tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29744821479055847462024-03-12T10:21:08.388+05:30Microsoft Dynamics AXThis site contains some Microsoft Dynamics AX X++ Codes for use in your day to day use. However please use them with caution in production environment. I will not be responsible for any Goof ups. These Codes were created during my free time and may have bugs. Use them at your own discretion.
Arijit Basu | IndiaArijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.comBlogger237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-59126799258715963082010-08-06T10:45:00.000+05:302010-08-06T10:45:23.280+05:30Managing Process Manufacturing using Dynamics AX<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Scott Hamilton</span></strong> has released his 6th book on AX - <strong><span style="color: red;">'Managing Process Manufacturing using Dynamics AX'</span></strong>. Like his previous titles, this one also gives a great functional insight into the ProcessManufacturing concepts and Dynamics AX.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Managing Process Manufacturing explains how Microsoft Dynamics AX supports the unique business practices of process manufacturing, including hybrid scenarios involving discrete and process manufacturing. The targeted reader includes those individuals implementing or considering Dynamics AX as their ERP system, as well as those providing consulting assistance. The book content provides a complete walk through of functionality related to operations and supply chain management in process manufacturing. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Firms involved with a system selection process may be considering Dynamics AX as a candidate package, and this book can help reduce selection risks, evaluate system fit and needed customizations, and provide a vision for running the business using AX. The book can help businesses involved in implementing and using Dynamics AX by accelerating the learning process, supporting gap/fit analyses, and reducing implementation time and costs. It suggests changes that can improve system usage and revitalize a wayward implementation. For firms providing consulting services related to Dynamics AX, this book can accelerate the employee learning process, especially for those not yet familiar with the new functionality related to process manufacturing.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Click on the link below to download (Requires Authentication):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is nothing to do specifically with Dynamics AX :-) but this is something that caught my attention and I decided to try it out and share it and this can definitely be used in an AX environment to conduct a health & BP check on the AX SQL Database. The SQL Server team has released the <strong><span style="color: red;">SQL </span></strong></span><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices/archive/2010/06/19/sql-server-2008-r2-best-practices-analyzer-is-now-available.aspx"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> tool. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">BPA is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall conformance of their SQL Server instances and topology with established best practices. BPA examines your SQL Server instance for system events, reviews login permissions, scans your SQL Metadata for advisable settings, and recommends solutions to items that do not conform with established Microsoft best practices. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">There is an <strong>AX Security Hardening</strong> guide available from Microsoft but this is something extra which can definitely be used. I tried it on my AX Environment and it provided some nice results.</span><br />
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</div>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-9383711702554914582010-05-05T20:47:00.004+05:302010-05-05T20:53:04.941+05:30TFS 2010 and Dynamics AX 2009 VCS<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Recently the technology landscape is going rapid changes. New products/ releases like <strong><span style="color: blue;">VS2010, SQL 2008 R2, Office 2010 Suite </span></strong>etc have changed the technology scenario a lot. All these have opened up tremendous opportunities for the developer as well as the customer. Its really an amazing time to be in technology :-). I was present for the India VS 2010 Launch and immediately dived in :-). One of my task was to evaluate TFS for our AX projects. As we had been using TFS 2008, it was an interesting R&D to see if this worked with TFS 2010. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Installation of TFS 2010 went of perfectly and I was able to configure a single server TFS 2010 environment. TFS 2010 comes with tons of great features and you can read it here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><strong><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/">TFS blog of bHarry</a></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Well after creating the project in TFS 2010 I set out to configure it for AX 2009 but was greeted with an error as shown below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">On closer examination i saw that the assembly version was creating the issue. Version 9.0.0.0 was for TFS 2008 and AX was looking for that. So the next step was to see if TFS 2008 Team Explorer could be used to access TFS 2010. One interesting link I found helped me overcome that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><strong><a href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/06/10/connecting-visual-studio-2008-team-explorer-to-team-foundation-server-2010/">TFS 2008 Team Explorer to access TFS 2010</a></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4. Install the Forward Compatibility patch (<strong><em><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=CF13EA45-D17B-4EDC-8E6C-6C5B208EC54D&displaylang=en">Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010</a></em></strong>) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Well it appears to work fine. AX 2009 SP1 does not support out of the box integration with TFS 2010 but this workaround helps you to work with TFS 2010 VCS. Microsoft may/may not release a fix/patch for AX 2009 but AX '6' should definitely support TFS 2010 out of the box. I have done some basic tests and they appear to work fine. However more detailed testes need to be carried.</span><br />
