The last few days I have been playing around with the Enterprise Portal. I needed to setup a High Available portal and there were soms discoveries along the road. Though I’m planning on writing some other posts on the general architecture used when installing the Enterprise Portal in a HA environment and the possible installation […]
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AX2012 DLL Deployment and how AX binds DLL’s at runtime
In an earlier post I have showed how to use custom WPF controls with Dynamics AX 2012. Well when using this type of fuctionality, you will often come into troubles when using it on other environments because of the corresponding DLL files not being deployed on their machine. For that, you can use the automatic […]
Hosting custom WPF calendar control in AX 2012
The requirement A couple of days ago, I needed to create a calendar like lookup but it had to be possible to block out dates for selection. In Dynamics AX, there is calendar lookup form available, but there are some minors to it: It is not really (easy) customizable It has limited functionality What I […]
Running AX2012 R2 locally on Windows 2012 Server booted directly from VHD
I have been working on a large project since a couple of months now and we use a virtualized environment where every developer has his own proprietary development machine. I am not going to make any statements about virtualization and the hardware that is beneath all of those machines is definitely ok.But here’s the thing: […]
Dynamics 2012 R2 In-place Upgrade : Configuration Issues
Today I was performing an in-place upgrade to R2 and that was an adventure on it’s own First let’s start of by saying that the in-place upgrade documentation on MSDN was really helpful and well written! But anyway, I wanted to tell you about two specific issues that I’ve encountered : Database and AOS on […]
AX2012 R2 – Hidden compiler errors – Update
Recently I was reading a post concerning hidden compiler error messages in Dynamics AX2012 on the blog of Joris Degruyter. Nice post since it also made me realize we were facing the same problem! (You can read all about the details in the blog post) To solve the issue, there was a hotfix known by […]
AX2012 R2 : DB Sync – Failed to create a session
Thanks to a Kevin Roos, for spending the time to look into this one! We have been seeing the following error lately in AX2012 R2: Failed to create a session; confirm that the user has the proper privileges to log on to Microsoft Dynamics A closer look into this learned that this is linked […]
Dynamics AX 2012 R2 : XppPrePostArgs changes
Amongst many other changes made in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, there has been soms changed to the XppPrePostArgs class too. But before you even read further, please also have a good read through a series of posts made by Joris Degruyter. The series give a nice overview of using models and events to make you […]
System.Diagnostics.StopWatch
I often see code that still uses the WinApi::GetTickCount method to measure an interval of time. And though there is nothing wrong with it, I wanted to show an alternative method : the StopWatch already known in .Net for quite some time. The sample below show the usage of the stopwatch while I was testing something […]
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services ready!
Hi to all of you! It has been a while since I have posted some useful content here. Mainly to the fact that I was focussing on getting the content in the book. And now we can finally say that it is finished, reviewed and approved! So as we speak the presses are rolling to […]