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October 19, 2011
Computed View Columns in AX 2012
One of the new exciting features in AX 2012 which has not received much attention in my opinion, is the possibility of adding computed columns to your views. In case you are unfamiliar with views, ...
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October 14, 2011
Client Access Log and Binary Data - Weekend Reading
Wanted to point out these two great AX 2012 blog posts from late this afternoon. First on is from the Dynamics AX Performance team, and talks about the client access log in AX 2012. If you want to...
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October 14, 2011
Query Object Datasource Linking
This is based on a question asked on the Microsoft Dynamics AX Community forums, you can find the original post here. I’ve been asked the question of adding datasources to a query object and linkin...
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October 13, 2011
New Whitepaper: AX 2012 Report Programming Model
This one is important enough to do a quick blog post on it. Microsoft has just released a new whitepaper on the AX 2012 report programming model. An official manual on reporting is still in the wor...
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October 11, 2011
Forum: Advanced Display Method Querying Joined Datasources
I thought I’d share this code snippet that I posted on the Dynamics AX Community Forums today. The exact post in question is here. The details of this post apply to Dynamics AX 2009 although I have...
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October 6, 2011
Valid Time State/Date Effective Framework - Part2
In the Part 1 of this article, we went through creating a new table with a valid time state key. You saw how it protects from date overlap and closes gaps automatically. In this article, we’ll see ...
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October 5, 2011
Valid Time State/Date Effective Framework - Part 1
AX 2012 features a new framework called the date effective framework, or valid time state tables. There are many easy examples of date effective data. The easy example is some sort of rate table, w...
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September 28, 2011
Query and New Related Objects in AX 2012
With AX 2012, some new features were added for queries. For those of you who have access to the DEV manuals, one feature is lightly explained in DEV3, the other is absent in the current development...
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September 27, 2011
AX 2012 Testing Best Practices
Dave Froslie just announced on his blog that the whitepaper “Testing best practices for AX 2012” is now available for download on Microsoft’s download center. It is a good read about ALM (Applicti...
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September 22, 2011
AX 2012: Multiple Instances of Reporting Services on the same server
Ok, this was a huge deal in AX 2009 in my opinion. During the TAP program of AX 2012, a whitepaper was released on how to do this, but we’ve had to wait until now for Microsoft to make it public. S...