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.
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 …
Regardless of how hard we try to write flawless software, sooner or later something goes wrong and we must identify where exactly the problem lies (to be able to fix it). One option is using the debugger, but it’s not always possible – we can’t reproduce the problem, for example. Another way is inserting some …
X++ compiler is very benevolent when dealing with types – much more than it should be. It happily accepts code that can’t succeed at run-time, as I’ll will demonstrate in a minute. It’s unfortunate, because some errors could have been detected at compile-time and they aren’t. And that’s not all – the X++ runtime is …
I unexpectedly got Access denied: SysOperationServiceController when trying to call a method through the SysOperation framework in Dynamics AX 2012. It was just a piece of research code and I didn’t want to bother with my own controller, therefore I created and executed a menu item with the following properties: Property Value ObjectType Class Object …
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