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" />
>
>

This is how it looks in Notepad++:

Syntax coloring X++ in Notepad++

Links:
Notepad++ homepage
Notepad++ on Axaptapedia

Launching Dynamics AX using Launchy

Klaas Deforche — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:18:15 +0000

There are a few tools I use daily that I really couldn’t live without. One of them is Launchy, by Josh Karlin (launchy.net).

From the website:

Launchy is a free windows and linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

And it really does just that. You won’t be using the Start menu anymore once you’ve installed this tool.

You can download it here.

Once you’ve installed it, you will see… nothing, untill you hold Alt and tap Space.
Then you see something like this:

Once you start typing, say “Dynami…”, Launchy searches for programs that match the string you are typing. Tap Enter to launch the program.

You can use Launchy to launch specific AX configurations by creating a folder that contains axc files.

Go to the AX Client Configuration Tool, create your configurations and export them using Manage – Safe configuration file to store them in a folder.

You can setup Launchy to monitor this folder by holding Alt, tapping Space, right clicking on the Launchy window and clicking Options. On the tab Catalog, you should see something like the screenshot below. As you can see, I have already added the folder and the extension axc to the list.

Launchy options screen

Now you only need to click the Rescan Catalog button, and you’re set to go.

The end result should be something like this:

You should be able to launch right into any AX application with minimal effort now.
And of course, you can use Launchy to launch any other program as well.

Links:
Launchy website: launchy.net
Inspiration for this post: SmartStart 3000 Central

New AX blog: ax@luegisdorf

Klaas Deforche — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:37:30 +0000

There is a new AX blog in the blogosphere by Patrick Kränzlin, nicknamed Luegisdorf. Patrick is very active on the Dynamics AX newsgroups, and is also the author of SmartStart 3000 Central, a tool for managing and launching Dynamics AX configurations and applications.

Be sure to check out his website, and his first post about reflection:
How to ignore Private, Protected and Abstract modifiers.

Art Of Creation - Dynamics AX Blog » Tools

X++ and Notepad++

Launching Dynamics AX using Launchy

New AX blog: ax@luegisdorf