Extension/App development in Dynamics 365 Business Central on premises

Business Central/NAV Developers Forum
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Hi All,

Can we develop extension/app in Dynamics 365 Business Central on premises and publish to cloud, instead developing in Azure VM/ Docker Container?

Thanks

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Hi thiyagu,

You can do it, But when you deploy to cloud, need to change settings in launch.json and maybe recode ID’s in objects (this is caused by license limitation between Cloud and On-Premises)

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Yes, this is what I do every day :slight_smile: I am using a local Windows Server 2016 core with Docker installed where I am running a Dyn 365bc onpremise client/ or sandbox version, where i build the code and when fininished I simply copy the files and enable the extension in the cloud.

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Thanks Palle, Still do you need Docker to be installed?

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Hi psice,

Thanks! I understood once we change ID’s 50000 series object’s extension/app can directly published to Cloud, however if our object IDs are unique add-on range, I cannot publish to cloud directly, it has to publish in Microsoft appsource. Is my understanding correct?

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No Docker is not mandatory. You could allways just download an IMAGE, unzip it and install it.

I My case I need to run several builds of a NAV 2016-8 and have every single one of them installed in one windows 10 image simply does not work very well. Docker is a lifesaver in so many ways. You can have the latest version of NAV up and running in the few minutes it takes to pull a versions and start it.

On my machine I can pull any version af NAV2018 or Dyn365bc and get it up and running using docker within 7 minutes withiout any hazzle/difficulties!

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Hi thiyagu,

I’ll try to be more explicit. If you make an extensión to a single tenant on cloud you can still use object range 50000-99999; but if you work in an extensión you want to upload to appsource, you need to rename the id’s in extension objects.