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Handling Files with Dynamics 365 Business Central

Exchanging data via files is a standard practice in every company and every business. In a traditional application, you can read and write a file from the local file system easily. But what about a cloud-based application? Dynamics 365 Business Central is a SaaS application and you cannot directly interact with the local file system (you can if your extension targets the on-premises environment in the app.json file, but this is not “Universal Code-compliant”, as we learned in Chapter 1, Dynamics 365 Business Central Momentum).

How can (and should) you handle files with Dynamics 365 Business Central?

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Using streams for loading files in the cloud ...

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