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Fun fact, making extensions for this requires you to learn a new language called X++ that is based on .net framework 4.7. Development is done only on azure-hosted VMs that contain the application code and sql server and web host and visual studio with the special X++ build tools, all on one host that runs like shit at your expense.
I have been developing plugins for dynamics 365 crm for the last few years and have never heard of x++. Plugins for the crm are developed in c#/.NET 4.6.2.
The only x++ reference I could find in the Microsoft documentation with a quick search was referencing the finance and operations apps. So there seems to be some variance in the products.
Yeah, I admitted in another comment that it may only be for Dynamics F&O.
This sounds like something a programmer would come up with as a joke, but because it's Microsoft, I believe you.
I just went through that for a while and saw nothing that doesn't look exactly like C#. If it's based around .NET and looks exactly like C#, why the fuck not just use C#?
As somebody who first started coding BASIC on an Apple IIe in 1981, I am just so tired of new languages. They all do basically the same shit and there's just no real point to any of them.
Imagine JS and C# had a baby, and it was mentally challenged.
We had that in 1999 - JScript
I thought jscript was just javascript, but called that because of ✨Trademark Issues✨
C# was originally J++ which was originally Java++ until Sun sued MS.
Of course they sued them.
I supported standard JDK stuff but had lots of Visual Basic and Windows extras.
I searched it up so you don't have to (it's surprisingly hard to find example code for, the first one I found was literally a screenshot on a Microsoft blogpost.)
You really couldn't just use C# for this Microsoft? REALLY????
no. how else would a middle manager pad his CV with "lead the development of an important new programming language used by millions of customers"?
How funny. I worked with Dynamics CRM years ago and we did use C#. What the actual fuck are they doing now...
I think I just suffered a mild stroke reading this.
Wait, this isn't satire?
Sadly not.
Yeppers. When I worked on a D365 transition we were upgrading from a 1980s era DOS based thing (D3 aka Pick). We literally had like one of the last Pick developers left on earth. He ended up training his two kids on the system so they could take over for him. They all ended up having to learn X++ instead. I wonder which was worse to deal with.
X++? What happened to AL?
AL is for another ERP system D365 business central. Completely different platform from F&O
Couldn't tell you, I don't know what AL is. Dynamics is actually a bunch of different enterprise apps loosely lashed together with twine, so X++ might only be for Finance & Operations.
Ah ok. Microsoft and their naming things… But interesting to know :)
We used it for ERP, including sales, CSR, and inventory. But we still had a separate WMS, and we had to build glue to sync the WMS inventory data with the D365 data, bidirectionally.
Fuck everything about this.
That doesn't sound like any fun at all!
No. No. No. No. No MS. No!