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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

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Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789347463

Pages 224 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (2):

Stefano Demiliani

Duilio Tacconi

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview

The New Extension Model

Modern Development Environment Overview

Creating Your Development Sandbox

Developing an Extension with AL and VS Code

Deploying Extensions

Integration and Serverless Processing

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Azure Functions

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service offered by the Azure platform for running on-demand and event-driven code in the cloud. Azure Functions are actually the only way to run .NET code in the Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud platform (SaaS).

You can use an Azure Functions to migrate your existing on-premises .NET code to the cloud. An Azure Functions can be written directly via the Azure Portal (Create a Resource | Function App) or by using Visual Studio (with the Azure development tools installed). This second way is the recommended way if you want to have intellisense and automatic deployment.

To start creating an Azure Functions with Visual Studio, start a new project and select Cloud | Azure Functions, give a name to your project, and click OK.

You can now select Azure Functions v1(.NET Framework) or Azure Functions v2 Preview (.NET Standard). Here, we select the v1 version (v2 is for .NET Core and it's currently in preview).

Now Visual Studio asks you to choose...

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Authors (2)

Stefano Demiliani

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.

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Duilio Tacconi

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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