Setting Up Project for D365 Finance And Operation

 

To develop the Microsoft Dynamics 365  Finance and Operation application, you need a development environment. In this article, you will learn how to create project in VS for D365 development. Before going into deep, If you don't have a development vm, follow the steps to access free vm how to configure a free VM for D365 F/O.

Setting Up Project For Dynamics 365 

Whenever a developer needs to add functionality in Microsoft Dynamics 365 For finance and operation, the first step is to create the project. Now, Let's discuss how to create a project for D365 in Visual Studio.

Prerequisites

Visual Studio IDE

Before diving into the setup, ensure that you have Visual Studio IDE installed. Run Visual Studio as an administrator to avoid potential errors during project building.


Checking Dynamics 365 Extension

Make sure Visual Studio has the Dynamics 365 extension. Navigate to the Extensions tab, and if the Dynamics365 extension is listed, you're good to go, else you need to get VM which has D365 configured.


Creating a D365 Project in Visual Studio

  1. Open Visual Studio as an administrator.
  2. Select create new project or open existing if you already have project

  3. Enter Finance in the search bar.
  4. Select the Finance operation node in the grid. Then click the Next button
    5. Enter Project name , in this case DemoProject and click Create
   After creation, your project will be visible in the Solution Explorer.

Note : Solution explorer usually located at right side of VS, but if you are not able to locate solution explorer you can open it from Menu -> View -> solution explorer or (Ctrl + Shift + E)




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