I already explained how to use code snippets and a problem you might run into, but what if you want some additional snippets? The good news is that you can easily build new snippets by yourself. Let’s use a concrete example. Let’s say that you often write queries with the query framework and execute them …
In the previous blog post, I demonstrated how to use several code snippets in Visual Studio. I also mentioned that there is a problem – here I’m going to look at it more closely. Let me introduce yet another snippet, just to make it a little bit more interesting. propfull is modeled on a snippet …
Code snippets, in general, are small pieces of code that often can’t be used separately, but they’re rather intended to be integrated in a larger solution. Visual Studio offers several features for working with snippets, and because Dynamics AX development is now done completely in Visual Studio, X++ developers can use them too. Let’s start …
You sometimes need to connect from Dynamics AX to another database and read or write data there. The usual approach uses OdbcConnection class, as described on MSDN in How to: Connect to an External Database from X++ Code [AX 2012]. Although it definitely is a possible solution (I used it already in AX 3.0), it …
In some cases, you can make your debugging much easier if you debug CIL instead of the original X++ code. Working with collection classes (lists, maps, etc) is such a case. For example, the following picture shows a map (mapping customer IDs to CustTable records, e.g. for caching) as displayed by the AX debugger: If …
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