<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/dynamicsaxse/default.aspx"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><strong>The Dynamics SE team</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> should put some update on this.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Happy DAX-ing :)</strong></span>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-87066111731422468772010-04-15T13:11:00.005+05:302010-04-15T16:19:28.701+05:30Visual Studio 2010 Launch & Dynamics AX Perspective<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Well you all know <strong><span style="color: red;">Visual Studio 2010</span></strong> RTM'ed on 12th April. I had attended the Launch event at TechEd 2010 Bangalore and the launch was done by <strong><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/"><span style="color: blue;">Somasegar</span></a></strong> himself. It was a great event to attend :-). VS 2010 opens up new vistas for developers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Well whats VS 2010 got to do with AX? <strong><a href="http://dynamics-ax.blogspot.com/2010/04/visual-studio-2010-and-net-40-passed.html">Brandon</a></strong> posted a compatibility report on AX & VS 2010 . I thought I would wait for RTM :-). The Dynamics AX Sustained Engineering Team has completed the compatibility tests for the new releases for .NET 4.0, VS 2010 & Office 2010. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">One good thing I got to see @ TechEd 2010 India was the Windows 7 phone :-). Awesome. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Happy DAX-ing :-)</strong></span>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-42927598690490660292010-04-11T09:01:00.000+05:302010-04-11T09:01:56.302+05:30DynamicsWorld - 2010 Top 100 - Voting<strong><a href="http://dynamicsworld.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Dynamicsworld </span></a></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">started a <strong><span style="color: blue;">Microsoft Dynamics Top 100 Most Influential People List</span></strong> . The criteria include the number of years experience, MVP status, those that run blogs, forums and Dynamics based sites, and those with senior positions within organisations, as well as those that have created products and modules for Dynamics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-6695495908248779442010-04-09T15:01:00.007+05:302010-04-09T15:06:57.819+05:30AX Environment Information on UI - Simple & sweet tweak.<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I've ofter observed that during implementations where there are multiple environments it becomes difficult to identify which environment a form belongs to especially when there are multiple forms open form different environments (Live, Test, Prod, Training etc). I made a very simple tweak which highlights which environment a form belongs to. Very similar to the AX 2008 Workflow band. This was successfully tested in AX 3.0, AX 4.0 and AX 2009. Its really very simple and effective. See screenshot below.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Then I built a small and simple form to show the flagged BR. The user would have to add the ticker symbol (careful as these are case sensitive) and then can view stock information for the BR . I've used Yahoo Financials for the charts and can be used to see for multiple duration as shown.</span><br />
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Another site added to the growing DAX community :-)</span></span></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.elrincondynamics.es/"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 229px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448357539622135874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSr16WSiRA273I8b855vTeVceWsxQxuAsKjExrLH_PF67YjOe9wQ0tUklJk34rNgqJtITy6x2qRGGSHW3LGCHsEurN9pUhJiYsEU6v3_Pp9dU3gI1HWTxHPXcXGLfMQKL9TGqSllh15z4/s320/AX.JPG" /></a><br /></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">Happy DAX-ing</span></strong></span></span></p>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-56772352411745400882010-03-12T10:52:00.005+05:302010-03-13T08:19:49.829+05:30ERP Implementation Strategies – A Guide to ERP Implementation Methodology<div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000000;">When implementing an ERP, one important decision which needs to be made is on the implementation rollout strategy. Will it be Big Bang, Phased, Agile etc. A lot depends on this strategy.<br /><strong>Big bang</strong> - Implementation happens in a single instance. All users move to the new system on a given date.<br /><strong>Phased rollout</strong> - Changeover occurs in phases over an extended period of time. Users move onto new system in a series of steps.<br /><strong>Parallel adoption</strong> - Both the legacy and new ERP system run at the same time. Users learn the new system while working on the old. </span></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.softwareadvice.com/manufacturing/"><strong><span style="color:#993300;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;">www.softwareadvice.com</span></span></span></strong></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000000;"> is currently running a survey regarding these strategies. Please click on the link below to take the survey.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"><strong><a href="http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/manufacturing/erp-implementation-strategies-1031101/">ERP Implementation Strategies survey.</a></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div> </div><a href="http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/manufacturing/erp-implementation-strategies-1031101/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447615042439377010" style="WIDTH: 218px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 86px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyAdU11vxxdAbdvaXtPzbpFQnoc0uZZs63M_dQRL_vhyphenhyphen5WqJc502XZcSoMhsOzuAPg225Dh9_6DXbeE_mJQJQ_2H8g052glhBpLUAr6ept2qUoIY03ut-h7TQ0sgPvohDoiSoS2UavIQY/s400/SA.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>Happy DAX-ing</strong></span></div>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-18028406157305727552010-03-09T11:55:00.016+05:302010-03-10T16:24:48.989+05:30Dynamics AX 2009 Bulk Data insert using SSIS<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;">Recently I was working on a POC which required me to insert 1,00,000 records into AX 2009 from an external LOB application and post these lines in AX. Well that got me thinking since it was a huge amount of import. .NET BC would be very slow, excel import would not be feasible. Direct SQL inserts seemed to be the feasible solution but I had to deal with RecId, RecVersionId & Company. Well after much R&D I hit upon using SSIS and some custom scripts to get the data inside AX. My test environment was:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><u><strong>Environment:</strong></u> WIN 2008 Enterprise 32 Bit, 4 GB RAM, MSSQL 2008 Developer SP1, AX 2009 SP1.