Beta exam MB-500
Today I took the beta exam MB-500: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer; I think it’s going to be made generally available on January. I was already planning to take it when I...
View ArticleSecurity API
The product that used to be called Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (I truly don’t know how I should call it these days) allows defining security elements both by developers (delivered...
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Thoughts on element prefix vs. suffix
When I read Evaldas Landauskas’s blog post Development guidelines: Prefix Vs. Suffix, I thought I would write a comment below the post and share a few ideas, but then I decided that it’d be better to...
View ArticleCompare records in code
When saving a record, I had to check which fields had changed and react in a special way if only certain fields (and not any other) changed their value. I could iterate all fields and compare their...
View ArticleException handling in PU31
In 2018, I wrote the blog post Throwing managed exceptions from X++ in D365FO, where I pondered upon how throwing proper exceptions objects in X++ would be beneficial. This is still true. I also showed...
View Article‘is’ and ‘as’ operators with .NET types
I recently ran into an unfortunate limitation of .NET Interop from X++ (in D365FO). I wanted to check if an X++ object is of a given type, nevertheless the type used for the variable declaration was a...
View ArticleFormObservableLink works in data source extensions
FormObservableLink class is useful for refreshing display and edit methods in D365FO. You create an instance variable of FormObservableLink type in a form, initialize it and call its observe() method...
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Colored tabs in Visual Studio
Do you have many tabs in Visual Studio with designers and code editors and do you struggle to make sense of them? It’s not surprising – we often work with many things at once and some elements even...
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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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