Let’s say that we want to use X++ to create an XML file with the following DocType definition: <!DOCTYPE MyType SYSTEM "http://www.validome.org/check/test.dtd"> AX has Xml* classes (e.g. XmlDocument) for such purpose, but let’s build it with .NET classes first (you’ll see why in a moment). This is X++ code calling .NET classes through .NET Interop: …
I managed to produce a really confusing error in AX 2012. Look at the following piece of code: MyExtendedDataType a, b; a = b; Pretty boring, isn’t it? There is nothing to fail… except that I got a compilation error: Operand types are not compatible with the operator. What? Actually it become quite clear as …
Today I noticed that Type hierarchy browser in AX 2012 R3 allows you to compile types backwards: Context menu in AOT supports only forward compilation. It’s possible that the feature is there for some time and it just took me long time to notice it, because I normally don’t compile code from Type hierarchy browser.
Brian Harry announced some upcoming changes in licensing of Visual Studio Online (and later for Team Foundation Server too). Everybody should be delighted by the new Stakeholder license, which will be completely free. It will have following permissions: Full read/write/create on all work items Create, run and save (to “My Queries”) work item queries View …
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Issue Search is obviously not the coolest part of Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services, but it’s very useful and I would like to show you a few tricks. If you’ve never heard about Issues Search before, it’s a relatively simple web page where you can find hot fixes released for AX 2012 and even issues currently …