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><u><strong>Test Dataset:</strong></u> 1,00,000 records into a table in a separate database in SQL 2008. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><u><strong>Objective:</strong></u> Insert these records in AX 2009.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><u><strong>Results:</strong></u> Inserted 1,00,000 records inside AX 2009 in 13.6 seconds (along with RecId, RecVersionId & DataAreaId). Used SSIS to bulk insert the records.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;">So how I went forward??</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#0000ff;">1. Created a sample database & sample table and populated with demo data.</span></strong></p><p><u><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"><strong>The script for sample table create is as follows.</strong></span></u></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">USE [Database]</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">GO<br />SET ANSI_NULLS ON</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">GO<br />SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">GO<br />CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tbl_PortalTrans]( [TransactionId] [nvarchar](20) NOT NULL, [TransactionReference] [nvarchar](30) NULL, [TransactionAmount] [numeric](28, 13) NULL) ON [PRIMARY]<br />GO</span></em></p><p><u><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"><strong>The script for sample data in the above table is as follows.</strong></span></u></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">declare @counter int </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">set @counter = 0 </span></em></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="color:#008000;"><em>while @counter <></em> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;"></span></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">begin </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">set @counter = @counter + 1 </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">insert into tbl_PortalTrans values ('TRID-'+cast(@counter as char),'Transaction Ref : ' + cast(@counter as char), </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">1000) </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#008000;">end</span></em></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg8XFHgxwQL9RoCHZWxQcHuikCgg27Tr9Uy-h2OSVULwyqtEFv_8fFEO0LWOu0fIDtPcU9066NC33SLHbgfPbj_ukGMBji74nsjyvI7uuz5nlWG_OwmiAyHZF_gpYrCPSTAnPXHTOr8WU/s1600-h/SSIS005%5B7%5D.png"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"><img title="SSIS005" style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="466" alt="SSIS005" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHcoEIPyysylJZ5iWYehzQ5FpxxIrcpj9zqhWNNKHnMHE7O0Es81P_mLZe_5MU49fTKJoq3lOmJ75-KuIoTW6REseYOZKzbTzrz6bBIjeE_Im1J75PjN70Y-TwF-x_fkvbE4zZ6K51Vmc/?imgmax=800" width="644" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"> </span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#0000ff;">2. Created a sample target table & form in AX 2009.</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;">This would be the ultimate target of these 1,00,000 records from the source table. The source xpo is attached in the download url.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy8Oo0ZCy0iVyjhJX3QUKrmctWKCPtEhtsiK7zPmr3TEcEdBs39vOc3rqEJZtlG3SYhrTmXttB2UyN83cT6yZLhDfBpCvjBTyRzRXRVw51qzv9qkD0DLQ4pwvHUUA-7oPxJlp617WB-Q0/s1600-h/SSIS003%5B9%5D.png"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"><img title="SSIS003" style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="388" alt="SSIS003" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilo_0F-tt0MPgwjaxpuH0VDFs6vbSzFpkD3Bdr3VrdJp765SqTKWNrf02xW0AskntMRa1WvyL6PfAXe6t7jTz_g0z7cJ-h82q_gOkGBSrR0W-4KDhZDmk_WhhEO2cNYlqN0F9JNzIJoJw/?imgmax=800" width="644" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#0000ff;">3. Created a SSIS package to extract, transform & load data in AX 2009.</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;">This was the meat of the application. I creates a SSIS package which reads the source tables, uses a few transformations to add extra columns to the data, use the custom script to generate the recid’s on the fly and finally push it inside AX 2009. I have also uploaded the VS 2008 SSIS package.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;">SSIS Control Flow objects.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6bZPrlaD-a8rqh7qoUmnnv5l1g3cdvqtb0Q71D7WEOqIbl98jmIs593yPxsRn7aFFO9E2fjGNFOfI_PA4k1qKHjiygR_5zKKFuA75UhNJ_kzgTN6NkRIbOuUqIn5PrJg1mmAffzppjSo/s1600-h/SSIS001%5B9%5D.jpg"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"><img title="SSIS001" style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="389" alt="SSIS001" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqtYb2kj1C6qgPXKj4An7dUbBVrdbGdvKUjLLNS741nwuPKtmfxLrU4LkgeaijUhWMpHsw4MTJx0LhPfiMqr5hhxhM1CPdvmdNAHoujKAt9PiNkIatAkgfIqIM_jW21ZYflYZdgdIpDHE/?imgmax=800" width="644" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;">SSIS Data Flow objects.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMm6nfwKmtOBAk7W-POIlWfRiXORDuZOvQXciApGZScEi2gx0D332h7XDRQauiUia2DZnQ840hCxhexWKcjHGC7U26M3GBXJA4FCu6iRs2pfcWFtBt2KoY7zq3RXkSzvkOxpTnRL7jBz4/s1600-h/SSIS002%5B3%5D.jpg"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"><img title="SSIS002" style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="389" alt="SSIS002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiypYfFMdlUJnjtNNIylChSm38xVZvmnwJFcjubrOkGB4jnjRVoy60hyeO0HVakNJlveIgPtB3X9lO99frfz6E71gFjDO7XjyV4EU7d2a1hVG3-JX89UulOH-98X4oFqzJxytbBRBREexk/?imgmax=800" width="644" border="0" /></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;">I’m also attaching a video on how this works :-)</span><br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cYYij45N90c&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cYYij45N90c&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;">The source files are present below at Sky drive. In case you want to use the package, you need to have a good understanding about SSIS 2008 in order to modify the package. To use it, please modify the package. The upload also contains the AX 2009 XPO files and scripts for creating the Source