Certification booster packs

If you’re considering taking a Microsoft exam, you might be interested in Microsoft Certification Booster Packs. They give you a practice test and/or four extra retakes in case you fail, which may be very helpful if you’re not sure what to expect from the exam, or if it’s quite hard. The offer expires on 30th …

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Class extensions

The new Dynamics AX (AX 7) attempts to minimize overlayering (“customization”) and promote extensions, which allow adding functionality without modifying source code of the original object. For example, you now can attach a field to a table without changing the definition of the table itself. It has many benefits – no changes in existing objects …

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Label ID fix

I recently saw an interesting problem with labels in AX 2012 – two customizations created different labels with the same IDs, therefore the newer won and the older one showed completely wrong texts in GUI. For example, one customization created a form with caption @XYZ1 = “Customers”. Another customization created a label with the same …

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Fonts and colors in Visual Studio

Moving Dynamics AX development to Visual Studio gave us a state-of-art IDE with many features and configuration options. For instance, you can modify fonts, font sizes and color to match your preference and to help to overcome certain visual impairments. These options are available from Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors. You can configure many …

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Custom code snippets in AX 7

I already explained how to use code snippets and a problem you might run into, but what if you want some additional snippets? The good news is that you can easily build new snippets by yourself. Let’s use a concrete example. Let’s say that you often write queries with the query framework and execute them …

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