Last time, I mentioned using of GitHub Copilot for X++ development, but I didn’t realize that not everyone is aware of the option of using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio. A lot of examples on Internet shows it in Visual Studio Code and don’t mention Visual Studio at all, which may be confusing. To use …
I’ve finally started looking more closely on GitHub Copilot. What it can do with languages like C# is impressive; I also checked that it can help with things like Powershell scripts or Excel formulas. But because I’m still primarily an X++ guy, I’m keen to explore how it can help there. So far, I tried …
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Microsoft MVP Summit is an annual conference in Redmond (USA), where Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) meet to share experience, learn about new features coming to Microsoft products and to give feedback to Microsoft on what works well and where attention is needed. I just came back from this year’s one and want to share …
My F&O environment asked me to log in every time to when I started debugging. I changed OfflineAuthenticationAdminEmail in DynamicsDevConfig.xml (at %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio Dynamics 365), but I noticed that the value got overwritten every time when I started Visual Studio and opened an F&O project. I tried changing the value in j:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\bin\DynamicsDevConfig.xml, but it didn’t …
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Data entities in F&O can be exposed through OData protocol. You can also add OData actions by creating methods in X++ and decorating them with SysODataCollectionAttribute. You can see an example in MssLeaveRequestDateEntity.getDirects(): [ SysODataActionAttribute(’getDirects’, false), SysODataCollectionAttribute(’return’, Types::Record, ‘MssLeaveRequestDateEntity’) ] public static List getDirects( str reportingPersonnelNumber, date fromDate, date toDate, LeaveRequestApprovalStatus leaveRequestStatus) { List list …
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