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F&O development with multiple version control workspaces

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The usual setup (documented by Microsoft) of version control for F&O is using Team Foundation Version Control and configuring the workspace mapping like this: $/MyProject/Trunk/Main/Metadata k:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory $/MyProject/Trunk/Main/Projects c:\Users\Admin123456789\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects This means that PackagesLocalDirectory contains both standard packages (such as ApplicationSuite) and custom packages, i.e. your development and ISV solutions you’ve installed. This works fine …

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Locking in Team Foundation Version Control

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If you use Team Foundation Version Control, you have several ways to control whether multiple developers can work on same objects simultaneously. You normally want that, because developers often need to change a common file (a class, a configuration file and so on) and waiting for each other would cause unnecessary delays. But it’s not …

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Layer change in MorphX VCS

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I already posted an article about the same thing some time ago: Moving a model to another layer. The difference is that it was about Team Foundation Server, but this time I needed to move a model to another layer while using MorphX VCS. MorphX VCS doesn’t support synchronization, therefore my original approach can’t be …

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Combine XPO and corrupted files

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Few days ago my night build of a Dynamics AX 2009 application stopped working correctly. Some objects were missing in the built layer, which of course caused many compilation errors. It occurred that data were correctly obtained from version control, but the Combine XPO Tool (CombineXPOs.exe) couldn’t process them. (If you’re not familiar with that, …

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Missing check-in

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An opinion I encounter relatively often is that a disadvantage of isolated development environments of Dynamics AX is in the fact that if one developer forgets to include an object in version control, the application doesn’t work and doesn’t compile in other development environments. So I’ll probably surprise many people by the statement that I …

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