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Blogroll

Just added a blogroll to the right bottom of my blog template. This blogroll is generated by Google Reader and represents all blogs in english I have subscribed to.

How to setup Ax 4 on a computer which does not belong to any domain

Just published the recipe @axaptapedia

It works with Ax 5 CTPs also.

PS. stealed from AxForum

Comparing the Microsoft and Google tool chains

An interesting post about tools (software and hardware) which are used by Microsoft and Google developers.

By the way, I have two monitors too, and it is very useful for development in Ax, especially, for debugging display methods: when I had application and a debugger on the same screen, it was an ether not enough screen space (when debugger and application were placed side-by-side), or a deadloop (when I close the debugger, the underlying window starts to repaint, so display method was called again and debugger appears again).

Gantt

Gannt charts in Ax are displayed Netronic VARCHART XGantt ActiveX control. If you follow the link you can download CHM and PDF documentation (about 900 pages) on it...

FarManager 1.80 will be Open Source

Far Manager1.80 will be Open Source.

FarManager is my favorite Norton Commander-like file manager.

The real power of this piece of software is in plugins. For example, a friend of mine had implemented a nice IDE for BAAN ERP based on FAR. And I also have some experience in this field.

Maybe, it looks weird for people, who do not remember DOS and NC, but is really powerful

MS CRM in dotnetrocks

It is announced that the next tuesday a new dotnetrocks podcast show on MS CRM will be available:

10/30/2007
David Yack Talks Microsoft CRM!

AFAIR it is the first DotNetRocks show related to Dynamics

new version of the DEV_CreateStandardsMethods extendion

The extension now can add suffix to created methods and is fully translated to english. For example parameters from the screenshot will lead to creation of findByGUID and existByGUID methods. See axaptapedia article for download and details.

Tabax is translated to Portuguese (BR)

Thank you, Ricardo

download language file

WF vs WWF

from here

Dianne Siebold's blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/dsiebold

Just found a new blog via Google alerts. Posts are dedicated to AIF and developer's documentation

Print editor hotkeys

Just uploaded a printable version of editor hotkeys. I like lookup facilities of the code editor (F2 for tables and fields), but somtimes forget key combinations. Now I have printed it and sticked it to have it in front of my eyes.

Maybe it can be useful for you also...

Tabax is one year old

About one year ago the first version of tabax was released to public

Great Thanx to all people who took part in Tabax development: AndyD, Ivan, OIP and others.

And for i18n: Manel, Helmut, Romain Gasnier

BTW, Google Alerts gave me some Brazilian blog in Portugues and the only thing, that I can read there was Tabax :)

Below there are two screenshots:

A sidax predecessor, which was developed sombody from axforum




First internal version of sidax (which is two year old now).

Video: howto drag and drop nodes from XPO to application

watch it here

Tabax 0.3.2

download
Changes:

• AxPath: use of primary key of the record instead of recID
  
• French localization (thanx to Romain Gasnier)
  
• If tabax can not find it's resources on disk it tries to download them from Ax resources (useful for Ax 4 installations)

Unwanted fields fetching when selecting by unique index

UPD: Sorry, EmplTable is not good example - because of cache enabled. But this behavoiur is tested with a specially created table with CacheLookup==None.

Last friday i was optimizing a form with a lof of display fields with an implementation like the following:

display EmplName emplName()
{
 return EmplTable::find(this.EmplID).Name;
}

The one of sources to increase performance of such code is to select only fields which will be used lately. So I have replaced this code with the following:

display EmplName emplName()
{
 return this.EmplID ?
        (select Name from EmplTable
             where EmplTable.emplID==this.EmplID).Name
        :
        "";
}

but when I enabled SQL tracing, I found, that this code producess select with ALL fields of EmplTable.
It was strange... With a great help of my co worker, i've found the following:

• when there is only fields of any unique index in the where condition, all fields are fetched
  
• when there is an extra field in the condition, only required fields is selected (and the extra fields in where)
• So I converted previously mentioned methods to the following:
  

display EmplName emplName()
{
 return this.EmplID ?
        (select Name from EmplTable
             where EmplTable.emplID==this.EmplID
                     &&
                     EmplTable.recID
          ).Name
        :
        "";
}

TabaxLite

TabaxLite is a stripped down version of Tabax for end users.
It is focused solely on the window management and does not require any external component

Hosting the Windows Workflow Foundation designer

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the new MS technology. It comes with .NET framework 3.0.

It is interesting that workflow designer can be hosted by any app (here is an example).

And maybe someone can make an ActiveX which can be hosted by Axapta form (here is an example of ActiveX control implemented in C#)

Sending attachments using the "mailto:" protocol

It works with Outlook at least. I think this example job is enough

static void Test_MailTo(Args _args)
{
   str recepient='mbelugin@gmail.com';
   str subject = 'Test';
   str attachment = @'c:\AUTOEXEC.BAT';
   str url = strFmt(
       'mailto:%1?Subject=%2&attachments=""%3""',

       recepient,
       subject,
       attachment
   );
;
   WinApi::shellExecute(url);
}

My first attempt to make a screencast

This screencast is showing TabaxLite in action.