Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central 2nd Edition

About this book

This 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.

Table of contents

  1. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central’s Online Momentum
  2. Mastering a Modern Development Environment
  3. Extension Development Fundamentals
  4. Developing a Customized Solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central
  5. Writing code for extensibility
  6. Advanced AL development
  7. Handling files with Dynamics 365 Business Central
  8. Report Development
  9. Printing
  10. Debugging
  11. Telemetry
  12. Coding for performance
  13. Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs
  14. Extending Dynamics 365 Business Central with Azure services
  15. Applying DevOps in AL extension’s development with AL-Go for GitHub
  16. Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power Platform integration
  17. Useful and Proficient Tools for AL Developers
  18. Creating Generative AI solutions for Dynamics 365 Business Central