Create the Sandbox

ContainerHavn is a SaaS (Software as a Service) service we've created, which enables you to easily create your own personal Business Central instance for development. This way you won't have to worry about someone else working on the same instance as you. 🚀

The container overview on ContainerHavn — The container overview allows you to easily manage your container, as well as connect to it from Visual Studio Code.

To create your development environment, click the blue Create button in the top right part of the page:

The create container form on ContainerHavn — There's a lot of options for you to choose from here, but all the recommended defaults have been set for you automatically.

Give it a fitting name, leave the rest of the options to their defaults and hit Create.

The overview showing that the container is creating — The overview shows you a live view of the process.

You can even see the logs if you want to:

The live logs — The logs are updated in realtime, so you don't have to refresh the page.

Connect to the container

Once it's done, copy the launch.json configuration by clicking it in the VS Code column:

The container when it's created and running — Clicking the name takes you to the Business Central login page. The **User 1** and **User 2** columns contain the usernames; clicking them will copy their respective passwords. Clicking ⏸️ will stop the container, releasing the CPU and RAM resources on the VM 🖥️.

Paste it into app/.vscode/launch.json, like this:

The launch.json file with the ContainerHavn connection — The *launch.json* file tells Visual Studio Code which Business Central instances it should connect to.

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