Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

Extensibility in Base Enums

One confusion that occurs in Operations is the terms extend and extension. Extend is the term used where a type, such as a class, table or EDT, extends a parent of the same type. Extension or extensible is used where we can alter an element in another package without modifying the original. When this is done and used correctly, the original author can publish revisions to the package without forcing their customers to merge and update their code, allowing end-user customers more flexibility and enabling them to efficiently stay up to date with updates.

We will cover the extensibility of each type throughout this book, with a particular focus in Chapter 7, Leveraging Extensibility. There is a big difference with ...