Visual Studio Tips for Dynamics 365 Finance Operations

Some configurations that you should make for Visual studio in newly deplopyed FinOps environments.

1. Show line number

• Open Visual studio as Administrator right.
• Click on the Dynamics 365 drop down menu on the toolbar and select Options.
• Text editor -> X++

2. Best practice rules

• Click on the Dynamics 365 drop down menu on the toolbar and select Options.
• In Dynamics 365, select Best Practices and select each of the following:
  • Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Framework.BestPracticeFramework.UIRules
  • Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Framework.CodeStyleRules
  • Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Framework.DataAccessRules
  • Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Framework.DataEntityRules
  • Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Framework.DataMethodRules
  • Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Framework.DepreciatedElementsRules
  • Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Framework.MaintainabilityRules
  • Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Framework.StaticCodeValidationRules

3. Build

If you want to lower building time

• Click on the Dynamics 365 drop down menu on the toolbar and select Options.
• In Dynamics 365, select Build and select Build Modules in Parallel

More information on this feature

4. Projects

• Click on the Dynamics 365 drop down menu on the toolbar and select Options.
• In Dynamics 365, select Build and select
  • Organize projects by element type
  • Synchronize database on build for newly created project
  • Order labels in label file by their ID

5. Customize toolbars

• Right click on Toolbars, choose Customize

• Create a new toolbar named D365

• Switch to Commands tab, Choose D365 in Toolbar

• Choose Add Command -> Extensions -> Add commands that you want

Here are my favorites

Now you can access them directly from toolbars, it will save you some clicks.