Dynamics 365 Business Central environments
Business Central has several similarities with the finance and operations environment setup. Three different kinds of sandbox environments are available, where you should do all your development:
- Online sandbox with demo data
- Online sandbox with production data
- Container sandbox
The online sandboxes are deployed in the Dynamics 365 cloud service that’s managed by Microsoft. If you want to do debugging, it might be helpful to have an online sandbox with production data so that you can do the debugging in the sandbox environment and not in your production environment.
The container sandbox is locally hosted or deployed on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. In this sandbox, you can also use on-premises tools in addition to Microsoft Visual Studio Code and the designer.
You can do customizations and changes to Business Central by writing extensions. To create extensions, you’ll need a Business Central tenant, Visual Studio Code, and the AL language extension. After you’ve created your extensions, your users can download the extension to their Business Central solution.