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Do I need a development license for developing apps in business central on local PC

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Hi All,

Hope you're all fine. I need to develop a small application in BC on premise consisting of 5 to 10 tables, pages or reports. Do I need a development license? Or can I use Business Central for lifetime on my local PC?

If I don't need any development license for it then can I start developing any small application by installing Business Central on my local PC and attaching a local DB with it? Please guide me on this..

Answers will be highly appreciated.

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YUN ZHU 90,068 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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RE: Do I need a development license for developing apps in business central on local PC

Hi, you can also choose SaaS trial version.

https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-365-free-trial/

If your region does not allow you to create, you can refer to the link below.

https://yzhums.com/18551/

And if you are MS partner, you can go to Microsoft Customer Digital Experiences to create free trial BC tenant.

https://cdx.transform.microsoft.com/

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

ZHU

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BrianDev 105 on at

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RE: Do I need a development license for developing apps in business central on local PC

Here are a few tips.

Powershell scrips (Must run as administrator)

After installing docker

Step 1 - Installs powershell script commands for BC

Import-Module BcContainerHelper

Step 2

Restart PC

Step 3 - downloads latest container setups and installs them

new-bccontainer -accept_eula 1 -containerName YOURCONTAINERNAME -artifacturl (Get-BcartifactUrl -type sandbox -country us -select Latest) -updateHosts -auth UserPassword -includeAL -isolation hyperv -windows

Step 4 - Shows information that relates to the Container you just made.

docker logs YOURCONTAINERNAME

Step 5

Shortcuts are created for the services including URL for application.

Verify connectivity to user url with credentials entered when prompted by powershell scrip

Step 6

Visual Studio Code development.

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,035 Moderator on at

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RE: Do I need a development license for developing apps in business central on local PC

Here you can read about how you can use Docker for developing i AL

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-running-container-development

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M Hussnain Javed 241 on at

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RE: Do I need a development license for developing apps in business central on local PC

Hi BrianDev

Thanks for replying. Sounds good. Can you please guide me a little on this or can you please share some reference links that how can I do docker type things?

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RE: Do I need a development license for developing apps in business central on local PC

If you are developing for your own personal usage and do not wish to publish them then you can develop them in a local sandbox(ie Docker Container) and publish them to your on prem BC.

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Nitin Verma 21,613 Moderator on at

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RE: Do I need a development license for developing apps in business central on local PC

Hi,

You can not buy any Development license, if you want to do development anything in the code, you need to connect with your Development or License partner.

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M Hussnain Javed 241 on at

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RE: Do I need a development license for developing apps in business central on local PC

Hi Nitin,

Thanks for replying. If I buy a dev license for BC OnPrem with object ranges from 50,000 to 50,100 then what would be estimated price for it? And can you please guide me with a little explanation or reference links that how and from where can I buy a dev license?

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Nitin Verma 21,613 Moderator on at

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RE: Do I need a development license for developing apps in business central on local PC

Hi,

Yes if you are using a BC On Prem, then you need to have an Business central license, and if you are using a Saas version you need to have a valid subscription and super permission with Active directory user.

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