Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Apps - Second Edition

Development environment architecture 

As shown in the following diagram, the development environment architecture is powered by the Visual Studio extension called Unified Operations. This extension provides the developer, application explorer, X++ code editor, project system, UI designer, debugger, and other tools to extend existing functionalities and add new functionalities. The source code is stored on the development machine filesystem as XML files and is used by the metadata API of the Visual Studio extension for editing and design. You can use the familiar build process developer to build the solution and to create binary assembly files and other deployment artifacts. The X++ debugging experience is integrated with the F5/Run function, ...