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

I have used a bit of time this morning trying to figure out how to change the query in an RDP based SSRS report. I needed to change the report from using a query JmgPaySpecification to using the query JmgPaySpecificationExt instead. I started out by changing the     SRSReportQueryAttribute(queryStr(JmgPaySpecificationExt)) attribute in the classdeclaration of the RDP class and compiling it. Then I went to Visual Studio, opened the report and doing a rebuild on it to get it refreshed in the AOT. However that didn't seem to change anything, and doing a find on the SSRS-report searching all nodes and searching for JmgPaySpecification revealed: So doing the above changed nothing. The solution is, to go into Visual Studio opening the report: 1. Go to Datasets and highlight the Dataset 2. Change the Data Source Type from Report Data Provider type to Query.     This clears the Query setup. 3. Change the Data source Type back to Report Da...

When documenting test or setup it is advantageous to show as many values in the status bar as possible (especially the AOS name and company accounts id and maybe date and time), to be able to show in screen dumps what environment you are using. Here is a quick little job for setting up ALL fields to be shown in the status bar. Dynamics AX 2009: static void Job130(Args _args) {     #LOCALMACRO.FLAG_StatusLineHelpText             (1 << 0) #ENDMACRO     #LOCALMACRO.FLAG_StatuslineDatabase             (1 << 1) #ENDMACRO     #LOCALMACRO.FLAG_StatuslineWatch                (1 << 2) #ENDMACRO     #LOCALMACRO.FLAG_StatuslineNumLock              (1 << 3) #ENDMACRO     #LOCALMACRO.FLAG_StatuslineCapsLock             (1 << 4) #ENDMACRO   ...