Martin Dráb

If I need to extra metadata of a D365FO application, my preferred way is the new metadata API . But sometimes the requirement is so simple that it’s sufficient to query source XML files directly. For example, this all what’s needed to get a list of…

If I need to extra metadata of a D365FO application, my preferred way is the new metadata API . But sometimes the requirement is so simple that it’s sufficient to query source XML files directly. For example, this all what’s needed to get a list of…

Somebody asked in the Community forum for examples of display methods in views in the standard D365FO application. It’s not necessary to remember any concrete examples – finding all such methods is very simple. The right tool for this purpose is Metadata…

Somebody asked in the Community forum for examples of display methods in views in the standard D365FO application. It’s not necessary to remember any concrete examples – finding all such methods is very simple. The right tool for this purpose is Metadata…

Do you have many tabs in Visual Studio with designers and code editors and do you struggle to make sense of them? It’s not surprising – we often work with many things at once and some elements even have same names (e.g. VendTable table and form), which…

Do you have many tabs in Visual Studio with designers and code editors and do you struggle to make sense of them? It’s not surprising – we often work with many things at once and some elements even have same names (e.g. VendTable table and form), which…

FormObservableLink class is useful for refreshing display and edit methods in D365FO. You create an instance variable of FormObservableLink type in a form, initialize it and call its observe() method in display/edit methods that you need to refresh on…

FormObservableLink class is useful for refreshing display and edit methods in D365FO. You create an instance variable of FormObservableLink type in a form, initialize it and call its observe() method in display/edit methods that you need to refresh on…

FormObservableLink class is useful for refreshing display and edit methods in D365FO. You create an instance variable of FormObservableLink type in a form, initialize it and call its observe() method in display/edit methods that you need to refresh on…

I recently ran into an unfortunate limitation of .NET Interop from X++ (in D365FO). I wanted to check if an X++ object is of a given type, nevertheless the type used for the variable declaration was a .NET interface. Here is an example: using Microsoft…

I recently ran into an unfortunate limitation of .NET Interop from X++ (in D365FO). I wanted to check if an X++ object is of a given type, nevertheless the type used for the variable declaration was a .NET interface. Here is an example: using Microsoft…

In 2018, I wrote the blog post Throwing managed exceptions from X++ in D365FO , where I pondered upon how throwing proper exceptions objects in X++ would be beneficial. This is still true. I also showed a proof of concept how it can be done despite the…

In 2018, I wrote the blog post Throwing managed exceptions from X++ in D365FO , where I pondered upon how throwing proper exceptions objects in X++ would be beneficial. This is still true. I also showed a proof of concept how it can be done despite the…

When saving a record, I had to check which fields had changed and react in a special way if only certain fields (and not any other) changed their value. I could iterate all fields and compare their values in two table buffers (the original and the…

When saving a record, I had to check which fields had changed and react in a special way if only certain fields (and not any other) changed their value. I could iterate all fields and compare their values in two table buffers (the original and the…

When I read Evaldas Landauskas’s blog post Development guidelines: Prefix Vs. Suffix , I thought I would write a comment below the post and share a few ideas, but then I decided that it’d be better to write my own blog post. Here I have a much better…

When I read Evaldas Landauskas’s blog post Development guidelines: Prefix Vs. Suffix , I thought I would write a comment below the post and share a few ideas, but then I decided that it’d be better to write my own blog post. Here I have a much better…

The product that used to be called Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (I truly don’t know how I should call it these days) allows defining security elements both by developers (delivered together with code) and by power users though GUI…

The product that used to be called Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (I truly don’t know how I should call it these days) allows defining security elements both by developers (delivered together with code) and by power users though GUI…

Today I took the beta exam MB-500: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer ; I think it’s going to be made generally available on January. I was already planning to take it when I received an email with a significant discount, therefore…

Today I took the beta exam MB-500: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer ; I think it’s going to be made generally available on January. I was already planning to take it when I received an email with a significant discount, therefore…

There is a trend in the .NET world to make time-consuming calls asynchronous, to prevent applications from getting blocked when waiting for a response from a web service and things like that. Many existing APIs were enhanced with asynchronous variants…

There is a trend in the .NET world to make time-consuming calls asynchronous, to prevent applications from getting blocked when waiting for a response from a web service and things like that. Many existing APIs were enhanced with asynchronous variants…

When working with metadata in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation, the usual approach is using the MetadataSupport class . It’s a simplified interface to actual metadata classes, which is easy to use, but it doesn’t expose everything. For instance…

When working with metadata in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation, the usual approach is using the MetadataSupport class . It’s a simplified interface to actual metadata classes, which is easy to use, but it doesn’t expose everything. For instance…