Option 1 – Sandbox hosted in Business Central

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:

  1. 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.
  1. 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: