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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When testing my new rule for code upgrade tool, I found that certain objects are skipped and rules are not checked for them. That makes the tool significantly less useful, because you can’t be sure that it found everything. This blog post explains why it happens, but unfortunately doesn’t provide any reasonable workaround, except making …
The Code Upgrade Tool allows you to detect patterns in X++ code and even to automatically change code. It’s especially useful for code upgrade, because you can easily upgrade legacy code. For example, CompanyInfo.CurrencyInfo field was replaced by CompanyInfo::standardCurrency() method in AX 2012. To upgrade your code, you would have to find and fix all …
Dynamics AX 2012 is able to generate Common Intermediate Language from X++. That allows much more code running in Common Language Runtime and also switching between X++ runtime and CLR can be greatly reduced, both having positive impact on performance. Many developers see it as a bit of black magic, which sometimes causes avoidable difficulties. …
When exploring Dynamics AX 2012, I sometimes meet situations when I would like to know more about some CLR type (particularly to decompile it in ILSpy) and I need to know in which assembly it is contained. It can be solved by the following X++ method, for instance: public static void showContainingAssembly(str _typeName) { System.AppDomain …