Table & demo data. The files also contain a detailed video. </span></p><p><iframe title="Preview" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; WIDTH: 98px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; HEIGHT: 115px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-0594e6dbf6c3ce94.skydrive.live.com/embedicon.aspx/AX2009SSISBulkLoad" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#ff0000;">Happy DAX-ing :)</span></strong></p>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-1765715505066122232010-03-07T13:54:00.004+05:302010-03-07T14:16:52.058+05:30Book Review : Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">This is one book I wish was published a few years back when I was learning Dynamics AX. During that time there was a real crisis for AX related literature that I had to learn everything the hard way and it would have been really good had I got this book then :). This book is the first one of its class in the Dynamics AX Technology Books family and is a must read resources for new or experienced developers.</span><br /><strong><a href="http://www.dynamicslab.com/thebook"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Mindaugas</span></a></strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"> has done a really good job of compiling technical 'how to's' in this book. It has 6 chapters and each chapter focusses on how to do simple things in X++. What I like most it apart from just X++ codes, it also explains how it works and some sections on 'There's more'. The book covers the following chapters:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>Chapter 1: Processing Data</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>Chapter 2: Working with Forms</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>Chapter 3: Working with Data in Forms</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>Chapter 4: Building Lookups</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>Chapter 5: Processing Business Tasks</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>Chapter 6: Integration with Microsoft Office</strong></span><br />My favourite is <strong>Chapter # 5</strong> which explains and demonstrates the Ledger, Purch & Sales API's which helps a developer to integrate with base AX. This is one area where I have seen developers struggle and this chapter does a good job of demonstrating the intricacies.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">You can also view a </span><a href="http://www.packtpub.com/files/9423-microsoft-dynamics-sample-chapter-2-working-with-forms.pdf"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Free Chapter</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"> here.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Code Download for the book is available </span><a href="http://www.packtpub.com/support/book/microsoft-dynamics-ax-2009-development-cookbook"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">here</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Click on the image below to go to Packt Site.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-dynamics-ax-2009-development-cookbook/book"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445805900129328274" style="WIDTH: 249px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirqBuHGT1lezS83IiFDyCWkZT1ArFq4K2UHwVYYkCQUUmoiENnbP1cfKgHdABqFCh5QkQk7rHDYqYoc88IdRMd7-XDYO7ZERePk86pVKidqVVc-YkTqgNOvYv0GyjNtYU3DSjX_3ANvxg/s320/CookBook.png" border="0" /></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">This is a really super(); book and I recommend it for new developers and also for advanced developers as a ready reference guide. I hope in the next release of this book (AX 6) additional topics like .NET integration, Reald world X Platform integration , AIF samples are also covered. <strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Great work </span></strong><a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mpocius"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Mindaugas</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">.</span></strong></span>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-61551702875188147722010-02-10T13:29:00.002+05:302010-02-10T13:39:40.291+05:30BI Persona Presentation for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">A new presentation has been released which can be used when meeting with customers and prospects who need to explore the Business Intelligence capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000099;">"With this presentation you will be able to present the BI concept and examples of how Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 supports the BI needs of 10 specific roles – from the CEO, accounts payable coordinator to the order processor, Environmental Manager etc. You will be able to present how the different roles with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 have access to the information they need when they need it, and in a format that makes sense to them."</span></div><br /><div></div><a href="https://mbs.microsoft.com/Cms/Templates/document/General.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID={1B9A965E-D37F-43D2-A6BA-94E5805F8E99}&NRORIGINALURL=/partnersource/marketing/marketingcollateral/presentationdecks/MSDYAX2009_BIpersonasppt&NRCACHEHINT=Guest&wa=wsignin1.0"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436523102342546162" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 289px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60ZzS8vErv2lrn0q9_K3gJIzlKmihFQdxJ9MM2Awj7Rql6I4lSK2GYsuFv9ADtHuyiKet1wOr6jFdki-oO28Uri2wkOtIoj5lCRS1PRDfOeYuQ51kazZaVrYHIVeuGP_Yc3HzXCV4ENI/s400/BIAX.png" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>Click on the <a href="https://mbs.microsoft.com/Cms/Templates/document/General.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID={1B9A965E-D37F-43D2-A6BA-94E5805F8E99}&NRORIGINALURL=/partnersource/marketing/marketingcollateral/presentationdecks/MSDYAX2009_BIpersonasppt&NRCACHEHINT=Guest&wa=wsignin1.0">image to download </a>(Requires Partnersource Logon)</strong></span></div>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-30501929805097673632010-01-31T11:53:00.026+05:302010-01-31T14:20:06.184+05:30Review of: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Programming: Getting Started<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">I had been super() busy since the last few weeks so i was unable to do some serious blogging. I however got time last week and read through the new AX book '<span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Programming: Getting Started</strong></span>' by </span><a href="http://msdynamicsax.wordpress.com/om/"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#cc0000;">'Erlend Dalen'</span></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">and post my feedback.