This blog post assumes that you’re familiar with generic types. If it’s not the case, I suggest you look at my previous blog post before continuing. You can’t create generic types and methods in X++, so why would you care about generics at all? The main reason is that it’s used heavily in .NET codebase …
Make sure you familiarize yourself with new (upcoming) deployment options for Dynamics 365 for Operations. In short, you’ll be able to run it outside cloud (e.g. on your own hardware) and then either synchronize data to cloud or keep them locally. Of course, not having data in cloud means missing some cloud features such as …
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Dynamics 365 for Operations deploys custom web services in two ways: as SOAP-based services and JSON-based services. AX developers are often familiar with SOAP services (which were used in AX 2012), but JSON-based ones are new to them. One particular challenge is passing arguments to a service. Let’s say we have an Add operation, which …
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If you want to run and/or modify AX 7 (Dynamics 365 for Operations), you get a whole virtual environment configured by Microsoft and you either deploy it to Azure or run as a local virtual machine on Hyper-V. I have a huge laptop with 32 GB RAM and two SSD disks built specifically for running …
The first part of this mini-tutorial showed how to create necessary classes for an extensible control. We have X++ classes for a control showing maps, we’ve added the control to a form and set a few properties. Now we have to add some HTML and JavaScript to do the job in browser. Create a text …