X++ and Notepad++

Klaas Deforche — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:13:19 +0000

I notice that a lot of people are looking for a way to syntax color their xpo’s when viewing them in Notepad++.

There is an article on Axaptapedia that covers this, that includes a sample xml snippet you can use.

For some reason though, when you google “x++ notepad++”, the Axaptapedia page is nowhere to be found.

I’ve also created a custom language based on the one on wikipedia, that uses colors that resemble the ones in the X++ editor a bit more:

name="XPP_XPO" ext="xpo">
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caseIgnored="no" />
comment="no" commentLine="no" />
words1="no" words2="no" words3="no" words4="no" />
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name="Delimiters">"'0"'0>
name="Folder+">SOURCE { CLASS METHODS PROPERTIES CONTROL CONTAINER ARRAY INDEX FORM OBJECTBANK DATASOURCE OBJECTPOOL FIELDLIST JOINS DESIGN TYPEELEMENTS TYPEREFERENCES USERTYPE FIELDS GROUPS GROUPFIELDS GROUP DATAFIELD INDICES INDEXFIELDS REFERENCES REFERENCE FIELDREFERENCES DELETEACTIONS BEGINNODE MENUITEM MENU>
name="Folder-">ENDSOURCE } ENDMETHODS ENDCLASS ENDPROPERTIES ENDCONTROL ENDCONTAINER ENDARRAY ENDFORM ENDOBJECTBANK ENDDATASOURCE ENDOBJECTPOOL ENDFIELDLIST ENDJOINS ENDDESIGN ENDTYPEELEMENTS ENDTYPEREFERENCES ENDUSERTYPE ENDFIELDS ENDGROUPS ENDGROUPFIELDS ENDGROUP ENDINDEXFIELDS ENDINDICES ENDFIELDREFERENCES ENDREFERENCE ENDREFERENCES ENDDELETEACTIONS ENDTABLE ENDNODE ENDPROJECT ENDDATAFIELD ENDMENUITEM ENDMENU>
name="Operators">' ! " ?>
name="Comment">1/* 2*/ 0//>
name="Words1">Formatversion: Configuration: language directory company user client fetchahead opencursors database dsn sqluser hint sqlbuffer log hassqlpwd sqlpwd sqlparm retry dbserversqltrace haswarnings warnings share bindir startupmsg servermask localappl localappldoc locallabel localsysdoc applshare applexclusive doclanguage startupcmd logdir hascompwd compwd hasserveridletimeout serveridletimeout connectionidletimeout querytimelimit extracmdline port createdsn createdsn_tcpipport aos allowunauth exposeserverprers useserverprers sqlformliterals sqlcomplexliterals sqloraclefirstrowsfix ignoredatasourceindex aosencryption xppdebug dbcli ociconnectservice ociservice ocihost ocidbid ocitcpipport ociuser hasocipwd ocipwd preloadthresholdmsec preloadthresholdrecords dbunicodeenabled newconnectionretrydelayms newconnectionretrycount cachesynctime _clientmode _clientadname application broadcast internet aol aolcode sql native dbserver sqltrace exposeserverprinters useserverprinters ***Element FRMVERSION str container int select firstonly where while for Filename if return void public super element Return Yes No Delayed First Auto Default Normal Watch Vertical NoAccess Main Column width None Outside Opaque Button face View Grid Window background Highlight text Left Right only Text info run Version Else error Args Raised height Horizontal flush right boolean Common QueryRun FormTreeItem class Set FormTreeControl map anytype Dialog SysDictField this New new Query QueryBuildRange else QueryBuildDataSource Array mapiterator ttsbegin ttscommit FileName SaxReader SaxErrorHandler SaxAttributes TextBuffer protected catch try Called from classDeclaration Arrow USERTYPEVERSION TABLEVERSION FIELD Integer Absolute AutoReport AutoLookup REFERENCETYPE NORMAL static Miscellaneous Delete Not specified String Memo Cascade PROJECTVERSION SHARED JOBVERSION NoYes private null count Map DictTable break ttsBegin ttsCommit Error Exception true sum server DictField Counter throw join abstract extends endif index continue false switch case Version Restricted InnerJoin Active Standard Display VERSION MNUVERSION>
name="Words2">Text Int Name Table Index Company CounterField AllowCheck AllowEdit AllowCreate AllowDelete StartPosition AutoSearch AutoNotify AutoQuery OnlyFetchActive JoinSource LinkType DelayActive InsertAtEnd InsertIfEmpty Left Top Width Height Visible Caption TitleDatasource Frame WindowResize WindowType SaveSize SaveSize HideToolbar SetCompany ColorScheme CssClass ShowWebHelp BackgroundColor ImageName ImageResource Imagemode Mode SubmitMethod SupportReload LocalWebMenu AllowDocking Font FontSize Italic Underline Bold CharacterSet LabelFont LabelFontSize LabelItalic LabelUnderline LabelBold LabelCharacterSet DataSource TopMargin BottomMargin LeftMargin RightMargin ArrangeWhen ArrangeMethod Columns Columnspace ArrangeGuide HideIfEmpty AlignChildren AlignChild AllowUserSetup NeededAccessLevel AutoDeclaration VerticalSpacing Enabled Skip AlignControl HelpText ConfigurationKey SecurityKey DragDrop FrameType FramePosition BackStyle FrameOptionButton OptionValue DataGroup AutoDataGroup MultiSelect VisibleCols VisibleRows ShowColLabels ShowRowLabels HighlightActive ActiveBackColor ActiveForeColor GridLines LookupButton ReplaceOnLookup LimitText DisplayLength DisplayHeight Border Value Alignment SignDisplay RotateSign ShowZero DisplaceNegative AllowNegative ForegroundColor LabelForegroundColor ShowLabel Label LabelWidth LabelHeight LabelPosition LabelAlignment DataField Mandatory ArrayIndex SearchMode PasswordStyle ChangeCase MultiLine ExtendedDataType DataMethod ButtonDisplay NormalImage NormalResource DisabledImage DisabledResource ShowShortCut DefaultButton SaveRecord Tabs Tab TabAppearance ShowTabs TabPlacement TabLayout SelectControl TabAutoChange Extends RunOnFormHelp ArrayLength FormHelp ButtonImage StringSize Adjustment GroupPrompt SaveContents AliasFor AllowEditOnCreate FieldUpdate Type OldName AllowDuplicates Validate Field RelatedField TitleField1 TitleField2 Temporary TableContents Systemtable MaxAccessMode CreateRecIdIndex SaveDataPerCompany TableGroup PrimaryIndex ClusterIndex ModifiedDate ModifiedTime ModifiedBy ModifiedTransactionId CreatedDate CreatedTime CreatedBy CreatedTransactionId DeleteAction FormRef CacheLookup FILETYPE UTILTYPE UTILOBJECTID NODETYPE NAME EnumType Style RunOn AllowAdd Selection HideFirstEntry ComboType AppendNew SizeWidth SizeHeight MenuItemType MenuItemName DateValue DateFormat DateSeparator DateYear DateMonth DateDay RealValue ThousandSeparator DecimalSeparator NoOfDecimals AutoInsSeparator FormatMST Class Object Parameters EnumTypeParameter EnumParameter Web WebAccess WebSecureTransaction WebPage CountryConfigurationkey WebConfigurationkey WebTarget ProjectGroupType GroupMask PreventEditProperties>
name="Words3">FRM GRID INTEDIT STRINGEDIT BUTTON TAB TABPAGE CLS CLSVERSION || && UTI INT UTS STRING DBT TABLE PRN PROJECT END \ JOB ENUM COMBOBOX CHECKBOX STATICTEXT BUTTONGROUP MENUITEMBUTTON MENUBUTTON WINDOW DATEEDIT REALEDIT SEPARATOR FTM MNU UTE>
name="Words4">@>
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name="DEFAULT" styleID="11" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" />
name="FOLDEROPEN" styleID="12" fgColor="FF8040" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" />
name="FOLDERCLOSE" styleID="13" fgColor="FF8040" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" />
name="KEYWORD1" styleID="5" fgColor="0000FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" />
name="KEYWORD2" styleID="6" fgColor="007F00" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="2" />
name="KEYWORD3" styleID="7" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" />
name="KEYWORD4" styleID="8" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" />
name="COMMENT" styleID="1" fgColor="007F00" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" />
name="COMMENT LINE" styleID="2" fgColor="007F00" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" />
name="NUMBER" styleID="4" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="10" />
name="OPERATOR" styleID="10" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" />
name="DELIMINER1" styleID="14" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" />
name="DELIMINER2" styleID="15" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" />
name="DELIMINER3" styleID="16" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" />
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This is how it looks in Notepad++:

