Dynamics AX 2012: Role based security framework
In addition to many new frameworks that are introduced in the current release of Microsoft Dynamics AX (a leading ERP of Microsoft Business Solution suite), role based authorization framework is one of the key elements that would make the life of AX 2012 customers and vendors easier. Though the security rights and user access management has been […]
New X++ Editor in AX 2012
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How to persist values on runtime in SysLastValue?
Sometimes we need to store values on runtime which are not really worthy of storing in database. Examples could be the fiscal calendar year and period entered by a particular user last time during the session. In many situations, the user would like to know what values he entered last time while doing some processing. […]
Everything tool
Recently, I came across a very light and handy tool to find out files stored anywhere on computer at the blink of an eye. Although, windows search have been improved alot lately but still its quite slow. This tool creates file indexes very quickly and therefor privide search results earlier then windows search. its simple and easy […]
worth reading interview
I was reading an interview with Brandon George taken by DynamicsWorld. Thought it should be shared on my blog. worth reading it. http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/Brandon-George-Interview.php
AOT Maps – the consistent approach to access same data
The AOT maps residing in the data dictionary is very useful element under DD node after tables, enums and EDTs. Perhaps they aren’t as widely used as they should be in usual application programming. However, they have the power to solve some key daily problems in AX running in the production environment. Map defines X++ […]
How to cache records on run-time in AX?
The simple answer is RecordViewCache class. This class is used to implement set-based caching in your code at run-time. 1. First declare the variables. CustTrans custTrans; RecordViewCache recordViewCache; 2 . Call a nofetch query to create a record buffer. It will define the set of records that you want to cache. //Define records to cache select […]
Range of RecID in an AX Table
In every new table the recID (surrogate key) range starts from the no. 5637144576 and since it is int64 so it goes upto 2^63 (9223372036854775808). It also signifies an important fact that we can’t have unique recIDs accross different tables.
Manipulating a form datasource in a class.
It is possible to pass a datasource bound to a grid in a class and then iterate like a query. In this post, I’ll giving some code snippets to work with form datasource in some other object like classes. Step 1: Your method or constructor of the class should be able to recieve FormDataSource type […]
Separate workspace for development in AX 2009
Finally Microsoft has come up with different separate wrokspace for developers of AX. If you have access to the latest build of AX 2009, you’ll notice the absence of all development related tools. Only AOT can be accessed by clicking Ctrl + D (I think they’ll move it away too). For doing all kind of […]