Five years ago, I wrote a blog post called Assembly containing a given type, demonstrating how to find the assembly where a given type is defined. I needed the same thing in AX 7, but instead of using the same code, I decided to utilize the fact that I can now easily write parts of …
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Installing deployable packages to an AX 7 environment can often be done just by a few clicks on LCS (as described in Apply a deployable package on a Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations system). Unfortunately the situation isn’t always that simple and you may have to install the package manually, using the process explained in …
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AX 7 (“Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations”) offers a new API for getting metadata of AX elements such as tables, form extensions, models and so on. It’s very easy to use, therefore even if you’re very familiar with the old TreeNode API, you should definitely pay attention to this new one. The best place to …
Application Explorer in AX 7 allows easy filtering, which is extremely useful, because trying to locate something in AOT is what we do all the time (I really missed this feature for many years). It looks simple, but it’s very powerful, if you know how to use it. First of all, you can simply put …
If you want to allow users configure certain conditions by themselves, considering using the Expression Builder control. This is how it looks like: It exists already in AX 2012, where you can add it through the ManagedHost control. AX 7 doesn’t support managed controls anymore, but the Expression Builder has been redesigned and it’s now …