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• November 6, 2013

  What You Need To Know About the 15-minute CU7 Compiler

  If you hadn’t heard yet, CU7 has been released for AX 2012 R2. Lots of things to get excited about (comparing reports anyone?), the thing I’m most excited about is the new compile optimization. We ...

• September 26, 2013

  Linq to AX Example using WPF

  Today I decided to investigate and blog about a feature I haven’t tried since the beta of AX 2012 R2: the Linq connector. I do a quite a bit of C# work regularly, not related to AX, and Linq (along...

• August 20, 2013

  XLNT - A Most "Excellent" Framework for X++

  Although demonstrated and praised quite a few times by Master Obi-Wan Villadsen and his team, the XLNT framework is still a little-known framework that contains a lot of power. So much so that the ...

• August 1, 2013

  Auto-Deploying DLLs and Other Resources - Part 2

  In the first post of this series on deploying resources, I discussed the framework and some of its issues we’ll have to deal with. In this article, we’ll actually write the code to support that art...

• July 31, 2013

  Custom Query Range Functions using SysQueryRangeUtil

  You’ve probably seen these requests before. Users want to submit some report or other functionality to batch, and the query should always be run for “yesterday”. It’s a typical example where, as a ...

• July 19, 2013

  Auto-Deploying DLLs and Other Resources - Intermission

  I posted part 1 of the auto-deploying DLLs and other resources article last month. Although I will finish the part 2 article as promised, an interesting comment and subsequent email discussion / te...

• June 29, 2013

  R2 Hotfix for Compile Time needs Schema Update

  Just a quick note on the hotfix that was released quite a while ago to improve compile times on R2. Many blogs including the official Microsoft one linked directly to the hotfix, and many people ha...

• June 20, 2013

  Dynamics AX Admin Tools - CodeCrib.AX.Config

  Yesterday I released code libraries and a wrapper PowerShell cmdlet libraries to automate installs of AX and maintain client and server configurations for AX. I also blogged an example of an instal...

• June 19, 2013

  Dynamics AX Admin Tools - CodeCrib.AX.Setup

  Long overdue for release, I’m glad to announce the first beta of my admin tools. These tools are still a work in progress, but you can start taking advantage of these right away. As you probably kn...

• May 28, 2013

  Auto-Deploying DLLs and Other Resources - Part 1

  In my article on .NET Assembly Deployment in AX 2012 we reviewed how assemblies are deployed for Visual Studio projects as well as the CIL generate for X++. However, there are several scenarios one...