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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Because AX 2012 sometimes executes CIL generated from X++ instead of X++ itself, debugging must be done in a debugger that understands CIL and it almost always means Visual Studio. AX developers sometimes complain about the need of switching between two debuggers, that loading of symbols for debugging is slow and so on. Although these …
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Brian Harry announced some upcoming changes in licensing of Visual Studio Online (and later for Team Foundation Server too). Everybody should be delighted by the new Stakeholder license, which will be completely free. It will have following permissions: Full read/write/create on all work items Create, run and save (to “My Queries”) work item queries View …
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