In X++, you can decorate classes and methods with attributes. Attributes were added in AX 2012 (I believe), where the typical use case was a definition of data contracts. They’re much more common in F&O, because they’re also used for CoC and event handlers. For most developers, attributes are something defined by Microsoft and used …
I noticed that some developers believe that Query* classes can’t be used to query temporary tables. It is possible; it just requires an extra step that isn’t needed with regular tables. When working with temporary tables, each buffer (variable) of the same table can refer to a different set of temporary data. Therefore using the …
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When saving a record, I had to check which fields had changed and react in a special way if only certain fields (and not any other) changed their value. I could iterate all fields and compare their values in two table buffers (the original and the updated one), but I thought that D365FO might already …
When I read Evaldas Landauskas’s blog post Development guidelines: Prefix Vs. Suffix, I thought I would write a comment below the post and share a few ideas, but then I decided that it’d be better to write my own blog post. Here I have a much better control over formatting and the content will be …
I got an .xpo file from an older version of AX with some code of interest and because it had a few thousand lines, it wasn’t exactly easy to navigate. At least splitting it by object would make my life much easier. Fortunately I looked at the internet and found exactly the right tool for …