Code snippets, in general, are small pieces of code that often can’t be used separately, but they’re rather intended to be integrated in a larger solution. Visual Studio offers several features for working with snippets, and because Dynamics AX development is now done completely in Visual Studio, X++ developers can use them too. Let’s start …
There are many situations when you may want to send an e-mail from Dynamics AX. Let’s see what options we have. First of all, you have to configure the environment. Go to System administration > Setup > Email > Email parameters (or simply search for email parameters in navigation search). The first tab shows email …
New Dynamics AX is a web application running in cloud, so how can users work with files in such an environment? The answer is: in the same way as with other web applications. If you know how to add and download attachments in your webmail client, you can do it in AX 7 as well. …
In older versions of Dynamics AX, you can get information about AX application objects (metadata) through system “tables” such as UtilElements. This doesn’t work anymore in AX 7. These tables still exist, but they don’t have any data, therefore you have to migrate to another solution. AX 7 comes with a rich framework for metadata, …
X++ didn’t change much since I started to work with it eleven years ago, with a few exceptions such as event handlers in AX 2012. That’s not true anymore in AX 7, because it comes with many new language constructs (and more are expected). If you’re familiar with modern object-oriented languages, and especially C#, you’ll …