Robin Kretzschmar

[D365] Module reference in model cannot be located

Sometimes it happens on a D365 DevBox that after a get latest or some copy operation in the PackagesLocalDirectory folder the following error occurs after using "Refresh models" in Visual Studio: Module Reference 'yyy' in model 'zzz' cannot be located. This is an indication that model store is in a

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[D365] Check Version without client (files)

Checking the Platform Update Version from the client is easy: Click the questionmark icon in the top right corner and select "About" to see the version info. But what to do if the client is not available (for example because a build is failing)? In earlier versions it was possible

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[D365] How to update ISV solutions with version control

Often one or more ISV solution can be found in larger projects. Either if they are bought to solve a specific problem in shorter time or to introduce industry specific functionality, they receive frequent updates and the project team or customer needs to deal with them. It makes sense to

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[D365] The parent of additional control was not found on the base form

In a project with more than 3 ISV solutions installed we encountered the following compile error from time to time while updating to a new version of ISV Solutions: [AxFormExtension/EcoResProductDetailsExtended.ourOwnExtension/Controls/FormExtensionControlnhogurxf1/Parent]:The parent 'ButtonGroupNameFromISV' of the additional control 'FormExtensionControlnhogurxf1' was not found on the base form.

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[D365] Import export projects fail without clear error DMFExecutePackage unhandled exception

We recently upgraded to PU39 and restored a database from a UAT environment to a Test environment (DevTest). After that import and export projects failed without a clear error message. The eventlog stated the following: Application: DMFExecutePackage.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to

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[D365] How to get SSRS Report design from form letter print management

There is a way to get the default report layout by code using the following line: PrintMgmtDocType::construct(PrintMgmtDocumentType::SalesOrderInvoice).getDefaultReportFormat(); Finding the report design from the print management settings for a report type is easy on the surface. As example, navigate to Accounts receivable > Setup > Forms > Form setup, select

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[D365] Fix - The devInstall option is not applicable to the current deployable package

There is a good documentation on how to install a deployable package on the various types of environments in the Microsoft Docs which I don't want to repeat here. Recently there was a need to run AXUpdateInstaller devinstall on a Tier-1 Microsoft managed LCS environment for a Platform Update package

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[D365] How to add custom report designs to print management lookup

Creating a new SSRS Report design for a customer is not a big deal. Overwriting the default report design for a specific document type in the print management is also simple, it just needs an event handler on PrintMgmtDocType.getDefaultReportFormatDelegate with a switch statement on the document type that modifies

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[D365] DevBox performance enhancements

After searching to enhance the performance of D365 DevBoxes I tried a lot of stuff. During the analysis one thing stood out clearly: Windows Defender plays a huge role regarding the performance of Visual Studio, the IIS, Database Sync, Report Server and other parts of the D365 environment running on

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[D365] Check .NET version with PowerShell prior to PU37/10.0.13 release

As Microsoft states in the requirements for the PU37 / 10.0.13 release coming in October 2020, the Visual Studio tools require Microsoft .NET 4.7.2 runtime. You can read the full details in a blog post from Microsoft here. On-premise Tier1 environments (DevBoxes) need to be updated manually

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[D365] Get list of Designs of SRS Report by code

Recently the requirement to list all designs of a SRSReport came up and the Metadata API is a good fit for the task to accomplish this with as less lines of code as possible. The example below will add a static method to the standard class SrsReportHelper to have it

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[D365] SysClassRunner as JavaScript bookmark with parameters

With D365fO we have couple of ways to run classes in our environments. The first one is to make a menu item, attach the class to it and put that on a form to call it then. Another one is to set the class as startup object for a project

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[D365] How to add a custom report type to form letter print management setup

The docs for D365 F&O describe the process of adding a custom report design to the form letter print management setup very well. But do you know how to introduce a completely new print document type and add an entry to the form letter setup of a module? Create

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[D365] Add display method via Extension

Adding a display method to a standard table in D365 can be confusing because most parts of the documentation state it should be implemented as static method with the table as only parameter and writte in the control's Data Method like this: MyClass::staticDisplayMethod. This does not only look ugly

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[D365] Form Adaptors in separate Model

When task recordings are used to generate automatic tests, form adaptors are needed in order to make the controls available to the test code. One way to generate or update them is to set the property Generate Form Adaptors on the project settings to True: Those classes should not be

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[D365] Find TableId from Name

TableId's are not really important anymore with D365. But sometimes it can be handy to find it out without creating a runnable class and call tableName2Id(). One use case can be if a table relation is based on TableIds (for example product attribute values) and you want to know the

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[D365] Outer join in view with NULL enum column

Sometimes an outer join is necessary in a query to enrich the resulting records with additional data. A recent requirement to filter records of a Data Entity based on an enum field looked simple (just add ranges) but turned out to be more complex. Goal: filter records of Data Entity

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[D365] Create Azure feed from build pipeline

Using the pipelines in Azure DevOps to build D365fO packages is a great way to automate builds and share the resulting artifacts. A great way to provide the generated (deployable) packages to other systems is using Azure Artifact Feeds. Creating a feed in DevOps Switch to the DevOps project you

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[D365] DB Sync changed data type on field

When changing the data type of a table field (let's say from integer to string) in D365fO, the DB sync will work on the maschine of the developer that made the changes. When this change is checked in and someone else is trying to synchronize his database with this change,

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[D365] Azure Dev Ops build with git as source control

In a previous article I shared the transition from TFVC to GIT as source control provider with Dynamics 365 for Operations (D356fO). Microsoft does not support Azure Dev Ops (VSTS) automated builds for git repositories by default. When deploying a build environment from LCS, it creates a template build definition