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Simon Buxton
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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
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Creating a new package and model

When creating a new project, we usually create a new package and a new model. This keeps things simple, and there is usually no benefit in separating them. You may wish to create a test project in a different model in the same solution, but you may not wish to deploy the test projects to live.

There are two types of projects:

  • An extension project
  • An over-layer project

Over-layering means modifying the source code of SCM and requires a code upgrade for each application hotfix. Extension projects work on delta changes to the standard object or use delegates to affect code execution. Extension projects are less likely to require a code upgrade when application hotfixes are applied. Avoiding over-layering cannot be overstated because, at the time of writing, all Microsoft supplier packages are locked. The ability to write good code through extension...

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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Mar 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838643812

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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
Read more about Simon Buxton