Use Visual Studio or VS Code as an editor instead of Epicor Functions Maintenance

Kinetic ERP
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Function code blocks (all server side code) has code completion there. You just have to hit CTRL+Space to initiate it. As far as debugging, if you have server access, you car run DNSpy to debug the appserver. At least that’s what we do. I like using VS for client side stuff because of the code completion, but for server side I haven’t really felt like it was lacking that much, other than maybe some help with AI tools.

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What’s really lacking is showing available methods in included libraries … and method signatures! We at least need easy access to documentation for all the Ice libraries… otherwise, it’s a shot in the dark (so I come here)

No overload for method 'x-method' takes 1 arguments
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Generally, I look at a trace, which I use anyways just to replicate what Epicor is doing, or open up the BL tester and that has the information you need.

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Not saying it wouldn’t be easier with VS, but the setup would be a pain.