Introduction
Developers can complete application development for finance and operations apps in Microsoft Visual Studio, which provides comprehensive tools for development tasks, including debugging and testing. As the primary integrated development environment (IDE), Visual Studio helps developers create, customize, and perform various development operations.
You can develop in a virtual hard disk (VHD) installment on your local machine or by using a Microsoft Azure cloud-hosted environment. Regardless of how you access a development environment, you can find the resources that you need for access in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Lifecycle Services.
In this module, you learn how to install and access a VHD developer environment and a cloud-hosted developer environment so that you can begin developing finance and operations apps. You can deploy finance and operations apps in the cloud or as Finance + Operations (on-premises). As a developer, you need to understand the differences between these architectures.