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May 1, 2013
Mixing Dynamic and Static Queries with System Services in AX 2012
In the “old” blog post about using WPF connected to the query service in AX, we talked about consuming a static query and displaying the data set in a WPF grid. The goal there was to be able to whi...
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April 25, 2013
Dynamics AX 2012 Compile Times
As I’m sure most of you are aware, compile times in Dynamics AX 2012 are a concern with more functionality being added. Especially on our build environments, which are (non-optimized) virtual machi...
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April 16, 2013
Exception Handling in Dynamics AX
Exception handling in Dynamics AX is a topic that is not discussed too often. I figured I would provide a quick musing about some of my favorite exception handling topics. Database Transactions Ex...
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March 27, 2013
Performance Info from Convergence 2013
This week at Convergence, I attended several sessions (and actually moderated an interactive discussion session) on performance in Dynamics AX. As expected, customers and partners showed up with sp...
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March 14, 2013
Convergence 2013
For those of you waiting on the continuation of the TFS series - please be patient. Next week is Convergence and a lot of time and energy is being put into preparing both our Sikich company booth (...
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March 1, 2013
How We Manage Development - Organizing TFS
In the first post, I presented an overview of how we have architected our development infrastructure to support multiple clients. In this article, we will look at how we organize TFS to support our...
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February 28, 2013
How We Manage Development - Architecture
With all the posts about TFS and details on builds etc, I thought it was time to take a step back and explain how we manage development in general. What infrastructure do we have, how does this who...
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February 7, 2013
AX 2012's Hidden Compile Errors
This post title caught your attention huh? Well, it should. For about half a year or longer now, we’ve been struggling with a strange issue with AX 2012 compiles. We finally found more or less what...
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January 9, 2013
Fixing code caching on AX environment copies
Copying AX environments and their databases is a fact of life. You need data refreshed, you want an exact replica to troubleshoot something, or you just need a good copy to do training or testing o...
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January 7, 2013
Multi-select on form datasource grid : MultiSelectionHelper
In Dynamics AX it has traditionally been somewhat cumbersome to iterate the selected records on a form datasource. The main issue is that there is a difference in iterating depending on how and wha...