AxBuild.exe

Just a quick one to bring your attention to something what you may have missed. Microsoft released a command-line tool for Dynamics AX R2 CU 7 called AxBuild. It’s capable of compiling X++ code directly on AOS and doing it in several threads in the same some time, which has a huge effect on performance. …

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AX compilation log parser

Dynamics AX allows you to export compilation output to a file (.html). The file can be imported back into AX and then you can work with compilation results in Dynamics AX application in the same way as after a normal compilation. That’s useful for later analysis without a need of recompilation, for automated builds and …

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X++ compilation

When I recently read the post Resolving Compile Errors and Generating CIL is not Optional by Joris de Gruyter, I immediatelly recalled several problems I keep meeting in companies that develop and maintain Dynamics AX-based solutions. I’m going to speak only about the “normal” compilation to p-code, not to CIL. From a fault prevention point of …

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