Yesterday Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan published a brief blog post New capability in X++ : The In operator. He mentioned that this feature went unnoticed by most, which is my case too. And I didn’t find anything even when I explicitly looked for more information. Anyway, such an operator can be very handy and I’m quite …
Update! PU31 has added the ability to throw managed exceptions. Read more about it here. What I really miss in X++ is the ability to throw exception objects. If you throw an exception in X++, it’s just a number defining what kind of exception it is, which usually says just “Error” (Exception::Error). You also typically …
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You can use Dynamics 365 > Find labels… in Visual Studio to find D365FO labels, but its capabilities are quite limited. Sometimes a better option is searching through the underlying text files directly and you can easily automate it with Powershell. The following script looks at all label files for US English and finds all …
Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations runs completely in “.NET”, which has some interesting implications. The runtime and tools working with it (such as Visual Studio) offer many new options that may be very useful. One of these options is the ability to catch first chance exceptions. When an exception is thrown, it’s considered a …
Sometimes you may want to generate a Word document from code in D365FO, which gives you much more control over the result than if you simply printed a report to Word. Here is a very brief example of how you can do it. Start with creating an X++ project. Then add a C# class library …