My previous blog post reminded me a refactoring that I did on one of my previous projects (in AX 2012). I needed to adjust a piece of logic and found that it’s implemented as a method with more than two thousand lines. Of course, nobody could understand what’s going on there. Such code in unmaintainable. …
Imagine that you’re running a set of payment matching rules or you’re trying to find discounts based on various criteria. You’ll try one way to find the data, if it doesn’t bring anything, you try another one, and so on. A typical implementation looks like this: found = trySomething(); if (!found) { found = …
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Data management in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations supports several types of files for import and export. I usually see XML, Excel and CSV used, but sometimes we also need to deal with a text format with fixed-width columns. It means that there is no column separator as in CSV – we know that …
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This blog post isn’t about Dynamics AX / Dynamics 365, although it may occasionally be useful for some AX/D365 developers as well. Let’s say I have a 30 minutes long movie that I want to share on a website and I want to give people an idea about the content of the video. Therefore I …
There was a question in the Community forum about creating tables in an external databases that would match the schema of F&O data entities. One of the possible approaches is generating SQL code for CREATE TABLE statement. The information about field names, types and such things would be taken from F&O metadata and we already …
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