In Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations we can execute the CRUD operations from code in two different ways, record-per-record or set-based. Microsoft’s recommendation is to always use set-based operations, if possible, as you can check on the Implementation Best Practices for Dynamics 365: Performance best practices for a successful Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations implementation session from last June’s Business Applications Summit. Why? Set-based Vs. Record-per-record When we run a query in MSDyn365FO…
WARNING! THIS POST IS LONG OUTDATED AND VISUAL STUDIO 2022 IS THE DEFAULT IDE SINCE DYNAMICS 365 FINANCE AND OPERATIONS VERSION 10.0.40 AND THE VHD SINCE APRIL 2024 RELEASE. Tired of developing in Visual Studio 2015? You feel you’ve been left and forgotten in the past? Worry no more, you can use Visual Studio 2017/2019 to develop Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations! What are the advantages? Absolutely none at all! Visual Studio will…
If you ever need to consume a SOAP web service from Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, the first step you should take is asking the people responsible for that web service to create a REST version. If that’s not possible this post is for you. I’ll use this SOAP web service I found online at http://www.dneonline.com/calculator.asmx for the example, it’s a simple service-calculator with four methods to add, substract, multiply or divide two integers.…
I’ve been a X++ developer for almost 10 years, that’s the 100% of my professional career, excluding internships. During these 10 years I’ve seen the product evolve and, in my opinion, the last three years with #MSDyn365FO have been the most exciting by far as I’ve said several times. The move from the notepad-like MorphX to Visual Studio, Azure DevOps and the asset upload and release tasks make me feel like a real software developer.…
During the past week I attended the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS). It was my first time in an event like this and the experience has been wonderful and intense (and tiring). The event took place from Sunday to Tuesday and traveling from Madrid to Atlanta and back, including a 5 hour delay in Toronto and a 6 hour layover in Newark, in just 5 days was exhausting. The event’s organization has been really really…
At this point I’m 99% sure almost all of us have been asked the “can we change the theme color to the one of our company/brand?” question. While this is unfortunately not possible what we can do is defining a different theme for each company. This is just a proof of concept. I still haven’t managed to successfully change the theme when the DataArea is changed using the company list. The standard By default each…
READ THIS!!! This is a really old and outdated post. Microsoft is already offering native built-in monitoring and telemetry using Application Insights for Dynamics 365 F&O. You can learn more in this Learn article: Monitoring and telemetry using Application Insights. First of all… DISCLAIMER: think twice before using this on a productive environment. Then think again. And if you finally decide to use it, do it in the most cautious and light way. Why does…
One of the options to integrate MSDyn365FO with external systems is using the data entities with REST services and OData. To use OData the entity must have its IsPublic property set to Yes: Otherwise, if it´s an standard entity, we´ll need to duplicate it because it´s not possible to change the property value in an extension. If we´re doing an integration with an external system using OData to create new records in the ERP, we…
You can read my complete guide on Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations and Azure DevOps. In the first part of this post I wrote about Azure DevOps value and how to set it up in MSDyn365FO. I want to start this second part with a little rant. As I said in the first part, those who have been working with AX for several years were used to not using version-control systems. MSDyn365FO has…
You can read my complete guide on Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations and Azure DevOps. One of the major changes we got with Dynamics 365 has been the mandatory use of a source control system. In older versions, we had MorphX VCS for AX 2009 and the option to use TFS in AX 2009 and AX 2012, but it wasn’t mandatory. Actually, always from my experience, I think most of the projects used no…