Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer Course (MB-820T00)

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$2,995.00 USD

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5 Days

 

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Course Overview

How do leading organizations customize, automate, and future-proof their business solutions? By harnessing the power of Dynamics 365 Business Central. In this immersive five-day course, you’ll learn to develop, extend, and integrate Business Central apps, optimize code, and automate workflows using AL, Power Platform, and Azure.

Go beyond basic customizations, design new modules, manage performance, and seamlessly connect Business Central to other Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 tools. With hands-on labs and real-world projects, you’ll gain the skills to troubleshoot, upgrade, and secure business-critical environments. This course also prepares you for official Microsoft certification, setting you apart as a sought-after developer in a rapidly growing market.

What Is Included

  • 5 days of expert, instructor-led training
  • Official Microsoft courseware and supplemental materials
  • Hands-on labs and real-world exercises
  • Certificate of completion
  • 90 days of class recordings for review (where available)
  • Flexible rescheduling options and guaranteed-to-run dates (when marked)
  • Free rescheduling options (see conditions)
  • Free retake options (see conditions)

Course Objectives

This course prepares you for certification and enables you to confidently contribute to Business Central development projects. You’ll learn to:

  • Develop and extend apps using AL and Visual Studio Code for Business Central
  • Integrate Business Central with Microsoft Power Platform and Azure
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize Business Central performance
  • Manage upgrades, data migration, and system maintenance
  • Implement secure user access, permissions, and lifecycle management
  • Prepare for the Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer certification exam

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for developers, software engineers, solution architects, technical consultants, and technical advisors aiming to create, extend, or support Business Central solutions. It’s ideal for professionals seeking to deepen their technical expertise, build new modules, automate business processes, or connect Business Central with other Microsoft platforms.

  • Top-rated instructors: Our crew of subject matter experts have an average instructor rating of 4.8 out of 5 across thousands of reviews.
  • Authorized content: We maintain more than 35 Authorized Training Partnerships with the top players in tech, ensuring your course materials contain the most relevant and up-to date information.
  • Interactive classroom participation: Our virtual training includes live lectures, demonstrations and virtual labs that allow you to participate in discussions with your instructor and fellow classmates to get real-time feedback.
  • Post Class Resources: Review your class content, catch up on any material you may have missed or perfect your new skills with access to resources after your course is complete.
  • Private Group Training: Let our world-class instructors deliver exclusive training courses just for your employees. Our private group training is designed to promote your team’s shared growth and skill development.
  • Tailored Training Solutions: Our subject matter experts can customize the class to specifically address the unique goals of your team.

What is the MB-820 Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer course overview? Is it worth it?

The MB-820 course teaches you how to design, extend, and integrate solutions in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. It’s especially valuable for developers and technical consultants aiming to advance their expertise. Certified Business Central developers often earn $90,000–$120,000 annually, making this training a strong career investment.

Is this course part of the certification path for the Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer Associate? Will it prepare me for the MB-820 exam?

Yes. The MB-820 course is directly tied to the certification path for the Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer Associate. It covers all exam objectives and provides hands-on practice so you can prepare thoroughly and achieve certification.

How does this course help developers work with AppSource, Dynamics 365, and user experience improvements?

You’ll learn to build, test, and publish apps to AppSource, integrate solutions with Dynamics 365 services, and improve user experience by customizing workflows and interfaces in Business Central.

Will this course help me migrate data and manage upgrades?

Yes. This course provides hands-on experience with data transfer, upgrade codeunits, and lifecycle management so you can confidently handle data migration and manage system upgrades in real-world developer roles.

Learning Credits: Learning Credits can be purchased well in advance of your training date to avoid having to commit to specific courses or dates. Learning Credits allow you to secure your training budget for an entire year while eliminating the administrative headache of paying for individual classes. They can also be redeemed for a full year from the date of purchase. If you have previously purchased a Learning Credit agreement with New Horizons, you may use a portion of your agreement to pay for this class.

If you have questions about Learning Credits, please contact your Account Manager.

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Course Prerequisites

  • A Dynamics 365 Business Central developer must have applied knowledge of Business Central and an understanding of industry terminology.
  • The developer also must have applied knowledge of administration, the development environment, and tools for developing extensions and customizations in Business Central.
  • The developer's knowledge should include a comprehensive understanding of the Business Central application's role in relationship to the Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 suites of applications.
  • A developer should have knowledge of AppSource and technologies for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Source Control Management (SCM), Azure, and Business Central-related technologies, frameworks, and services to build solutions.

Agenda

1 - Start your free Dynamics 365 Business Central trial

  • Sign in to Business Central
  • Use a demo database
  • Start a trial with your own data
  • Extend your trial and subscribe or unsubscribe your organization

2 - Introduction to the capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Identify available subscription types for Business Central
  • Explore the relationship management functionality
  • Use Dynamics 365 Sales with Business Central
  • Discover supply chain management capabilities
  • Process and administer the purchase cycle
  • Process and administer the sales cyclev
  • Send documents to customers
  • Explore how to administer jobs
  • Discover service management capabilities
  • Business Central manufacturing capabilities
  • Business Central Human Resources capabilities
  • In Microsoft 365 experience for Business Central

3 - Customize Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Introduction - Cloud architecture for Business Central
  • Tailor, extend, and build applications

4 - Prepare for an easy application upgrade experience in Business Central

  • Understand upgrade responsibilities and best practices
  • Consider the update lifecycle
  • Create proper installation and upgrade codeunits
  • Transfer data between tables using DataTransfer
  • Manage apps
  • Detect and avoid breaking changes
  • Frequently asked questions about updating your Business Central App

