X++ developers have been working without a version-control system for most of our careers. We had MorphX VCS for AX 2009 and the option to use TFVC in AX 2009 and AX 2012 but it wasn’t mandatory. Actually, and always from my experience, most of the projects used no VCS other than comments in the code. I’m not saying all, but in 10 years I’ve seen only one AX 2009 project using it.
If we told this to a non-X++ software developer, he would think we’re nuts and probably being foolish by not using a VCS. Who would risk at losing their ongoing work due to a stupid mistake? Because we were that, do you know someone who lost all the work done in a day after pressing the wrong button? I’m sure you do, I do!
One of the major changes we got with Finance and Operations has been the mandatory use of a version-control system.
What follows here is the product of several blog posts written during over a year at ariste.info. I’ve rewritten the content to adequate it to the changes and new features we’ve gotten in Azure DevOps for Microsoft Dynamics 365 FnO and tried to reorder it for an easier reading.
I will also try to keep this document updated if something changes, but I can’t guarantee that. If you find an error, you can contact me at adria (at) ariste (dot) info.
I hope this guide helps all the developers out there. We need a strong developer community which can make a correct use of these tools to make our Dynamics 365 projects successful.
