Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook: Create and extend real-world solutions using Dynamics 365 Operations

Have the best tools at your fingertips to extend and maximize the efficiency of your business management

About This Book

• Follow practical and easy-to-grasp examples, illustrations and coding to make the most out of Dynamics 365 for Operations in your business scenario
• Extend Dynamics 365 for Operations in a cost-effective manner by using tools you already have
• Solve common business problems with the valuable features of Dynamics 365 for Operations

Who This Book Is For

This book is for those who are getting to grips with Dynamics 365 for Operations developers or those migrating from C# development. The guide includes information essential for new and experienced Dynamics 365 for Operations developers.

What You Will Learn

• Create enumerated and extended data types
• Understand the importance of using patterns and frameworks while creating a unique concept for your solution
• Service and deploy your code and packages to improve performance
• Write and perform unit tests to automate the testing process
• Design your security model and policies to provide code access privileges
• Construct the UI and business logic to add Power BI to dashboards

In Detail

Dynamics 365 for Operations is the ERP element of Microsoft's new Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition. Operations delivers the infrastructure to allow businesses to achieve growth and make better decisions using scalable and contemporary ERP system tools.

This book provides a collection of "recipes" to instruct you on how to create-and extend-a real-world solution using Operations. All key aspects of the new release are covered, and insights into the development language, structure, and tools are discussed in detail.

New concepts and patterns that are pivotal to elegant solution designs are introduced and explained, and readers will learn how to extend various aspects of the system to enhance both the usability and capabilities of Operations. Together, this gives the reader important context regarding the new concepts and the confidence to reuse in their own solution designs.

This "cookbook" provides the ingredients and methods needed to maximize the efficiency of your business management using the latest in ERP software-Dynamics 365 for Operations.

Style and approach

The book takes a practical recipe-based approach, focusing on real-world scenarios and giving you all the information you need to build a strong Dynamics 365 for Operations implementation.

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 for Operations since its earliest incarnations, starting out as a consultant and developer in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 for Operations was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. He quickly became a team leader at Columbus IT Partners and carried out one of the first Axapta implementations in the UK before joining a new reseller, Sense Enterprise Solutions, as its technical director. Sense Enterprise Solutions enjoyed a global reach through the AxPact alliance, where Simon was placed as AxPact's Technical Lead.

Simon played a major role in growing the company into a successful Microsoft partner and was the Technical Lead on a number of highly challenging technical projects around the world, ranging from the UK, to Bahrain, to the USA. These projects include developing solutions for third-party logistics, multichannel retail, and eventually developing an animal feed vertical, as well as integrating Dynamics 365 for Operations into production control systems, government gateways, and e-commerce solutions, among others. Now, working with Binary Consultants, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 for Operations implementation with support from Microsoft as part of the Community Technical Preview program (CTP). The knowledge gained as part of this process led to the creation of this book.

Simon has also worked on Mastering Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Programming and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Administration Cookbook.