Use Powershell to increment build on AX 2012 Model c

I have been working on a new version of my PowerShell script I use to export models to disk. I wanted to increment the build number each time a model was exported, so I started with my export script and added a single method and hooking things up.

The PowerShell method looks like this:

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Function Update-Version ([string]$model, [string]$server, [string]$database, [int]$incrementBuildBy) {  $manifest = Get-AXModelManifest -Server $server -Database $database -Model $model  $manifestVersion = $manifest.Version  $manifestVersionSplit = $manifestVersion.Split('.')  $manifestVersionSplit[3] = $incrementBuildBy + $manifestVersionSplit[3]  $ofs = "."  $versionStr = [string] $manifestVersionSplit  $manifestVersion = "Version=" + $versionStr  Edit-AXModelManifest -Server $server -Database $database -Model $model -ManifestProperty $manifestVersion  return $manifest }

Given this method I changed my export to look more like this:

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$backupFilePath = New-BackupFolder($axBackupFolder) $models = Get-AXModel -Server $server -Database $database   foreach ($model in $models) {  $backupFileName = ""  $elementCount  = ""  $nameToBackup  = $model.Name.ToString()  $layer    = $model.Layer.ToString()  $elementCount  = $model.ElementCount.ToString()  $versionStr  = $model.Version.ToString()  $backupFileName = $backupFilePath + "\" + $nameToBackup + ".axmodel"        if ($layer.ToUpper().Contains($layerFilter.ToUpper()) -and $nameToBackup.ToUpper().Contains($modelFilter.ToUpper()))  {   Update-Version $nameToBackup $server $database $incrementBuildBy   $backupFileName = $backupFilePath + "\" + $nameToBackup + "_" + $versionStr + ".axmodel"   "Exporting " + $elementCount + " elements from " + $nameToBackup + "..."   File-Backup $nameToBackup $backupFileName $server $database  }  else  {   "Skipping " + $backupFileName + " in layer " + $layer  } } "Completed!"

The two other utility methods are simply like this:

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Function New-BackUpFolder([string]$destinationFolder) {  $dte = get-date  $dte = $dte.tostring() -replace "[:\s/]", "."  $backUpPath = "$destinationFolder" + $dte  $null = New-Item -path $backUpPath -itemType directory  return $backUpPath }   Function File-Backup([string]$model, [string]$fileName, [string]$server, [string]$database) {  Export-AXModel -Model $model -File $fileName -Server $server -Database $database }

So in order to wrap things up, all you need is to declare at the top a few variables:

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$server = "mydbserver" $database = "MicrosoftDynamicsAx" $axBackupFolder = "c:\axModelBackup\" $modelFilter = "AwesomeApp" $layerFilter = "ISV" $incrementBuildBy = 1