Feature management has been around in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations for some time now. Before that features were enabled through flighting running a SQL query on dev and UAT boxes (and the DSE team would do it on production).
Now we have a nice workspace showing all the available features and flighting is still around too. The main difference between flighting and features is that flighting is enabled to a selected group of customers, like a preview of a feature.
Unless you’ve been working for an ISV there’s a high percentage of probabilities that you’ve never cared about Dynamics Best Practices (BP), or maybe you have. I haven’t worked for an ISV myself but back when I started working with AX I was handed the development BP document (and you can download the old Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 development best practices white paper PDF from here) and I’ve tried to follow most of them when…
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 THIS POST IS LONG OUTDATED AND VISUAL STUDIO 2019 IS THE DEFAULT IDE SINCE DYNAMICS 365 FINANCE AND OPERATIONS VERSION 10.0.21 AND THE VHD SINCE OCTOBER 2021 RELEASE.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.…
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…