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:180%;">"</span><span style="color:#000099;">This is a very good book for beginners who want to explore the technical side of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 as well as for Functional consultants who want to know what goes behind the hood. The language is simple and easy to follow and there is a case study which can be referred and the solution to the case study 'Carz Inc.' is unravelled as you move through the chapters. One good thing I like about this book is the plenty of sample code and step by step guidance which will help novice AX developers to understand the concepts and apply in real world scenarios. </span></span></strong></em></span></div><br /><div> </div><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000099;">Chapter # 8 (Integrate with Standard AX) is also very nice and provides some information regarding the important API's which are required for Xmodule integration. There is plenty of sample code and entity diagrams for integration guidance. Considering the real world implementation scenario, this is an important chapter and has been well written.</span></strong></em></span></div><br /><p><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em><strong><span style="font-size:78%;color:#000099;">Chapter # 9 (Creating a New Module) is also good for developers who want to create a new module in AX , just like the other AX standard modules and it walks the developer through number sequences, parameters, security aspects. </span></strong></em></span></p><span style="font-family:verdana;"><em><strong><span style="font-size:78%;color:#000099;"></span></strong><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000099;"><strong>Chapter # 11 (Web Services) however deals with the old version of creating a web service (.asmx). In AX 2009 this framework has significantly changed to use WCF. You may want to refer to the latest AX 2009 SDK for AX 2009 AIF & WCF concepts.<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#000000;"> "</span></strong></span><br /></div></em></span><br /><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 246px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavfdH5Pg48A7tDDopsCcBRMsrfz_sCg9i828WbyI0zcXc3EtvStzJHWWSa_79pAsOFYQ4NzxZ1IpWX4zGEpLtBQHbMNXQb9_aGEC2RuvUDxmydHYtbYepno811u58TYXDHrrjK0AMhd8/s320/AX+Book.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432801300526247410" /><br /><div><br /></div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Overall this is a very nice book</strong></span> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>for new developers. Its definitely worth reading this book. Kudos Erlend.</strong></span></span>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-50292974459758381762010-01-15T23:33:00.032+05:302010-01-16T14:53:03.488+05:30AX on Cloud 9<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Lately there has been a lot of activity related to cloud computing with introduction of Windows AZURE. It truly is an interesting technology providing businesses wider opportunities. Well I decided to explore AZURE a bit and did a small POC on AX integration with AZURE. Well I hit on many roadblocks but was able to overcome them. In my POC I have created a simple WCF service on AZURE Platform and I'm calling that service from AX. The steps are as follows:</span><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></span></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">1. Setup and configure the AZURE Development prerequisites.</span></strong> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#3366ff;">AZURE Account can be obtained at </span><a href="http://windows.azure.com/"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000000;">http://windows.azure.com</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#3366ff;">AZURE Getting Started </span><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/getstarted/"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000000;">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/getstarted/</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">It is important you download the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=413e88f8-5966-4a83-b309-53b7b77edf78&displaylang=en"><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">AZURE Platform Training Kit</span></strong> </a>from MSDN. Really helpful.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></span></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">2. Create the AZURE WCF Service using Visual Studio 2008 or 2010.</span></strong> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">I created a very simple service which accepts employee code and returns the credit rating. </span></div><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqyJ_TccXc2bxpWHk-XyVo5ivlD8KEDVZrBHlYoSd8yHxdSa6tam2JlnEHU8rlPmkqmHH6XkSQmD-U8lIBBaI1jMsXDfmqWSwZgcx_ishjOyo_Pys8qClRUaDAnBooKXmih15DKDMM04Q/s1600-h/Code.png"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427253899379484146" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 210px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqyJ_TccXc2bxpWHk-XyVo5ivlD8KEDVZrBHlYoSd8yHxdSa6tam2JlnEHU8rlPmkqmHH6XkSQmD-U8lIBBaI1jMsXDfmqWSwZgcx_ishjOyo_Pys8qClRUaDAnBooKXmih15DKDMM04Q/s320/Code.png" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">When I went to deploy the service, I got an error and on further investigating I found that SQL Express is required . I was on SQL 2008. Well there is a workaround for this in case you are on SQL 2008. Open AZURE SDK Command Prompt and key in the following as shown and press enter. This will allow you to use SQL Server 2008 for your AZURE Developments.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#006600;">DSInit /sqlInstance:. /forceCreate</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwD0iqR0V9CB4wpVidjWpoRGMOT37T1CiURWPegIwpFUOzrMIBVyVllM7Vd-R-hvG39PMsDKGYrTOEGZ6W4Xwp_ooe3OSPLO1jcVrJSNHPfaaNMGDvKXahDoWWbthMOOra2excoXWvQ38/s1600-h/2010-01-16_1203.png"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427254941876960386" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 70px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwD0iqR0V9CB4wpVidjWpoRGMOT37T1CiURWPegIwpFUOzrMIBVyVllM7Vd-R-hvG39PMsDKGYrTOEGZ6W4Xwp_ooe3OSPLO1jcVrJSNHPfaaNMGDvKXahDoWWbthMOOra2excoXWvQ38/s400/2010-01-16_1203.png" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></span></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">3. Deploy the Service on the Cloud.