Nikolaos Mäenpää's Blog Posts

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Technical Architect Blog

Nikolaos Mäenpää on 4/5/2019 7:00:00 PM

Issues after installing binary updates on local dev machine

Recently I've seen many people struggling with different issues after updating their local dev machine (VHD) with D365FO binary updates (for example 8.1.3 PU23 or 10.0 PU24). It might be that ISV binaries don't show up in AOT, or code changes don't take...

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Technical Architect Blog

Nikolaos Mäenpää on 3/1/2019 9:52:00 PM

Get data from AOT View in table browser

We all know that Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations tables can be browsed via the user interface by using the SysTableBrowser class ( https://[yourD365FOURL]/?mi=SysTableBrowser&tableName=[MyTableName] ). But did you know that you can also use the...

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Technical Architect Blog

Nikolaos Mäenpää on 2/21/2019 7:00:00 AM

Clear ADO workspace cache in dev VM

Recently I was troubleshooting a scenario where a developer could not map the Azure DevOps Metadata folder with their local AOSService/PackagesLocalDirectory in the development environment. They got an error message saying that PackagesLocalDirectory...

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Technical Architect Blog

Nikolaos Mäenpää on 2/12/2019 11:00:00 AM

Speed up your D365FO development environment

How can it be so slow? Many Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations developers are struggling with performance issues in the development environment. Using the code editor, building the project, starting the application and debugging seem to take forever...

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Technical Architect Blog

Nikolaos Mäenpää on 1/8/2019 12:28:00 AM

Working with build pipelines (build definitions)

If you have already some experience with Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations development, you are most likely familiar with setting up a build system. If not, you should start with the official documentation . In addition to that, you can read my...

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Issues after installing binary updates on local dev machine

Get data from AOT View in table browser

Clear ADO workspace cache in dev VM

Speed up your D365FO development environment

Working with build pipelines (build definitions)