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Default fields in Open in Excel
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Electronic reporting: Method returning a list of records
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Default fields in Open in Excel

When you open a data entity in Data Connector in Excel (usually from an F&O form by Open in Excel), not all fields must be displayed by default. You can go to Designer and add more fields from Available to Selected. But what if you want some field...

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22 Nov 2024
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Electronic reporting: Method returning a list of records

I had a scenario in electronic report where I wanted to reuse existing X++ code that generates some temporary table records for reporting purpose. Therefore I wanted electronic reporting to call my X++ method (for a particular context, an invoice ...

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20 Nov 2024
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Getting attributes in X++

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...

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20 Nov 2024
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Run settings for SysTest

When you execute automated tests of X++ code with SysTest, the test service (SysTestService class) gets called with some parameters, defined in SysTestRunnerSettings: You could, for example, set granularity to execute just unit tests and skip inte...

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04 Nov 2024
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Detection of code upgrade conflicts in F&O

When you overlayered an application element (e.g. a method or a form) in Dynamics AX, a copy was saved in a higher layer. You modified the object there, therefore you ended up with two copies of the same element – the original one in a lower layer...

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31 Oct 2024
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Avoiding code duplication in F&O

In the previous post, I explained that duplicating application elements is expensive and we should avoid it whenever possible. Let me mention a few techniques that you could use. Obviously, you can create metadata extensions, use Chain of Command ...

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14 Oct 2024
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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

Last time, I mentioned using of GitHub Copilot for X++ development, but I didn’t realize that not everyone is aware of the option of using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio. A lot of examples on Internet shows it in Visual Studio Code and don’t ment...

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04 Oct 2024
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X++ documentation comments by GitHub Copilot

I’ve finally started looking more closely on GitHub Copilot. What it can do with languages like C# is impressive; I also checked that it can help with things like Powershell scripts or Excel formulas. But because I’m still primarily an X++ guy, I’...

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