Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

This framework is very well designed, especially in terms of how to integrate with it.

There are four main steps, and the pattern is virtually the same for all business events we create:

1. Create a data contract class that extends BusinessEventsContract.
2. Create an interaction class to simplify its creation.

3. Create the business events class that extends BusinesEventsBase and can instantiate from a caller (usually a record).
4. Create a class to handle the application event via a delegate subscription or an extension.

The data contract we created was the payload that the business event will process. The data contract has some additional attributes that tell the framework how to read the data contract. This is for the purposes ...