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Memory leaks and profiling with .Net

I wrote some moths ago an article about the GC and highlighted some particularities (unsafe and unmanaged code, disposing and finalizing, etc). When you are developing with .Net you will be sometimes faced to memory or resource leaks. Especially if you Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:48 PM by Florian DITTGEN | 0 Comments

Importing Leads and Contacts

You can find a very good description on our team blog (EMEA Dynamics AX Support) how to import leads and contact Xml files with Dynamics Ax 2009 here . The problem you will be faced by using this is, that you can’t import data with non Ascii characters, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:11 AM by Florian DITTGEN | 0 Comments

RPC error 1702 when calling a WinAPI method from a batch job

You probably already noticed that error messages are sometimes not really helpful when you are trying to understand a problem. The following code creates such misleading error message: 1: public void run() 2: { 3: ; 4: if (WinApi::folderExists( @"c:\temp\")) Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:55 PM by Florian DITTGEN | 3 Comments

Enums and localization… in X++

On Msdn enumerators (Enums) are described as: X++ does not support constants but has an enumerable type (Enum), which is a list of literals. You need to create an Enum in the Application Object Tree (AOT) before you can use it. Enum values are represented Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:14 PM by Florian DITTGEN | 3 Comments
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How to develop with multiple developers on an Enterprise Portal (Ax2009) application

Many partners asked if it would be possible to have just one Enterprise Portal Server (WSS3.0 or MOSS + EP components) for their EP-development as described in the following scheme:   The answer is no. Theoretically it would be possible to have one Read More...
Posted Monday, December 22, 2008 11:06 AM by Florian DITTGEN | 1 Comments
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The CLR for X++ programmers

Dynamics Ax offers since Ax4 a .Net support ( BC.Net, EP and CLR objects with X++ ). As a matter of fact .Net will have a more and more important influence on Dynamics Ax since .Net is the glue of the Microsoft product stack . Sharepoint, BizTalk, SQL Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 06, 2008 3:09 PM by Florian DITTGEN | 4 Comments

Axapta 3: ADO instead of ODBC or install the SP6

I recently did face a quite annoying problem with the OdbcConnection-class on Axapta 3 (client build number: 1951.8). I could access my DB2 (9.5)database without problems, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to close the connection. The only way to close Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:21 PM by Florian DITTGEN | 1 Comments
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Passing CLR-object between an Ax-client and the AOS

As explained on msdn you can’t pass an CLR-object between a Ax-client and the AOS. So the following example will work for the client-to-client but will fail for the client-to-server scenario: The code for the CLR-class: 1: using System; 2: 3: namespace Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 11:39 AM by Florian DITTGEN | 1 Comments
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Handling .Net exceptions with X++

In my last blog I was talking about casting CLR-objects in X++. In the code example you might have noticed the following code: 1: catch (Exception::CLRError) 2: { 3: //we'll discuss this later... 4: } .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:26 AM by Florian DITTGEN | 0 Comments
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Casting CLR-objects with X++

Casting CLR-objects with X++ isn’t that obvious as it is in .Net languages as C# or even VB.Net. The following code will not compile because of the incompatibility of the two types System.Net.WebRequest and System.Net.HttpWebRequest even if you are allowed Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:12 AM by Florian DITTGEN | 0 Comments
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ReportViewer

If you need a great reporting tool, or you want to use the RDLs from the Reporting Services 2005 without a SQL Server 2005 license, then this link will be very interesting for you (or maybe you already know the ReportViewer? ): http://www.gotreportviewer.com/ Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:20 AM by Florian DITTGEN | 0 Comments
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How to implement FileSystemWatcher with X++

The CLR offers with System.IO.FileSystemWatcher a very simple to use class which can be used with X++ in order to identify new created, renamed, deleted and changed (The change of a file or folder. The types of changes include: changes to size, attributes, Read More...
Posted Monday, September 01, 2008 1:44 PM by Florian DITTGEN | 0 Comments
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Adding dynamically UserControls to a report with X++

This is a pretty simple example how to add an UserControl to an existing Report. But since the documentation isn’t talking a lot about here’s the code: public boolean fetch() { ReportSection reportSection; ReportTextControl textControl; ; reportSection Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 12:05 PM by Florian DITTGEN | 0 Comments
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X++ in the BC.Net AppDomain and on the AOS

As I already wrote before , the BC.Net is an Ax-client and as an Ax-client able to execute X++-code. So your X++ method are by default executed within the calling AppDomain . In order to identify the AppDomain in which the X++ is executed we write two Read More...
Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 11:02 AM by Florian DITTGEN | 0 Comments
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Troubleshooting a simple BC.Net application

Here's a simple checklist if you have problems to connect to the AOS (Dynamics Ax 4) with the BC.Net. Your code might look like this: 1: Microsoft.Dynamics.BusinessConnectorNet.Axapta ax; 2: string configuration = " C:\\Sample.axc " ; //see step 3 3: Read More...
Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 1:06 PM by Florian DITTGEN | 0 Comments
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