5 - Administer Dynamics 365 Business Central online

  • Introduction - Get started with the Cloud Solution Provider program
  • Extend a trial for a customer
  • Access the administration center
  • Manage sandbox and production environments
  • Set up tenant notifications
  • Inspect environment telemetry and troubleshoot issues
  • Export databases
  • Enable features
  • Monitoring and analyzing telemetry
  • Analyze performance using the In-client performance profiler
  • Work with the Performance Toolkit extension
  • Configure a BCPT suite
  • Use APIs for automation and administration

6 - Manage users and implement security in Business Central

  • Introduction - Add users
  • Create user groups
  • Implement permissions and permission sets
  • Configure user access times and logging
  • Understand users, profiles, and role centers
  • Perform user-specific setup
  • Auditing changes

7 - Introduction to the development environment for Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Get started with Visual Studio Code
  • Install the AL language extension in Visual Studio Code
  • Discover the logical database and its objects
  • Differentiate the base app and the system app
  • Create a new Business Central extension in Visual Studio Code
  • Work with JSON configuration files
  • Configure the AL language extension
  • Manage multiple AL extensions in one workspace

8 - Debug and deploy your extension in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Debug your extension with Visual Studio Code
  • Use attach and debug with attach configurations
  • Implement snapshot debugging
  • Work with Rapid Application Development
  • Publish and install an extension
  • Set Resource Exposure Policy settings
  • Configure projects and workspaces
  • Use AL code actions
  • Work with the Business Central Performance Toolkit
  • Use Database Wait Statistics

9 - Work with pages in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Get started with pages
  • Identify different page types
  • Configure the different page properties
  • Build a page layout by using controls
  • Link pages with page parts
  • Use snippets in Visual Studio Code to create pages
  • Set different control properties
  • Enable users to search for a page
  • Define actions on a page and its properties

10 - Design the data model of a report in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Create report data items and their properties
  • Add columns to a report dataset
  • Link, order, and indent data items
  • Use a query to create a report dataset

11 - Work with codeunits in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Create and access a codeunit

12 - Work with XMLports in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Get started with XMLports
  • Configure different XMLport properties
  • Define nodes and their properties
  • Design XMLports
  • Create an XMLport by using snippets in Visual Studio Code
  • Use XMLports in AL code

13 - Work with entitlements and permission sets in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Get started with entitlements and permissions
  • Create entitlements and permission sets
  • Override entitlements with inherent permissions

14 - Work with queries in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Get started with queries
  • Create a query in Visual Studio Code
  • Join data in queries
  • Filter data in queries
  • Aggregate and sort data in a query
  • Access queries from AL
  • Advanced query concepts

15 - Build control add-in objects in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Apply the Business Central look and feel
  • Build a control add-in for Business Central
  • Asynchronous considerations for control add-ins
  • Connect control add-ins with Azure Functions

16 - Customize the UI experience in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Add objects to search
  • Create page customizations
  • Create profiles in application language
  • Use and create views in application language
  • Extend application areas

17 - Identify functional table types and characteristics in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Define the different functional table types and characteristics
  • Create master tables
  • Create supplemental tables
  • Create subsidiary tables
  • Create ledger tables
  • Create register tables
  • Create journal tables
  • Create document tables
  • Create setup tables

18 - Introduction to the basics of AL programming in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Get started with application language
  • Work with identifiers, syntax, and variables
  • Discover intrinsic data types
  • Options and enums
  • Work with collections
  • Use assignments and type conversions
  • Define different expression types

19 - Learn about application performance and monitoring in Business Central

  • Prepare your application for optimal performance
  • Get essential Application Insights

20 - Work with source control using Git in Visual Studio Code for Business Central

  • Configure Git
  • Compare and contrast local and remote repositories
  • Create a local Git repository
  • Use the .gitignore file
  • Add and remove files in Git
  • Get the status of your Git repository
  • Use a remote Git repository
  • Clone a remote Git repository
  • Work with a remote Git Repository

21 - Use Application Lifecycle Management for Business Central

  • Create an Azure DevOps organization
  • Manage Azure DevOps Projects
  • Introduction to Azure DevOps Services
  • Connect to Azure DevOps via Personal Access Tokens
  • Introduction to GitHub

22 - Introduction to test automation in Business Central

  • Test applications in Business Central
  • Install and run the Test Toolkit
  • Run the standard tests
  • Create your own test codeunits with a test app

23 - Use Power Automate with Business Central

  • Explore Business Central triggers in Power Automate
  • Create a Power Automate flow from scratch
  • Create customer, vendor and item approvals in Power Automate
  • Create approvals in a general journal with Power Automate
  • Create documents approvals with Power Automate
  • Create Power Automate flows for different business scenarios
  • Create a button or instant flow in Power Automate
  • Run a Power Automate flow on a schedule
  • Troubleshoot and monitor flows

24 - Access REST services from within Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Use the different HTTP classes and their functions
  • Get data from and send data to an external REST service
  • Use and read JSON in Business Central
  • Get JSON data from external REST services

25 - Use Azure Functions with Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Create basic Azure functions
  • Create an Azure function
  • Use an Azure function in Business Central

26 - Work with web services in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Define differences between SOAP, OData, REST, and API
  • Web service authentication
  • Enable access to OData web services
  • Work with different OData return documents
  • Request records with OData
  • Work with OData query options
  • Create new records with OData
  • Update records with OData
  • Use SOAP web services
  • Request records with SOAP
  • Handle UI interaction when working with web services

27 - Work with the API in Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Access Business Central API
  • Tips for working with APIs
  • Work with API limits
  • Create new APIs
  • Read, create, and update by using API
  • API and OData bound actions
 

Upcoming Class Dates and Times

Oct 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
ENROLL $2,995.00 USD
Weekday Sessions /
Virtual: Online - CST
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