Dynamics AX
Microsoft demo day
I spent the day yesterday at Microsoft’s Irving campus at a demo day required by part-time Microsoft consulting gig. It was interesting, in it own way. Nice to be able to get together with everyone from the consulting gig, most of whom I rarely see in person. Nice to check out MS’s [...]
How _not_ to create sales orders in AX from VB
Microsoft has published a wonderful how-to on using the Dynamics AX Business Connector to create sales orders from VB. Only, I feel sorry for you trying to maintain this code if you do it the way they recommend!
It’ll work, yes…but, it’s extremely verbose. Individually setting field values across the .NET/COM connector is a [...]
Dynamics AX: Making .NET calls from inside AX
In a typical fashion, Microsoft spent a lot of effort integrating a variety of it's new technologies in Dynamic AX 4 (nee Axapta). Often these additions are of questionable benefit to the end-user/customer -- but, the ability to make direct calls to the .NET/CLR from AX's built in X++ language is pretty handy for [...]
I done been certified
While most who know me will testify that I'm certifiable, I now have paperwork to prove it. That's right, ladies and gentleman, you are in the presence (in the abstract) of a "Microsoft Certified Business Management Solutions Specialist" -- try to fit that on your business card.
While not really a priority in my book, [...]
Dynamics AX (Axapta) String class
I've posted a utility String class I wrote years ago for Axapta. I've also compiled and used it in Dynamics AX v4. It extends the rather limited built-in string functions with a number of other common string manipulations and comparisons like "endsWith", "replace", "split", etc.
Dynamics AX docs
I just realized Microsoft has put all the Dynamics AX (nee Axapta) docs on MSDN. That's handy.
Convergence…of what?
Microsoft Business Solutions is a rudderless ship. Just take a look at the website for their big annual conference, Convergence 2006. I took a look because I am an Axapta users. Axapta is a great ERP package that MBS has run into the ground since acquiring it several years ago.
I also took [...]
It’s live!
The new version of website/webstore that I've been doing for work is now "live." It's been largely done and in-use by a handful of customers for several months, but we finally flipped the switch and moved it over the "www" address. It's a custom .NET site, all written in C# that fully integrates [...]
str/boolean – string/bool
The two languages I'm currently writing most of my code in at work are C# and X++ (proprietary Axapta language). One thing about the base datatypes is driving me nuts, however. In C#, strings are "string" and booleans are "bool". In X++, strings are "str" and booleans are "boolean".
Doesn't that seem a [...]
RE: The big upgrade
Well, the big upgrade went smoothly. A couple of unexpected issues with the SQL database, but they were easy to fix. Many of the update steps went much quicker than I had expected, too. My time estimates were based on running the upgrades on my laptop, I knew they would be much [...]
The big upgrade
This weekend I'm going to upgrade our Axapta installation at work from v2.5SP3 to v3.0SP1. It's a pretty big upgrade, primarily because of changes Microsoft/Navision made to the underlying database schema, and the report structure. These changes required me to practically redo many of the modifications I'd made to the system...a process I've [...]
Code validation
I'm working on upgrading our Axapta ERP installation to version 3.0...which involves the tedious process of code review and merging my mods with the application changes (which, BTW, is a _lot_ easier in Axapta than in most solutions).
I've been finding myself very validated by doing this update, however, because I keep running into things while [...]
Microsoft Axapta?
It appears Navision Axapta, the ERP solution I work with at the office, is in danger of becoming Microsoft Axapta. Not too happy about that. Microsoft bought Great Plains Software last year, and appears to working on choking off vitality and competition in the small-to-midsize company ERP business. Gack.
XML-RPC for Axapta project
I've posted my XML-RPC client for Axapta. No one who reads this site has Axapta, so that's probably not that useful to any of you -- but I wanted it to have a home.
XML-RPC in Axapta
I spent the better part of today doing something I've been meaning to get around to for some time...writing an XML-RPC client for Axapta, the ERP application I program for at work.
I had already laid some of the groundwork, extending wrapper classes for the WinInet API...and Axapta already has wrapper classes for the MS-XML parser, [...]