Issues concerning X++
This blog deals with issues about X++
At the last technical conference, I ended by showing a little system that was designed to show the...
Date: 02/21/2015
by Peter VilladsenDecember 2013 The Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 system allows an individual table...
Date: 12/06/2013
We have created about 30 database ERDs (entity relationship diagrams) for tables of Microsoft...
Date: 05/23/2013
- Understanding the Difference There has been some confusion about the behavior of X++ arrays in...
Date: 09/17/2012
SUMMARY: You cannot pass the value of -1 for the ‘decimals’ parameter to the num2str X++...
Date: 03/08/2012
Garbage Collection in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 This blog entry investigates issues concerning the...
Date: 01/13/2012
At a Dynamics AX conference in summer 2011, I was asked for guidance on when to use C# compiled to...
Date: 12/07/2011
In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, we made compiler changes to make the X++ language more reliable and...
Date: 11/04/2011
In X++ you can optionally declare a string to have a specified maximum length: str 5 maxLen5String;...
Date: 10/06/2011
In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 we have interoperability features that enable your .NET Framework C#...
Date: 09/20/2011
In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 we introduced the ability to compile X++ code into .NET Framework CIL....
Date: 09/07/2011
In this post I want to cover some of the core functional aspects of the new delegates feature...
Date: 08/02/2011
I was looking at the API that we publish for the X++ compiler, and it struck me that it would be...
Date: 05/19/2011
There are situations where it is useful to workl with characters in X++. As you know, X++ does not...
Date: 05/10/2011
The launch of the next release of Microsoft Dynamics AX will be next year. There will be a Microsoft...
Date: 08/06/2010
Previously the X++ language allowed the LEFT and RIGHT keywords on definitions of string variables....
Date: 03/16/2010
There are several legacy X++ language functions found in Dynamics AX that we have been considering...
Date: 02/23/2010
This issue recently came up: How do you traverse the elements in an instance of an...
Date: 01/19/2010
As you may know, the Ax debugger does not feature conditional breakpoints. It does obviously allow...
Date: 10/10/2009
The channel 9 video:...
Date: 09/12/2009
The name "Axapta Foundation Classes" or just AFC for short, is given to a number of classes that are...
Date: 08/25/2009
High level programming languages and their compilers solve many problems for developers who want to...
Date: 06/29/2009
This post applies to Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2009 (see version note below). A. Enable Global...
Date: 06/25/2009
The Axapta foundation classes are a set of generally applicable classes that contain values of...
Date: 04/29/2009
In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, the X++ compiler is sometimes too flexible in its rules for code. It...
Date: 02/23/2009
In Ax 2009 the new cross company feature was introduced. It allows the programmer to specify a...
Date: 12/19/2008
The EP team has just created a blog about their stuff. These guys know their stuff, and are heavy...
Date: 06/05/2008
Let's face it - The forms and reports in Dynamics Ax are pretty bland. They're very good at...
Date: 03/31/2008
As you may know, it is possible in X++ to add integers to dates. The semantics are that the integer...
Date: 02/05/2008
When dealing with office integration scenarios and when calling APIs that are based on old COM...
Date: 01/15/2008
The X++ language features a macro expansion facility. With it, you can define macros, use macro...
Date: 11/12/2007
At the convergence conference in Copenhagen I wanted a demo that could demonstrate another way of...
Date: 11/08/2007
This demo was written for Convergence 2007 to showcase how Dynamics Ax can leverage managed code. In...
Date: 10/30/2007
We have been asked whether there is any difference between the two types of quotes that can be used...
Date: 10/29/2007
I'd like to share with you a description of some of the features that we've finished for the next...
Date: 09/10/2007
The runtime semantics of exceptions is peculiar in X++. The difference from the semantics from other...
Date: 09/08/2007
The following is based on material kindly provided by Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan. I have edited...
Date: 08/21/2007
We still see issues where programmers experience really bad things because they're misusing the str...
Date: 08/07/2007
Hello All I recently had the opportunity to do a webinar for a number of online participants, where...
Date: 07/30/2007
At today's webinar, I demonstrated how managed code can be called from a form, to get a bitmap...
Date: 07/11/2007
A question came up at today's webinar where a developer had a (presumably legitimate) reason to cast...
Date: 07/11/2007
Currently it is painful to use managed enumeration types in X++, although not impossible, This...
Date: 07/02/2007
As you all know, Dynamics AX supports 32 bit integers in its int datatype. However, sometimes you...
Date: 07/02/2007
At TechEd in Orlando a few weeks ago, I did a demostration of how InfoPath can be used as an easy...
Date: 06/27/2007
There is an issue concerning logical expressions (i.e. expressions that are evaluated to true or...
Date: 06/25/2007
Abstract: The following blog presents two useful ways to perform communication between classes in...
Date: 06/22/2007
Currently there is no way to pass X++ native arrays to CLR arrays and vice versa. Even it were...
Date: 06/20/2007
Hello, The X++ team is happy to provide the X++ blog as a vehicle of communication between the X++...
Date: 06/19/2007