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Utilize Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central’s most recent capabilities to create bespoke business management solutions using best practices learned along the way from veterans in the industry.
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Key Features
Extend Business Central’s functionalities through Azure, Power Platform, GitHub, and custom extensions
Unlock the potential of data exchange and functionality expansion by integrating with external systems using APIs and OData
Build reliable, maintainable, and continuously improving solutions while writing performant, well-structured code and using telemetries and DevOps
Book DescriptionThis book dives straight into guiding you through the process of building real-world solutions with the AL language and Visual Studio Code. It emphasizes best practices and extensibility patterns to ensure your extensions are well-structured, maintainable, and meet the needs of modern businesses. You’ll learn advanced AL techniques, report creation methods, debugging strategies, and how to leverage telemetries for monitoring. Additionally, it covers performance optimization practices and API integration to help you create efficient and interconnected solutions.
With a focus on extension development, this new edition allows you to jump right into coding without spending time on setup processes. This book introduces new chapters covering essential tasks that Business Central developers frequently encounter, such as file handling and printing management. Finally, the book expands its scope by including chapters on various integration aspects, including VS Code extensions, GitHub DevOps, Azure services, and Power Platform integrations. We’ll wrap up by covering Copilot capabilities in Business Central and how you can create your own generative AI copilots. By mastering these concepts and techniques, you’ll be well-equipped to create powerful and customized solutions that extend the capabilities of Dynamics 365 Business Central.What you will learn
Developing a customized solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Writing performant code following extensibility patterns
Handling reporting, files, and printing on a cloud environment
Handling Business Central telemetries with Azure
Writing APIs and integrations for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Applying DevOps and CI/CD to development projects by using GitHub
Integrating Business Central with Power Platform
Publishing your solutions to AppSource marketplace
Manage Copilot capabilities and create your own generative AI copilot
Who this book is forThis book is intended for new developers who want to get started with Dynamics 365 Business Central. Professionals with expertise will also benefit from this book by enhancing their knowledge and comprehension of Dynamics 365 Business Central development platform and best practices
Author Biography
Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft MVP on Business Applications and Azure, MCT, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Azure Certified Architect, and an expert in other Microsoft related technologies. His main activity is architecting and developing enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (mainly focused on ERP and serverless applications). He has worked with Packt Publishing on many IT books related to Azure cloud applications and Dynamics 365 Business Central and is a frequent speaker at IT conferences around Europe.
In his free time Stefano is also a runner and a cyclist. Duilio Tacconi is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Escalation Engineer at Microsoft EMEA Customer Support & Services (CSS). He joined Microsoft in 2008 after working in a customer IT department with a focus on system administration and development.
Despite graduating with the highest score in Agricultural Science in 1996, he is in the ERP circuit since 1998 as developer and system implementer for several companies with Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies.
Currently, he is a subject matter expert in EMEA for RDLC Report development and one of Microsoft EMEA CSS reference for Managed Service for Partners (MSfP).
Three times IronMan finisher, Duilio lives in Cernusco Sul Naviglio (Italy) with his beloved wife Laura and his 2 years old son Leonardo.
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