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Axapta, C++ and Snowboarding

TS/RDC/RDP Failure in 2003/XP clients

If you are getting this error message when attempting to establish a Remote Desktop Connection...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 08/01/2007

Creating a report in X++ code and running

Here is a small job that demonstrates the main parts of build a report dynamically in X++ and...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 06/01/2007

X++ Server Threads

You can create threads in X++ to perform tasks in the background. Here is a vey simple class that...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 01/18/2007

Here is a Visual Studio macro that takes the highlighted text and starts a search of the msdn/msdn2...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 11/07/2006

Enable Debug on Server

When single stepping through X++ code on the client you can bump into code that can only execute on...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 10/17/2006

Command Line To Import Data

In Axapta 4.0 you can use the -startupcmd=autorun_ command line option to batch import data is two...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 10/03/2006

Live Meeting Error “An error has occured while creating an error report”

I was having the following bug with live meeting. Immediately after starting live meeting a small...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 04/20/2006

Args and the Axapta Construction Pattern

When looking through Axapta code you will see a lot of references to the type Args. This type is...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 03/28/2006

Using dimof() on a Dynamic Array

I stumbled across some older X++ code that was using the little know dynamic array. It took a while...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 03/22/2006

Know where the fall line is

Microsoft is full of interesting people. Some of the guys in my group go snowboarding once a week...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 03/15/2006

What are Menu item references on report control?

Menu item references are used to add alternative drill down links in a report. When you right click...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 03/07/2006

Making things "click"

I answer questions in discussion groups from time to time. Yesterday, I answered a question and got...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 03/07/2006

Axapta DLLs (What to Blog)

So, I was wondering what to blog about.... There are many things that I would like to discuss but at...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 02/10/2006

A Fresh Beginning

I am a new employee at Microsoft. It has been very exciting joining this team. I was quite suprised...

Author: DavidFerguson Date: 10/12/2005