I’ve run into a problem that reminded me that while X++ types and corresponding CLR types (such as str and System.String) can often be user interchangeably, they aren’t the same. I was trying to convert a utcdatetime value to the standard “sortable” format in D365FO, for which I wrote the following code: utcdatetime currentDateTime = …
I got an .xpo file from an older version of AX with some code of interest and because it had a few thousand lines, it wasn’t exactly easy to navigate. At least splitting it by object would make my life much easier. Fortunately I looked at the internet and found exactly the right tool for …
I’m not sure that everybody is aware that a single event handler method (in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations) can be decorated with several event handler attributes. For example, a common method can handle both inserts and updates. [ DataEventHandler(tableStr(MyTable), DataEventType::Inserted), DataEventHandler(tableStr(MyTable), DataEventType::Updated) ] public static void myHandler(Common _sender, DataEventArgs _e) Or it can …
Development VMs for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations come with a cross-reference database that doesn’t match the actual code and metadata. There are many annoying references to Microsoft’s own test models, which aren’t included and therefore such references are useless and make finding real references more complicated. (The idea to get it fixed is …
This blog post explains a problem that you can run into when using reference group controls with grouped data – and a solution for this problem. I have a table which stores references to workers. The field has HcmWorkerRecId data type, i.e. it stores record IDs from HcmWorker table. When I drop this field to …