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• June 22, 2017

  Upgrades, Updates and Hotfixes in AX7

  In Dynamics 365 for Operations (affectionately known as AX7), there is a clear distinction between binary hotfixes and metadata hotfixes (in LCS shown as “binary updates” and “X++ updates”). The pr...

• March 31, 2017

  Dynamics 365 for Operation Application Extensibility

  At the 2017 Technical Conference, Microsoft announced the journey to support more customizations via extensions and will gradually remove the ability to over-layer the Application Suite, similar to...

• November 2, 2016

  Pointing Your New Build Definition to a Different Branch

  This will be quick, I promise! Many people ask about branching and I promise some day I’ll revisit my “how we do development” article to reflect my personal opinions on simple branch setups for AX7...

• October 4, 2016

  The Overall Concept of Extensions in AX 7

  Unfortunately Dynamics AX 2012 also introduced a concept of extensions, which I blogged about here, but it’s not quite the same thing. The extensions from AX 2012 have sort of transformed in what i...

• September 29, 2016

  The Package Split

  After reviewing the new paradigms in AX 7, it’s time to put these paradigms to practice and review the current and future state of the Dynamics AX application code. To recap, a package corresponds ...

• May 25, 2016

  Design-Compile-Run Part4: Paradigms in AX7

  For the fourth and final part of this design, compile, run series we’ll review the structure of the AX7 model store in light of what we’ve reviewed in Part 3 (and contrast it to AX 2012 as explaine...

• May 5, 2016

  Design-Compile-Run Part3: Design, Compile, Run in AX7

  This is Part 3 in my design, compile, run series. Please first read Part 1 about paradigms, and especially Part 2 on design, compile, run in AX 2012. In part 2 I explained the design time, compile...

• May 4, 2016

  Design-Compile-Run Part2: Design, Compile, Run in AX 2012

  In Part 2 of this design, compile, run series we’ll look what design, compile, run actually means in AX 2012. If you haven’t read Part 1 about the paradigms in AX 2012, please do. We’ve looked at ...

• May 2, 2016

  Design-Compile-Run Part1: 2012 Paradigms

  If you haven’t already, please read the intro first. In this first post, we’ll discuss development paradigms such as modelstore, layers, models, AOT artifacts and more. If you’re reading this chan...

• April 28, 2016

  Design-Compile-Run Intro

  Over the last few years I’ve talked a lot (both online and offline) about how we should all strive to put software engineering practices back into AX. What I mean by that is that we’ve become lazy ...