Best Practices – Technical Best Practices for Dynamics AX

  • June 28, 2010
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While surfing on the web about Ax Best-Practices I found the following link on Packt Publishing. I think this is a verry good list of things a Ax developer should do while programming. This article is a part of the book ‘Quality Assurance for Dynamics AX-Based ERP Solutions‘, maybe I’ll read it.

The Ax Infolog

  • May 7, 2010
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Wel all know the small dialog that gives the user usefull information about what is happening in Ax. In this post I will tell u some more about this. You can add information to the Infolog by calling: Infolog.add(…) info(…) warning(…) or checkfailed(…) error(…) You can add some structure in it by using setPrefix(…) Using … Continue Reading

Tip for overriding methods

  • April 19, 2010
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There is a simple and generic way to force overriding a method you created. To do so you just need create your new method and place a ‘throw error’ statement in it. To finish you can add the static method missingOverride from the error class and the funcName() to your error. Now when this method … Continue Reading

Working with numbersequences – Keep In Mind

  • February 17, 2010
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When you are using a Number Sequence, keep in mind that a Continuous Number Sequence is slower than a non-continuous. The reason is that the system creates a record in the table NumberSequenceList (with the status Active) and cleans it up later during TTSCOMMIT. Performance tip: You can improve the performance of a process that creates many … Continue Reading

Placement of code

  • February 16, 2010
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When you are programming, you have to think about where placing you’re code. Always try to place you’re code nearest to the source so it can be manipulated easily. For instance code that manipulates tables should be placed in that tables methods. Best Practice: Try to minimize the x++ code in forms for the following … Continue Reading