Dynamics 365 FO / AX - thoughts on application development and customizations

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I learned something new from one of my colleagues today, which is always nice. I have often been irritated by the Dynamics AX 2012 CIL-builds ability to be uninformative. The incremental CIL-build does not always tell you why it is unable to finish an incremental build, and up until today my procedure for fixing problems to be able to cil-build incrementally has been to run a complete x++ compile, which takes quite a long time. You can examine the cause(s) of the CIL-build failure by doing the following: 1) Login on the AOS-server. 2) Find the AOS server folder 3) Go to the folder of the instance where you experienced CIL-build problems. 4) Goto folder Bin\XppIL 5) Find the file Dynamics.Ax:Application.dll.log (an example of a full path for the file could be C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Server\DEV_AX2012\bin\XppIL\Dynamics.Ax:Application.dll.log) In this file you can see the compile-errors which caused the incremental CIL-build to fail. Thank God for technic