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Your developers are building extensions on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
They work in development. They break in production.
They’re not writing bad code. They’re writing code without understanding how Business Central’s cloud architecture is supposed to work. This bootcamp teaches your developers to build extensions that are upgrade-safe, production-ready, and built to last.
Duration
10 days · 4 hours per day
Format
Instructor-led, hands-on sessions
Audience
Developers and technical teams building on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Delivery
Private cohorts, remote or on-site
Prerequisite
OOP language proficiency and basic understanding of business processes
What you will achieve
Four capabilities your team leaves with.
Upgrade-safe extensions. Production-grade integrations. Background processes that scale. And the judgment to know when not to write AL at all.
Extensions built using the AL Event-Driven model. Fully decoupled from the Microsoft Base App. Update-ready on every release.
Custom APIs and integrations connecting Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to external systems. Built for high-volume production load, not just development environments.
Background processes and job queues handling heavy workloads without freezing the user interface or generating support tickets.
Power Platform embedded where AL isn’t needed. Less custom code. Faster delivery. Fewer upgrade risks.
Course curriculum
10 days. Built around how the platform actually behaves.
Every session is drawn from real Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementations and post-go-live environments. Not textbook examples. Not demo data.
| Day | What this covers | Key topics | What this enables |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 01 | The modern Business Central architecture and VS Code setup | C/AL to AL transition, Extensions 2.0 architecture, VS Code environment setup, launch.json and app.json configuration, Docker and Sandbox provisioning | A local development environment that mirrors production. No configuration surprises when code moves to the tenant. |
| Day 02 | The data foundation: tables and table extensions | Creating Tables, primary keys, fields, and relations, TableExtension objects for standard tables, FlowFields and FlowFilters for real-time data aggregation without complex queries | Custom data structures that are performant, compliant with Microsoft standards, and safe to extend. |
| Day 03 | User interface: pages and page extensions | Page types, UI patterns, PageExtension objects, Role Centers and FactBoxes designed for user productivity | Custom UI that feels native to Business Central. Forms that drive adoption, not frustration. |
| Day 04 | AL business logic and the event-driven model | Codeunits, AL syntax, variables, looping structures, Event Publisher and Subscriber model, finding integration events in standard Microsoft code | Custom business logic injected safely. Company remains 100% update-ready on every Microsoft release. |
| Day 05 | Modern document reporting | Report object dataset, AL report triggers, Word and Excel layout design, moving away from RDLC and SSRS where possible | Business users able to adjust document layouts without raising a development ticket. |
| Day | What this covers | Key topics | What this enables |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 06 | The API economy and web services | ODataV4 and SOAP web services, Custom API Pages and API Queries, consuming external REST APIs via HttpClient in AL | High-performance custom APIs built for high-volume integrations. No performance degradation under production load. |
| Day 07 | Background processing and data migration | Job Queues, background sessions, XMLports for complex file handling, resilient background processes with transient error handling, RapidStart and Configuration Packages for data migration | Background processes that complete without locking the system. Data migrations that land cleanly with no manual correction. |
| Day 08 | Telemetry, Application Insights, and Power Platform | Custom Telemetry instrumentation in AL, SaaS performance analysis in Azure Application Insights, triggering Power Automate via Business Events | Proactive performance monitoring. Bottlenecks identified and resolved before they become support tickets. |
| Day 09 | The capstone: build phase | Building a Quality Control add-on module, custom QC tables, extending the standard Item Receipt process using Event Subscribers, UI pages for the warehouse team, architect review against extensibility best practices | A fully functional module built correctly from the ground up. No shortcuts that will break on the next update. |
| Day 10 | The capstone: integration and deployment | Exposing QC data via a custom API, Power Automate flow alerting the Quality Manager via Teams on failed inspection, packaging the app for deployment, CI/CD pipeline setup, AppSource readiness check | A complete, deployable extension. Your team leaves knowing how to ship code that survives production and review. |
Who this is for
For developers learning to build inside this platform correctly.
This course is for developers already working on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central who need to move from code that works in the sandbox to extensions that hold up in production and survive every Microsoft update.
AL developers and software engineers
Building extensions on Business Central without a deep understanding of the event-driven model or how the cloud architecture handles updates.
Internal IT developers
Supporting Business Central post-go-live, making changes that work in the sandbox and cause problems in production.
Technical leads
Responsible for an extension codebase that needs to survive Microsoft's continuous update cycle. Carrying the risk every time a release drops.
Integration developers
Connecting Business Central to external systems using approaches that hold up in development and fail under production load.
Private cohorts only. Your team works through scenarios built around your actual extension architecture and integration patterns. Remote or on-site. Structured around your delivery timeline.
Why sa.global
Built from implementation experience, not a training manual.
This curriculum was not built from Microsoft documentation. It was built from nearly two decades of implementation delivery and post-go-live support across Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central environments.
Your system, your scenarios
Built around your actual configuration and business processes, not a generic environment.
Practitioners in the room
Every session is run by someone actively working on Microsoft Dynamics 365 engagements. The scenarios they teach came from a project that went live this year.
60+ countries of deployment experience
Active across 60+ countries. Our teams have seen the edge cases that don't appear in documentation and built the courses around them.
Content maintained by implementers
Course content is updated when the product changes. Not on an annual schedule. By the same teams running live implementations.
Every broken extension, every failed integration, every update that took down a customisation in this course came from a real Business Central environment. We diagnosed it. We fixed it. That is what we teach.
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