If you want to set up your development sandbox to be hosted in Business Central—which, by the way, is the simplest of all the options—perform the following steps:
- Sign up for a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox at https://aka.ms/getsandboxforbusinesscentral.
When you sign up for your sandbox, you cannot use a personal email address. You must use either a work or school account.
- Install the AL Language extension from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dynamics-smb.al:
There are just two steps to getting your sandbox! Once you go through the signup process, you'll be logged into your sandbox and will be greeted with a message similar to the following: