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Deep Best practice checks with layer filtering in compiler

You can (and should) enable best practice checks for the MorphX and X++ developer environment, which is similar to the dotNET FxCop code analysis tool. Though the standard Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 code does not have any best practice errors, you can still find a lot of warning and info type problems.

Update: Microsoft just released a new version of the BP document, which is available here: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Best Practices White Paper

To enable best practice checks, go to the menu under Tools/Options, then press the Compiler button on the right. You have to set Diagnostic Level 4 to enable the compiler to check your code for necessary and possible optimizations.

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Label search with an exact match

If you are trying to look up a label under the menu Tools/Development tools/Label/Label editor, the search string matches your label string with a wildcard.

For search strings like “item” it might display many hits, and takes a lot of time to get the results. But if you enter the label on an object property and you do the lookup there, an exact match search is executed.

If you take a look on \AOTClassesSysLabel::searchStringBuildExactStr(LabelType _searchString) you can find the solution there as a macro.

If you use the same search term, then you will get an exact match:
“<item>”

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