One of things I really miss in X++ is any reasonable way to handle exceptions. AX doesn’t know exceptions as objects, it has only an enumeration type Exception and, morover, programmers should basically throw only Error, UpdateConflict and UpdateConflictNotRecovered explicitely, which effectively prevents any handling based on the type of exception. We can hardly do …
Sometimes we need to write some data into a database independently on the currently running DB transaction. For example, we want to log some state occurred in the application, however any exception could cause a rollback of the whole transaction, including the log entry. It could look as follows: LogTable logTable; ; ttsbegin; logTable.Message = …
In pursuance of application design or an existing system analysis I sometimes need to draw entity-relationship diagrams. Diagrams are more illustrative than tables or word descriptions and they help especially with things involving relations (foreign keys, delete actions etc.) For this purpose I tried to find an easy to use piece of software with a …
After some delays I’ve finally published my extension of AX for linking of Team Foundation Server work items during checkin. See more on this page.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 won’t support Oracle database. It was only a question of time and the time is here now. Current customers using Oracle database as their AX transactional database will be forced to switch to Microsoft SQL Server. It should be facilitated by Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server Data Migration Assistant for Microsoft …