Dynamics 365 Fo - Development tools support for extensions

 Dynamics 365 FO - Development tools support for extensions

Nghia Song -  Microsoft Dynamics 365 Technical Consultant

Nghia Song

Tel - WhatsApp: +84967324794

Email: songnghia.uit@gmail.com

1. Development tools support

The development tools in Visual Studio provide integrated features to help you create and work with extensions. For example, when you right-click an element name in Application Explorer, you can create an extension for that element.

To create an extension, the current project in Solution Explorer must belong to a model that references the model of the selected element in Application Explorer. To view the model for a particular project, view the project properties.

Visual Studio creates the extension file for you, either in the current project or in a new project. You can then work with the extension file either as source code or by using a designer. You package a code-extension model for deployment exactly like you would package any other model. On the Dynamics 365 menu, point to Deploy, click Create Deployment Package, and then select the check box for the package name.

1. Framework events

Tables, form data sources, form controls, and other element types that support extension events list the available events (and delegates) under an Events collection node. For example, viewing the Events node of a table extension shows events that are defined by the framework, and delegate methods that are defined by application developers.

Note: Events are exposed on the designer on different element and sub-element types, like table events, form events, form data source events, form control events, and others. Open the context menu of an event node to interact with events:

• Copy event handler method: This option copies a method signature to the clipboard. You can paste it in any X++ code editor to define a method that subscribes to the selected event.

Find event handlers: Searches and lists all methods subscribed to the selected event.