Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: The complete guide for designing and integrating advanced Business Central solutions
Author:Stefano Demiliani (Author), Duilio Tacconi (Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: Packt Publishing
Publication Date 出版日期: 2024-03-19
Edition 版本: 2nd ed.
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 684 pages
ISBN-10: 183763064X
ISBN-13: 9781837630646
Book Description
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.
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
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 Description
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.
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 for
This 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
Table of Contents
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central’s Online Momentum
- Mastering a Modern Development Environment
- Extension Development Fundamentals
- Developing a Customized Solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Writing Code for Extensibility
- Advanced AL Development
- Handling Files with Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Report Development
- Printing
- Debugging
- Telemetry
- Coding for Performance
- Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs
- Extending Dynamics 365 Business Central with Azure Services
- DevOps for Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power Platform Integration
(N.B. Please use the Look Inside option to see further chapters)
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers practical insights and guidance applicable to real-world projects, covering topics such as AI, debugging solutions, and DevOps. The book includes business cases and a focus on emerging technologies like Generative AI (GenAI), providing actionable advice for Dynamics 365 solutions.”
Scott Anderson Distinguished Solution Architect, Verizon
“Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Second Edition covers the basics of D365 BC, such as installing and using the new Visual Studio environment, and goes into deep details of advanced programming topics, such as Copilot and AI. I found the book very useful in my transition from the old C/AL and the classic development environment to the new AL and Visual Studio.
Although the book may appear to target mainly experienced developers, other roles such as Functional Consultants or Implementors with basic programming skills will find it interesting and helpful to improve their solution design skills or to support customers. It helps that the author considered explaining the basics as well, since they’re not always obvious, especially for readers who do not work as full-time developers. The code and image bundles supplied with the book can be downloaded and, in my view, are essential to study the book.
I would recommend this book either if you would like to get skilled in D365 BC programming or if you would just like to keep up to date.”
Raúl Canelada, Senior Consultant Dynamics NAV / 365 Business Central
About the Author
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 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.
