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Architecture of Unified dev environment

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Dear team,
 
I have go through blogs that which recommended to install Visual studio 2022 in our local system. 
it's okay. but I am confused here how the database will connect with our local system and if I do any CRUD operations, then how it's impact in db.
 
Kindly elaborate please.
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    André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    301,206 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Hi,
     
    The architecture is based on having Visual Studio 2022, in fact, working offline. There is a Dynamics 365 F&O online environment available. When you connect to that environment, it will check if you have the correct meta data, otherwise it will download them, so you have a local copy of the source code (standard application). You can only perform development and after building the code, deploy this to the online environment. 
     
    From Visual Studio, you don't do any direct CRUD operations. That is in the online application by navigating through forms and starting (periodic) jobs. 
     
    There is an option to get JIT database access, then you can use e.g. SQL Server Management Studio to look at the database and it's content. 
    For cross-references, a local DB is used. 
  • CU10121822-0 Profile Picture
    24 on at
    Thanks ,Andre for the response.
     
    What I understood,
     
    1. The Visual studio 2022 is worked as offline. It means whatever development we did that was in offline only.
     
    2. As you said "Dynamics 365 F&O online environment available". What it means?
     
    3. As you siad "You can only perform development and after building the code, deploy this to the online environment.  
    So, it means only development will happened offline and deploy will be in online environment.
    Kindly elaborate pls. here deploy the object means is it check -in?  
    pls let me know the process how will i do the code deployment after building the code.
     
    4. As you said " From Visual Studio, you don't do any direct CRUD operations. 
    for example - if I like to update or insert data in Sales table. Usually, we used set based operation to perform it from Visual Studio 2022 in cloud hosted environment. 
    Is it not possible now in Unified dev environment? If no, then how will I achieve this?
     
    Kindly elaborate please. thanks!

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