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 …
Five years ago, I wrote a blog post called Assembly containing a given type, demonstrating how to find the assembly where a given type is defined. I needed the same thing in AX 7, but instead of using the same code, I decided to utilize the fact that I can now easily write parts of …
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AX 7 (“Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations”) offers a new API for getting metadata of AX elements such as tables, form extensions, models and so on. It’s very easy to use, therefore even if you’re very familiar with the old TreeNode API, you should definitely pay attention to this new one. The best place to …
Při zkoumání Dynamics AX 2012 občas narážím na situace, kdy bych se chtěl dozvědět více o nějakém CLR typu (zejména dekompilovat ho v ILSpy) a potřebuji vědět, v jakém sestavení je se nachází. Lze to řešit například takovouto X++ metodou: public static void showContainingAssembly(str _typeName) { System.AppDomain appDomain = System.AppDomain::get_CurrentDomain(); System.Reflection.Assembly[] assemblies = appDomain.GetAssemblies(); System.Reflection.Assembly …
When exploring Dynamics AX 2012, I sometimes meet situations when I would like to know more about some CLR type (particularly to decompile it in ILSpy) and I need to know in which assembly it is contained. It can be solved by the following X++ method, for instance: public static void showContainingAssembly(str _typeName) { System.AppDomain …