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• November 17, 2022

  Unity Unit Testing Beyond the Basics

  One of the things that’s great about Unity is that you can find pretty much whatever information you need online. Docs aren’t too bad, but the community has done forum posts, blogs, YouTubes and al...

• February 12, 2022

  20 Years of Dynamics

  Almost 20 years ago, in July of 2002, Microsoft acquired Dynamics AX. Several months later, in October 2002, I landed my first job and started learning X++. AX3.0 had just dropped, but the company ...

• November 22, 2021

  Changes To Internal Access modifier in X++

  In the upcoming April 2022 release (version 10.0.25/PU49), some changes will be introduced to how the internal access modifier works in X++. Although still not as strict as C#, it will at least fix...

• February 27, 2021

  Use The New Packaging in the Legacy Build Pipeline

  The legacy pipeline from the build VM has its own PowerShell script that generates the packages. However, it always puts the F&O platform version into the package file name which can make it mo...

• January 27, 2021

  ISV Licenses in Packages

  ISV licenses for Dynamics 365 F&O can only be applied using deployable packages. There are ISV license packages that only contain a license, and there are combined packages that have both the b...

• January 23, 2021

  Updating The Legacy Pipeline for Visual Studio 2017

  With the upcoming April 2021 release, support for Visual Studio 2015 will be dropped. If you’re building your code using a build VM deployed from LCS, you’re using the legacy pipeline. You will hav...

• January 18, 2021

  Including ISV Binaries in Your Package

  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 be...

• December 17, 2020

  The Making Of

  Welcome to my new site. I’ve been wanting to blog more, but include topics unrelated to Microsoft Dynamics. I wanted a place to put some of the game development stuff I do. And as I’m considering t...

• October 31, 2019

  Pushing, Dragging or Pulling an Industry Forward

  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 somewh...

• October 11, 2019

  Debugging woes with symbols: bug or feature?

  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 ...