Syntax coloring X++ in Notepad++

Links:
Notepad++ homepage
Notepad++ on Axaptapedia

Dynamics AX and Google

Klaas Deforche — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:00:02 +0000

This is an article I wanted to write for some time now, and it’s about two things: Dynamics AX, and Google.
The goal here is to try to know what lives in the Dynamics AX world.

A nice feature Google search has is autocomplete. It comes in handy when you have to write hard to write words, or when you just want to search faster.

It’s also a nice way to discover what people are querying for about a certain subject, for example Dynamics AX. Here’s a list of item Google suggests when you type “Dynamics AX ” in the search box.

dynamics ax 2009
dynamics ax jobs
dynamics ax training
dynamics ax certification
dynamics ax modules
dynamics ax blog
dynamics ax workflow
dynamics ax 4.0
dynamics ax aif
dynamics ax demo

I don’t want to make an opinion piece out of this, so I’ll just break this up in groups without further comment.

General: 2009, 4.0, modules & demo
Jobs and Certification: training, certification & jobs
Functionality: workflow & AIF
Community: Blog

While you don’t know the context of these queries, it’s nice to know what people are interested in.
Try it for a few subjects, and you might find out some interesting things.

Art Of Creation - Dynamics AX Blog » Google

X++ and Notepad++

Dynamics AX and Google