Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Build customized business applications with the latest tools in Dynamics 365 Business Central, 6th Edition

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Explore the fundamentals of Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Visual Studio Code development environment with the help of useful examples and case studies Key Features Tailor your applications to best suit the needs of your business Explore the latest features of Business Central with examples curated by industry experts Integrate Business Central features in your applications with this comprehensive guide Book Description Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a full ERP business solution suite with a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These tools can be used to tailor Business Central's in-built applications to support complete management functions for finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. Using a case study approach, this book will introduce you to Dynamics 365 Business Central and Visual Studio Code development tools to help you become a productive Business Central developer. You'll also learn how to evaluate a product's development capabilities and manage Business Central-based development and implementation. You'll explore application structure, the construction of and uses for each object type, and how it all fits together to build apps that meet special business requirements. By the end of this book, you'll understand how to design and develop high-quality software using the Visual Studio Code development environment, the AL language paired with the improved editor, patterns, and features. What you will learn Programming using the AL language in the Visual Studio Code development environment Explore functional design and development using AL How to build interactive pages and learn how to extract data for users How to use best practices to design and develop modifications for new functionality integrated with the standard Business Central software Become familiar with deploying the broad range of components available in a Business Central system Create robust, viable systems to address specific business requirements Who this book is for If you want to learn about Dynamics 365 Business Central's powerful and extensive built-in development capabilities, this is the book for you. ERP consultants and managers of Business Central development will also find this book helpful. Although you aren't expected to have worked with Dynamics Business Central, basic understanding of programming and familiarity with business application software will help you understand the concepts covered in this book. Table of Contents Introduction to Business Central Tables Data Types and Fields Pages - The Interactive Interface Queries and Reports Introduction to AL Intermediate AL Advanced AL Development Tools Successful Conclusions Review: Useful! - We’ve been looking for a easy to follow guide book to use for starting up with Business Central and this book was exactly up for the task and easy to follow Review: Bad editing obscures useful information - It's clear that there's a lot of expert knowledge that went into this book. Unfortunately, it seems that they spent so much money on their AL experts that they didn't have any left over for writers or editors. There is little structure to the book. We learn about Table Triggers hundreds of pages before we learn what we can do with them, or why we might want to do anything with them. There's no discussion of the actual structure of the AL language; instead, we end up retyping page after page of abstruse code without actually understanding any of it. Practical lessons are interspersed with long sections describing features. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be much in the way of a connection between the two. Page after page of rote copying of code is followed by an academic discussion of different uses of tables, with very little reference to the tables we were just creating. The explanation of *why* we were creating the tables and fields in question gets lost in the shuffle. And that's not counting the blatant errors in the book. Screen shots show the wrong thing. Table names change part way through without warning. Common problems, like being unable to download the symbols, are not mentioned. You're told to use features that simply don't exist in the program you're using; it takes extensive research to discover that they're actually talking about using a feature of a completely *different* application, and didn't bother to mention it. In Chapter 3, for example, we've been doing the standard rote retyping of flowfield properties into Visual Studio Code, when the book describes an error message that does not appear in VSCode. We're told to press F11 to compile; in VSCode, F11 switches to full screen mode. It was only reading another review of the book that I discovered this is a feature of a completely different application, C/SIDE. It seems that this book is the only one on the market, and to be fair it *does* have a lot of useful information in it. But go in prepared for a slog.