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Finding display methods in D365FO
Somebody asked in the Community forum for examples of display methods in views in the standard D365FO application. It’s not necessary to remember any concrete examples – finding all such methods is...
View ArticleSimple metadata query in Powershell (D365FO)
If I need to extra metadata of a D365FO application, my preferred way is the new metadata API. But sometimes the requirement is so simple that it’s sufficient to query source XML files directly. For...
View ArticleEntity metadata in a console application
There was a question in the Community forum about creating tables in an external databases that would match the schema of F&O data entities. One of the possible approaches is generating SQL code...
View ArticleAnimated GIF thumbnails from a video
This blog post isn’t about Dynamics AX / Dynamics 365, although it may occasionally be useful for some AX/D365 developers as well. Let’s say I have a 30 minutes long movie that I want to share on a...
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Fixed-width text files in data management (F&O)
Data management in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations supports several types of files for import and export. I usually see XML, Excel and CSV used, but sometimes we also need to deal with a text...
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Dynamic list of methods to execute (in D365FO)
Imagine that you’re running a set of payment matching rules or you’re trying to find discounts based on various criteria. You’ll try one way to find the data, if it doesn’t bring anything, you try...
View ArticleThe power of well-designed code
My previous blog post reminded me a refactoring that I did on one of my previous projects (in AX 2012). I needed to adjust a piece of logic and found that it’s implemented as a method with more than...
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Method as a parameter (in D365FO)
We usually have methods where the logic is written in code and it just receives some data in parameters. But sometimes it’s benefitial to allow the caller code to define a piece of logic by itself....
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HcmWorkerV2
I was asked to investigate why some changes disappeared from Employess form in F&O. If I open Human resources > Workers > Employees and right-click the form, it shows that its name is...
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Get-D365Module -InDependencyOrder
Despite the fact that I built a Powershell module for maintenance tasks of AX 2009 and AX 2012 environments, I’m not much involved in d365fo.tools module. The credit goes to other people, especially...
View ArticleDynamicsMinds conference speakers
I’ve just checked the list of sessions proposed for DynamicsMinds conference (22–24 May 2023, Slovenia), where I’ll also have a few, and recognized many familiar names. It’ll be great not only to...
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Acceptance Test Library
Acceptance Test Library (ATL) in F&O isn’t a new feature, but many people aren’t aware of it, therefore let me try to raise awareness a bit. ATL is used in automated tests written by developers...
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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:...
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Monitoring and telemetry in F&O
Applications Insights in an Azure service for monitoring of applications. Many Azure Services support it out of the box – you just connect, say, an Azure Function to Application Insights and it’ll...
View ArticlePublic preview of the new F&O dev experience
Something that was talked about for a long time is getting closer to reality. F&O development will no longer require those huge VMs with SQL Server and everything. Instead, you’ll just install...
View ArticleQuery/QueryRun with temporary tables (AX/F&O)
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...
View ArticleHappy New Year 2024
Happy New Year! (To everyone who follows Gregorian calendar :)). Let me look a bit at what I did in 2023 and what I expect in 2024. I keep working for a large end-user company. I do a lot of different...
View ArticleEntity collection as OData action parameter
Data entities in F&O can be exposed through OData protocol. You can also add OData actions by creating methods in X++ and decorating them with SysODataCollectionAttribute. You can see an example...
View ArticleOfflineAuthenticationAdminEmail overwritten
My F&O environment asked me to log in every time to when I started debugging. I changed OfflineAuthenticationAdminEmail in DynamicsDevConfig.xml (at %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio Dynamics...
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MVP Summit 2024
Microsoft MVP Summit is an annual conference in Redmond (USA), where Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) meet to share experience, learn about new features coming to Microsoft products and to...
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