Tuesday, July 21, 2020

D365 Visual Studio Application Explorer filters

When I learned that the Application Explorer search window uses regular expressions, it made finding objects so much easier.
Everyone should know that you can use: type:"form" to only find form type elements but if you add regular expressions to it, you can greatly limit the results returned.
For example, you can add: List$ to find only forms that end in the word List or you can add: ^Cust to only find forms that start with Cust.
My favorite is to find objects that start with one word (often the prefix we are using for customizations) and ends with another word. For example, to find all objects that start with MCA and end with the word TEST you can do: ^MCA.*Test$
I use this every single day!
Happy coding!