Microsoft Dynamics 365 / Power Platform

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Jan 18, 2021 - Including ISV Binaries in Your Package

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Many ISVs supply their Dynamics 365 Finance / Supply Chain solutions in a deployable package, which only contains binaries. With the current enforcement (“all-in-one package”) of a long-standing best practice to deploy all code together all the time, some customers are only now faced with figuring out how to “repackage” an ISV’s binaries into their own package. In this post I will outline a few gotchas in addition to the official documentation, for both the legacy build pipeline and the new build pipeline. You can also watch a quick overview video I made here on YouTube.

Oct 31, 2019 - Pushing, Dragging or Pulling an Industry Forward

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Quite a few years ago, in my previous job when I was an MVP still, I did an online webinar for the AXUG called “Putting Software Engineering back in Dynamics AX” (in 2014). Admittedly it was somewhat of a rant / soap box type of talk. I guess “food for thought” would be a more optimistic characterization. I did try to inject some humor into the otherwise ranty slides by adding some graphics. At the time we were building out our X++ development team and we were heavily vested in TFS and automation, and I was very keen on sharing our lightbulb moments and those “why did we only start doing this now” revelations.

Oct 11, 2019 - Debugging woes with symbols: bug or feature?

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I’ve struggled with this myself for a while during the betas of “AX7”. Sometimes, symbols aren’t loaded for your code and your breakpoints aren’t hit. It’s clear that the Dynamics 365 option “Only load symbols for your solution” has something to do with it, but still there’s strange behavior. It took me a few years at Microsoft for someone to explain the exact logic there. Since I’ve been sitting on this knowledge for a while and I’ve recently ran into some customer calls where debugging trouble was brought up, I realized it’s overdue for me to share this knowledge.

Mar 25, 2019 - Repost: Pointing Build Definitions to Specific VMs (agents)

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Since the AXDEVALM blog has been removed from MSDN, I will repost the agent computer name post here AS-IS, until we can get better official documentation. Original post: October 20, 2017

Feb 19, 2019 - Repost: Enabling X++ Code Coverage in Visual Studio and Automated Build

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Since the AXDEVALM blog has been removed from MSDN, I will repost the code coverage blog post here AS-IS (other than wrong capitalization in the XML code), until we can get better official documentation. Note that after this was published, I received a mixed response from developers. For many it worked, for others this did not work at all no matter what they tried… I have not been able to spend more time on investigating why for some people this doesn’t work. Original post: March 28, 2018

Jan 18, 2019 - Azure DevOps Release Pipeline

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Welcome to 2019, the year of the X++ developer!

Aug 14, 2018 - Query Functions: SysQueryRangeUtil Extensions

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Now that overlayering is a thing of the past, how does one add methods to SysQueryRangeUtil as explained in my old post from back in 2013?

Jun 20, 2018 - Moving to Extensions is Changing Your Mindset

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There’s a lot of change that has come with AX7 (Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations), ranging from plentiful technical changes but also the way implementations are being run. Any large change is usually disruptive to existing users of the product, and it takes time to learn the changes and get used to them. There’s been plenty of changes in some major releases of AX, but one type of change has now come around that we haven’t had to deal with before: rethinking how we design customizations.

Jun 14, 2018 - Beating the Drum on Packages and Models

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Even though I work on the product side these days and am crazy busy, I keep a close eye on the community out there. I have RSS feeds going for many blogs, I scan LinkedIn, I watch our insider Yammer groups, and I even follow an RSS feed of the official Community forum showing me all posts for AX/365 (yeah this is a lot but I scan through the titles quickly for specific things).

Jun 13, 2018 - Accidental Code Extensions

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Ok, I’ll preface this by saying I’m very much aware that the standard X++ code in platform and application has this issue too. Thanks for letting me know :-) But as the saying goes: do as I say - not as I do…

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