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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789951257
Pages 770 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Stefano Demiliani Stefano Demiliani
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Duilio Tacconi Duilio Tacconi
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Dynamics 365 Business Central - Platform Overview and the Basics of Modern Development
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Overview Mastering a Modern Development Environment Online and Container-Based Sandboxes Section 2: Developing Extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Extension Development Fundamentals Developing a Customized Solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central Advanced AL Development Report Development with AL Section 3: Debugging, Testing, and Release Management (DevOps)
Installing and Upgrading Extensions Debugging Automated Test Development with AL Source Control Management and DevOps with Business Central Section 4: Advanced Integrations with Dynamics 365 Business Central
Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs Serverless Business Processes with Business Central and Azure Monitoring, Scaling, and CI/CD with Azure Functions Business Central and Integration with the Power Platform Section 5: Moving Solutions to the New Extension Model
Integrating Machine Learning into Dynamics 365 Business Central Moving Existing ISV Solutions to the New Extension Model Useful and Proficient Tools for AL Developers Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Azure DevOps Pipelines

Because the life cycle of business case apps is short and the cadence with which you are deploying new versions should be much higher than in the past (before the AL era), you cannot build, test, and deploy the app manually.

To automate this part of the life cycle, you can use Azure DevOps Pipelines, which will build, test, and deploy for you. You feed the pipeline on one side with the source code you are producing, and at the other end, you have a tested application, which can be even automatically delivered or deployed. Right now, there are two types of pipeline:

  • Build pipeline: The input is the source code, and the output is the application and other artifacts.
  • Release pipeline: The input is the output produced by the build pipeline, and the output is a tested application delivered or deployed to selected places.

The plan is...

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