If you are following this chapter step by step, the following steps will cause a compilation error as we have not yet created the ConVMSVehicleGroup display method as specified in the FormRef property of the ConVMSVehicleGroup table. You can remove this property value for now and complete it when the menu item is created.
It may seem odd to do add this property at this stage, but this is because of the way the recipes have been split in order to aid readability. When creating a table, we would normally create the table, form, menu item, and security privileges all at the same time.
This process has not created the physical table, which is done by the database synchronization tool. The database synchronization is performed against the metadata created when the package is built.
To perform a full database synchronization, we would follow these steps:
- From the menu, select Dynamics 365 and then Build models....
- Check ConVehicleManagement [Contoso - vehicle management] and click Build.
- This will take a few minutes to complete, depending on the speed of the VM and the size of the package. When it finishes, you can click Close. Any errors will be reported in the Error list pane in Visual Studio.
- Then select Synchronize database... from the same menu. This can easily take 20 minutes to complete.
For incremental changes, we can save a lot of time after the first build by taking these steps as we want to test our progress as we develop our solution:
- Right-click on the project in the Solution Explorer and choose Build. Monitor the Output pane to see when it is complete. Again, any errors are shown in the Error list pane.
- Next, right-click on the project again and choose Synchronize ConVehicleManagement (USR) [Contoso – vehicle management] with database.
This process should only take a few minutes to complete.