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Dynamics AX - Enumerate subclasses of a specific class

A colleague of mine recently asked me if there was a quick way to find all of the classes that extend a certain base class. "But of course there is!" I said.  Here is the code block I sent him, should you, dear reader, need to accomplish a similar task. static void getSubclasses() {     List            subclassList;     ListEnumerator  listEnumerator;     SysDictClass    dictClass;     dictClass       = new SysDictClass(classNum(ExchangeRateProvider)); //Your class here     subclassList    = dictClass.extendedBy();     if (subclassList.elements())     {         listEnumerator = subclassList.getEnumerator();         setprefix(strfmt("%1 is extended by %2 subclasses", dictClass.name(), int2str(subclassList.elements())));         while (listEnumerator.moveNext()) ...