Tag Archives: X++

Language Specific Number Formatting

Posted on May 1, 2013 by steve

I recently encountered a situation in AX where I needed to convert a number into a string that was specific to the current user’s language setting. AX provides a method called num2str for converting a real number into a formatted … Continue reading →

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Automatic Class Pack/Unpack Part 2

Posted on January 5, 2012 by steve

In a previous post I demonstrated a way to pack & unpack a class in a manner that would always be version independent without the use of macros. In AX 2012 Microsoft added attribute support for classes and methods. When … Continue reading →

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Posting a Transfer Order using X++

Posted on December 1, 2011 by steve

While working with unit testing in AX, I came across the need to generate a transfer order and post it to generate the associated tables. I have used the FormLetter classes for posting Sales Orders & Purchase Orders in the … Continue reading →

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Last Weekday of Month

Posted on July 28, 2011 by steve

This method will calculate the date of the last specified weekday in the month of the given date. static date lastWeekdayOfMonth(date _date, WeekDays _weekday){ int _endWeekDay, _diff; date _endDate = endmth(_date); ; _endWeekDay = dayofwk(_endDate); _diff = _endWeekDay – _weekday; … Continue reading →

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Calculating a File Hash

Posted on July 28, 2011 by steve

Some time ago a colleague presented me the task of computing a SHA256 hash for an output file. This hash would be stored in a table in a hexadecimal string format, along with the file info, to ensure that the … Continue reading →

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Exporting Project Definitions

Posted on July 12, 2011 by steve

I concocted the following bit of code to automate the task of exporting project definitions to XPO files. It is a simple bit of code that allows the user to dump the project definition files to a specified folder.

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Parsing Date Strings

Posted on May 11, 2011 by steve

Dynamics AX provides functions for parsing date strings into a date object but they are limited at best. The following static method uses the .Net date parsing functionality to create a X++ date object from any valid date string without … Continue reading →

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CLR Array to AX List

Posted on May 11, 2011 by steve

If you use any amount of CLRInterop programming in Dynamics AX you have probably at some point or another needed to use X++ code to interact with an array object passed back from a bit of CLR code. I created … Continue reading →

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Automatic Class Pack/Unpack

Posted on May 5, 2011 by steve

A common task associated with creating objects in Dynamics AX is giving them the ability to be packed into a container for storage as a SysLastValue entry. The common methodology used for this is to declare a version and a … Continue reading →

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