Blog - page 9

• April 30, 2012

  Changing a Model Name When Using TFS on AX 2012

  One of the challenges we recently faced was renaming a model on an AX 2012 system that is hooked up to TFS. As it turns out, it’s not a big deal, really. Make sure everyone is off the system, s...

• March 16, 2012

  Blog Update and Convergence

  I realize it’s been longer than usual for another update to appear on this blog. Don’t fear, there is more to come! We are experiencing the surge in demand due to the AX 2012 release, and our offic...

• February 18, 2012

  Code Snippets in AX 2012

  I wanted to post a little follow-up on an article presented by my fellow blogger Brandon George. In his post XppSource Exposed: Inserting Code Snippets he explains to his colleague the mysterious s...

• February 16, 2012

  AX 2009 Troubleshooting Resources

  The Microsoft Dynamics AX support team has started a new blog dedicated to highlighting the top resources for troubleshooting issues with AX 2009. Aside from listing the issues and resources, they ...

• January 24, 2012

  Enterprise Portal Web URL Lookup Error

  Got this interesting info today on an issue with Enterprise Portal development. When creating a new URL in the Web > Web Menu Items > URLs node in the AOT, you have to type in the relative U...

• January 24, 2012

  Windows Phone 7 Must-Have Development Tools

  Not AX related, unless you want to develop a 10-minute Windows Phone 7 app (see what I did there?). In any case, came across this interesting post through twitter, which highlights some great tool...

• January 18, 2012

  Importing Data to AX 2012 Using Excel Add-ins

  I came across an extremely useful blog while reading Twitter today. Alex Anikiev has started posting a series of blog posts on importing data into AX 2012 using the Excel add-ins. He lists the step...

• January 17, 2012

  Preview Pane on List Pages

  Preview Panes are those sections at the bottom of list pages that show more information about the selected record in the list page’s grid. For a preview pane, you can use ANY type of part available...

• January 6, 2012

  Enterprise Portal in AX 2012

  Of course, first of all, happy new year! Oh, and: FIRST POST! :-) With AX 2012, Enterprise Portal has also gotten an upgrade. It is now built on SharePoint 2010, and also hooks into the Enterprise...

• December 13, 2011

  Resolving Compile Errors and Generating CIL is not Optional

  All too often I visit clients or move in a code release to a production environment, only to find there are compile errors in the environment. This is totally unacceptable, and not just in a produc...