processes

A comprehensive guide on all-in-one business management solution that helps to grow your business

About This Book

• Explore a full suite of application functionality in the cloud
• Understand the modern user experience, optimized for insights and productivity
• Learn Dynamics 365 Business Central, the next generation of Dynamics NAV

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers who want to develop and strengthen their Dynamics 365 Business Central skills. Whether you are a new developer or a more experienced professional, this book will enhance your knowledge and understanding of the features of Dynamics 365 Business Central.

What You Will Learn

• How to create a Sandbox environment with Dynamics 365 Business Central for development
• How to handle source control management when developing solutions for Dynamics 365 Business Central
• How to handle extension's testing, debugging and deployment
• Create real-world business processes by using Dynamics 365 Business Central and different Azure services.
• Integrate Dynamics 365 Business Central with external applications
• Moving existing solutions to the new extension-based architecture

In Detail

Dynamics 365 Business Central is all-in-one business management solution which is easy to adapt helping you connect your business and make smarter decisions.This book aims to be a complete guide for developing solutions with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premise and on-cloud). It covers all aspects of developing extensions with Visual Studio Code and AL , from preparing a sandbox environment to deploy a complete solution.

The book starts with an introduction of the Dynamics 365 Business Central proposition and architecture (cloud and on premise) and the new Modern Development Environment, with focus on architecture and technical aspects. Then we introduce the concept of “sandbox” and we'll see how to create sandboxes for development (local or on cloud). In the central part of this book, we'll develop a complete advanced solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central with AL and Visual Studio Code. After the development phase, we'll see how to debug and deploy the extension and how to write automatic testing.

We will cover also advanced topics like integration, cloud services and serverless processing (with Azure Functions, web services and APIs) and we'll see scenarios of using Dynamics 365 Business Central with Office 365 apps like Power BI, Flow and Powerapps.

The book ends with an “architectural” topic by analyzing the best ways of moving existing solutions to the new development model based on extensions.