July 2007 - Posts
Hello All I recently had the opportunity to do a webinar for a number of online participants, where I related a lot of issues that people often see with X++, where X++ is coming from, what its role is and so on. I am pleased to provide this as a download
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At today's webinar, I demonstrated how managed code can be called from a form, to get a bitmap showing the customer's address. The bitmap is found on the address pane, and is updated as the user steps from one record to another. All the magic happens
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A question came up at today's webinar where a developer had a (presumably legitimate) reason to cast a real value into an integer value. The X++ language does not allow explicit casting (there's no support for it in the language), but the compiler will
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Currently it is painful to use managed enumeration types in X++, although not impossible, This example came up the other day: A user needed to access an enumeration type called PsDirectoryFilterEnum in a namespace called ProductStudio. He wanted to assign
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As you all know, Dynamics AX supports 32 bit integers in its int datatype. However, sometimes you need to transfer an int16 value to a managed method. Currently the easiest way to acheive this is by doing: static void Job2(Args _args) { System.Int16 short
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