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Happy with myself
I’m kinda happy with myself today. I’ve been working on some new tools to manage email communication in Axapta, our ERP environment at work. It’s not mind boggling stuff, but I had to do a lot more low-level coding than I would usually like to do, and it all seems to work great!
Mainly, I had to write wrapper classes in Axapta’s X++ language (proprietary Java-SQL hybrid) for the Windows Internet API. Axapta had some example code built-in, but just to handle a simple http request, I needed to build authenticated “post” type http functionality — because I decided to use an ASP page on another server to do the actual mail sending, thus avoiding the client systems’ MAPI implementation, which, thanks to Microsoft’s draconian Outlook security update is now not usable w/o user-interaction ( ie, dialogs popup up telling your user that they’re about to let a beligerent virus take over the world just to send an email! ). A little bit of roll-your-own webservices.
At any rate, like I said, it wasn’t rocket science, but being a self-trained programmer, I’m pretty excited when I get anything that involves DWORD’s, HANDLE’s and BINARY datatypes to work the way I wanted.