</span></strong> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Use the demos and the instruction in AZURE Platform Training Kit to deploy the service in the cloud in the Production instance. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"></span> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTRNdECbmORPj9FRwD2_jK5KMl7bKi3NPhUSZx5G4nTcZsWoCmI8ZzR2Oet_YPt9YmuWBdZzV5vjRud_eeO4k17mbFlggA-R_PdfSrtH9G0qp6Top09HtKJL06e-trPDRGAYzEpMBguBs/s1600-h/Production.png"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427255962586574066" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 306px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTRNdECbmORPj9FRwD2_jK5KMl7bKi3NPhUSZx5G4nTcZsWoCmI8ZzR2Oet_YPt9YmuWBdZzV5vjRud_eeO4k17mbFlggA-R_PdfSrtH9G0qp6Top09HtKJL06e-trPDRGAYzEpMBguBs/s400/Production.png" border="0" /></span></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">My service was called </span><a href="http://daxguy.cloudapp.net/Service1.svc"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">http://daxguy.cloudapp.net/Service1.svc</span></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">(<em><span style="color:#006600;">My Local Service was </span></em></span><a href="http://localhost:50026/Service1.svc"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"><em>http://localhost:50026/Service1.svc</em></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Browse the service by providing the service name on your browser. You will be able to see the service.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"></span> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqtidLU0sBKXfeFeI9f1TfLpbsy__3Qoo24Brr4SDreCHFtRk8KQ4iUIgSnAk8LpGEA2lMdY1fBy4Dql2BicO9UMLdL8LhWb7ZjcqxbvNqI4qWLlcAMJVmdpK4ipt3-pyWtn0YaoxyiI/s1600-h/Azure+WCF+Service.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427256821288653730" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 218px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqtidLU0sBKXfeFeI9f1TfLpbsy__3Qoo24Brr4SDreCHFtRk8KQ4iUIgSnAk8LpGEA2lMdY1fBy4Dql2BicO9UMLdL8LhWb7ZjcqxbvNqI4qWLlcAMJVmdpK4ipt3-pyWtn0YaoxyiI/s400/Azure+WCF+Service.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#006600;"><span style="color:#000000;">One important thing to notice here is that service name marked above in red.</span> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#006600;">svcutil.exe </span><a href="http://rd00155d3414bb:20000/Service1.svc?wsdl"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#006600;">http://rd00155d3414bb:20000/Service1.svc?wsdl</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">This is something which will give you issues when you want to generate proxy using wcftestclient or svcutil and also with Dynamics AX :-). There is a hotfix available from Microsoft <a class="NoUnderline" id="ctl00_ctl00_WideContent_ProjectTitleControl1_ProjectTitleLink" href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB971842">KB971842 </a>. I could however not use this hotfix as I got an error while trying to install. Im on WIN 2008. Nevertheless the show must go on. My service was up in the cloud and I needed to now access it from AX.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">4. Consume the service from AX 2009.</span> </strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;">As with general wsdl files, in AX when you go to add a service reference using <a href="http://daxguy.cloudapp.net/Service1.svc">http://daxguy.cloudapp.net/Service1.svc</a>, you will get an error as shown. There is a issue with AZURE wcf services and proxy generation :-(</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"></span> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh37coUoryRoX77s8RFHz9EsgaC_XbP3EbhMWzCAlBiLRWfIeLiqjed3vJCoZDE4QGLMSuVq3LMtaq98JOAZQmrBcMDQ1ZFXGnrVmBqTsBNsnAmA5RlEBkXoFkhSsKmphx1FPmvnWrwh5s/s1600-h/Error.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427260975189342706" style="WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh37coUoryRoX77s8RFHz9EsgaC_XbP3EbhMWzCAlBiLRWfIeLiqjed3vJCoZDE4QGLMSuVq3LMtaq98JOAZQmrBcMDQ1ZFXGnrVmBqTsBNsnAmA5RlEBkXoFkhSsKmphx1FPmvnWrwh5s/s400/Error.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;">Well the workaround is to use your local service <a href="http://localhost:50026/Service1.svc">http://localhost:50026/Service1.svc</a> to generate the proxy in AX 2009 and then configure the Service Reference using the MS WCF Service Configuration editor to change the service reference. See the screenshot below.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJU6oaKybvVoHvyzTOr6MBKci3rE5WYvYv0PiH0HLd4151pQVnGojvLA-20Ld4VirBKdCSMvkMYxAK6HUy0PJUOf66A14-sJR5eKO1kjQsarrxBUuqHjfGpUvmShTJ97gzaVhClGNiTbU/s1600-h/Configure.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427262083926113090" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 233px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJU6oaKybvVoHvyzTOr6MBKci3rE5WYvYv0PiH0HLd4151pQVnGojvLA-20Ld4VirBKdCSMvkMYxAK6HUy0PJUOf66A14-sJR5eKO1kjQsarrxBUuqHjfGpUvmShTJ97gzaVhClGNiTbU/s400/Configure.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This will change the config file in the Service References folder in your AX 2009 Application Instance folder.</span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000000;">Now write some code to call the service. I created a small form where I pass an employee code and get the credit rating of the employee.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Just to be on the safe side, I shut down my local IIS server just to ensure that I was really referring to the cloud.</span></div><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuYptIm-4VeGeBgG11qhrM3tfjCcinRE8c-QswU5WljWRddmVofikhXNdTRosMDn-JcLQsyZUPNdoKlwKmzB90-WVoQ5Zc7hSEJITE8gB71M4FKKTeh2JlEGG1o1_-6OOcgGlnwZEuuwY/s1600-h/AXAPP.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427263099598695922" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 148px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuYptIm-4VeGeBgG11qhrM3tfjCcinRE8c-QswU5WljWRddmVofikhXNdTRosMDn-JcLQsyZUPNdoKlwKmzB90-WVoQ5Zc7hSEJITE8gB71M4FKKTeh2JlEGG1o1_-6OOcgGlnwZEuuwY/s400/AXAPP.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">The code sample is as follows in AX 2009.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"></span> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtYrWjcBEOT2gCWOB0geC8zjuN_GxG-wlHLdpDXcEj53LluyKY870vhizCIIukh9P33tuzWpRrSqwH9ekCboMk8j2v2aNOeWbGe1xn4KbkXL8E27ibpxRiTWhvesbTIfbMHn2ToeBirW4/s1600-h/AX.