F&O development with multiple version control workspaces

The usual setup (documented by Microsoft) of version control for F&O is using Team Foundation Version Control and configuring the workspace mapping like this: $/MyProject/Trunk/Main/Metadata k:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory $/MyProject/Trunk/Main/Projects c:\Users\Admin123456789\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects This means that PackagesLocalDirectory contains both standard packages (such as ApplicationSuite) and custom packages, i.e. your development and ISV solutions you’ve installed. This works fine …

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Splitting .xpo files

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 …

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Find D365FO labels in Powershell

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 …

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