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427263581183111154" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtYrWjcBEOT2gCWOB0geC8zjuN_GxG-wlHLdpDXcEj53LluyKY870vhizCIIukh9P33tuzWpRrSqwH9ekCboMk8j2v2aNOeWbGe1xn4KbkXL8E27ibpxRiTWhvesbTIfbMHn2ToeBirW4/s400/AX.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">And it was working. Really cool. I was consuming a AZURE WCF Service from Dynamics AX. There is a lot of potential in this. Maybe in next generation AIF , developers will be able to generate Cloud AIF directly from AX :-).</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">I had also created a Windows Application to test this out in similar ways and it worked nicely.</span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4X2mk4cm6uk-cWySGTOzFSw96J-VE3ooZnIi_b0Buor1wwYDpzCFi5BEH_IlwlpANrlaJqL9j9DqkFO7rl1FfuDC12QPm2h5ob6gQ3RPOZk2mesv4uUcVb0lcB3rd8lx1bYqTvqlC8F0/s1600-h/AZURE+WIN+App.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427264998068910994" style="WIDTH: 301px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 301px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4X2mk4cm6uk-cWySGTOzFSw96J-VE3ooZnIi_b0Buor1wwYDpzCFi5BEH_IlwlpANrlaJqL9j9DqkFO7rl1FfuDC12QPm2h5ob6gQ3RPOZk2mesv4uUcVb0lcB3rd8lx1bYqTvqlC8F0/s400/AZURE+WIN+App.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#ff0000;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Happy DAXing :-)</strong></span><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-21109117295592516962009-12-31T11:58:00.002+05:302009-12-31T11:59:34.767+05:30Happy New Year 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYKMevJftskQskRBwmKzg5fWg90F1bkdLV_0MlQEAbel6q8RW-sxmLmt43qYiTkY0lF8kQGCkIUZsu_32J5z9uCtSdlOsYm7DJhRzAovSaHq0rxHKh7I5ZD4A89QZwkxEIh9COyIZ2nzU/s1600-h/HNY2010.bmp"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYKMevJftskQskRBwmKzg5fWg90F1bkdLV_0MlQEAbel6q8RW-sxmLmt43qYiTkY0lF8kQGCkIUZsu_32J5z9uCtSdlOsYm7DJhRzAovSaHq0rxHKh7I5ZD4A89QZwkxEIh9COyIZ2nzU/s400/HNY2010.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421283648834245234" /></a>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-76792627680826323452009-12-29T11:40:00.010+05:302009-12-29T11:49:55.657+05:30Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Programming: Getting Started<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Another book on Microsoft Dynamics AX <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-dynamics-ax-2009-programming?utm_source=daxguy.blogspot.com&utm_medium=bookrev&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=mdb_001968"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>'Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009: Getting Started</strong>'</span> </a>has been released. Its good to see more and more books on Dynamics AX. This is the second book after <strong><span style="color:#006600;">'Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009'</span></strong>. Presently I'm reviewing this book and will publish a review soon. The book is available from <strong>Packtub Publishing</strong>. Click on the image below to visit the site (Available in .pdf and Hard Copy). </span><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"> </span><a href="http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-dynamics-ax-2009-programming/book"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><img style="WIDTH: 100px; HEIGHT: 123px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420537282091872674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJKgbgvIIT8bwadonPzY2o_uDj2A75NvVPiLY5FmfhyDvuhF0LFZhijFODtgJQB51ISM053gM4htcdRTdgDdWL4R0EeP16dSIKkGtAZkYtJW8WKO1HeBL8wzoBYLKv6JC7y3HHgi7NH0E/s400/Dynamics+AX+book.png" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">There is also a sample chapter available for download and you can view it by clicking on the link below:</span></div><div><strong><a href="http://www.packtpub.com/files/7306-microsoft-dynamics-ax-2009-programming-getting-started-sample-chapter-no-5-searching-for-data.pdf"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#cc0000;">Sample Chapter (Chapter #5 - Searching for Data)</span></a></strong></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Looking forward to review this. Well since version 3 onwards there have been few books on AX and MSDN is primarily the developer source for learning. However more books on AX will really help the developer community. Developers would want to get a copy of this book. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#3333ff;"><strong>Happy DAXING :-)</strong></span></div>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-20330796485572753992009-12-22T12:51:00.004+05:302009-12-22T12:54:43.326+05:30Sure Step 2010<span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The latest version of <b><span style="color:#ff0000;">Sure Step 2010</span></b> is now available from Partnersource. Click on the image below to download.</span> </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><a href="https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/partneressentials/serviceplans/surestep/"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 102px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417957678853214466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWiL8noxac7UWzreNJOrQGXoUSVwNVR5ihyphenhyphenumgTcGyFEMNhatNWQIDVVAo0s59T1sGOOWC4Oi8RTy2AZH8wN92wYzSmUvhkPIDadks0Vn7HcoASQ0blLnE9y-oWNvzUJ92NhTMUCiFfc/s400/SS2010.png" /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#33cc00;"><strong>Happy Sure stepping :-)</strong></span></div>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-15036993225712889422009-11-23T14:13:00.004+05:302009-11-23T14:23:00.133+05:30Statement of Direction for Microsoft Dynamics AX<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">The updated SOD for Dynamics is now available on Partner Source/Customer Source. The document comprises of four main sections:</span></span><br /><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Future direction of the product </span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">What is our current offering (Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 SP1) </span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">What is Microsoft Dynamics AX ‘6’ </span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Customer Support and Maintenance Policies</span></span></li></ul><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">The SOD will contain information about our development plans through the year 2018.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="https://mbs.microsoft.com/Cms/Templates/document/General.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID={C543391C-739D-4B90-8E9C-5C9781A8510E}&NRORIGINALURL=/partnersource/marketing/statementofdirection/statementofdirection.htm?printpage=false&stext=ax%2520sod&NRCACHEHINT=Guest&printpage=false&stext=ax%20sod&wa=wsignin1.0"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 283px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407218832632610914" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXb55Ga3zg7rUd-b95KCCrOhGg6W8xjhQ1w5wBmg72ZE3llxe_fFWu15i-Mg7GjIe3reDmEe86XNsk3lErNTx0Yf4FPlxHzdulSC_UIViuoc7O3X16z3J88jVfZD1p5LSwM8WNNXpWWEM/s400/AX.png" /></a></span></span></p><p><a href="https://mbs.microsoft.com/Cms/Templates/document/General.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID={C543391C-739D-4B90-8E9C-5C9781A8510E}&NRORIGINALURL=/partnersource/marketing/statementofdirection/statementofdirection.htm?printpage=false&stext=ax%2520sod&NRCACHEHINT=Guest&printpage=false&stext=ax%20sod&wa=wsignin1.0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Click here to download from Partner Source</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> [Login Required]</span></span></p>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-14395183851466048432009-11-19T15:21:00.004+05:302009-11-19T19:52:41.055+05:30Microsoft Product Support Index<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">During AX implementations it becomes necessary to view the support lifecycle policies of the related products like SQL, MOSS. Here is a nice link to the MS Support Index where you will find the support roadmap for all MS Product versions. I found it extremely useful. Click on the image below to view the site.</span><br /><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselectindex"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 235px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405750403004953586" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8sOEIsH-IZ51lJlwCpgoJXS0J5ipoSOOjckFI3426VpEluK82cnEF_CSoxb6Bb2AQ3q4Y_hJ1Y0aVrFxzN0O2y-UV4opRYZ6TUTq_yzsKlPqPunlMc7MOZTq-2t5xB9N_PqCMgZfmbMI/s400/2009-11-19_1520.png" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Happy DAX-ing</span></strong><br /><br /></span>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-39683067331621777652009-11-15T23:01:00.003+05:302009-11-15T23:06:30.827+05:30AX Application Launcher v2.1<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">I received some quick feedback on the UI color ;-P. I have changed the UI color to something that will hopefully be pleasant to the eyes :-). [Lemme see if I can create something like a theme...]. The new UI is as:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqU6lFOUGa0DLj_Pf-wSs6LIx0D7CrotVCqJcYLo8z-aeFfvHMgElEWhciozCOjGYm78XpTJDQ0WKRDZqFZLXSpCx-FxuJCb67QIFq_GT5FapNdk9lik5_YI3kZzWvPGMRRkG73LFnM-E/s1600-h/AX_Sync_Centre.png"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 317px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404384994171398450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqU6lFOUGa0DLj_Pf-wSs6LIx0D7CrotVCqJcYLo8z-aeFfvHMgElEWhciozCOjGYm78XpTJDQ0WKRDZqFZLXSpCx-FxuJCb67QIFq_GT5FapNdk9lik5_YI3kZzWvPGMRRkG73LFnM-E/s400/AX_Sync_Centre.png" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">The installer files are attached below:</span><br /><br /><p><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 98px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 115px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-0594e6dbf6c3ce94.skydrive.live.com/embedicon.aspx/AX%20Sync%20Centre" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000066;">Thanks for the feedback :-)</span></p>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2974482147905584746.post-7408642247520308392009-11-14T23:23:00.013+05:302009-11-15T00:18:52.064+05:30AX Application Launcher v2<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">Sometimes back I created an application <strong><span style="color:#990000;">"</span></strong></span><a href="http://daxguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/ax-application-launcher.html"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#990000;"><strong>AX Configuration Launcher</strong></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">"</span></strong> which helped distribute AX Configurations enabling users to open multiple configurations easily. I made some improvements to the earlier application as:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000099;">1. New User Interface</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000099;">2. Ability to sync from a centralized network share</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;color:#000099;">3. Ability to configure the application (Advanced users, config stored in a XML file)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">The screenshot is as follows:-</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0wKVlrCkEuzVceS6cKAFnTMyZ1mVtIVBosRYkSFU9Vk7AYGyaCwvCo3S_eBbcHkk2D7J6KtofY24IFJAoVgVYotVZzHnU9zHtjMrGxQ1PPn1gPlmkCcBQXSu5Yt-ohiiIUARrGETldU/s1600-h/AX_Launcher.png"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 313px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404019139514124930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0wKVlrCkEuzVceS6cKAFnTMyZ1mVtIVBosRYkSFU9Vk7AYGyaCwvCo3S_eBbcHkk2D7J6KtofY24IFJAoVgVYotVZzHnU9zHtjMrGxQ1PPn1gPlmkCcBQXSu5Yt-ohiiIUARrGETldU/s400/AX_Launcher.png" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><br />The video to install and use is displayed below:<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3kPKxW5_uZw&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3kPKxW5_uZw&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />The installation files & video are shared in the link below.<br /><br /></span><iframe style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcfcfc; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 98px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 115px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" title="Preview" marginheight="0" src="http://cid-0594e6dbf6c3ce94.skydrive.live.com/embedicon.aspx/AX%20Application%20Launcher%20v2" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">I tested it out on my local machine as well as at my client. It working fine. The network shared folder must have read access to all users using this tool. In case you use this application, do give me the feedback.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>I will publish the source code in Codeplex (Im working on this now to get a license in Codeplex)</strong></span>Arijit Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01185979527817805880noreply@blogger.com3