Performance Guide
3 years ago I had an idea; writing a book about performance. Great Idea but, my co-writer started working for MS and had a lot of legal stuff, AX 2012 came along, and Publishers think that thing like...
View ArticlePerformance Dashboard.
In previous posts, I told that we have started a new business. This new business is an ISV solution for Performance monitoring in Dynamics AX. The product is getting there. The first reference...
View ArticleYou don’t exist because you are not referred in “terdege’s newsletter”
5 months ago we start a new business. We contacted Microsoft and are running for silver ISV and Consulting partner status. We made a company website. Do our daily business. So it looks great! Then we...
View ArticleCluster index
These days we have the surrogate key in AX 2012. In general it is a recid Index that acts as primary and cluster index. Theoretically this looks perfect as long as we develop in the AX 2012 style. But...
View ArticleRecruiters
This story is a combination of different experiences and not descriptive of any recruiter My mobile phone is ringing. The number is from the UK. I pick up the phone. Before I can even say my name...
View Article8 years being Dynamics Ax Developer trainer
Ok here I am, looking at my glass of beer in a hotel in London. Just a new week of business training for Dynamics AX developers. It is only Development I and II yet the students think they can make...
View ArticleDynamics AX Compatibility with SQL Server 2008 SP3 and R2 SP2
Perhaps you recognize this scenario. Dear customer please update to the latest service pack of SQL. You customer replies, are the supported? The answer is official not, but the current version is also...
View ArticleInside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
The postman dropt me finally the book ‘inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012’ I have read the first 200 pages of the 700 and I’m glad I bought the book. It is like a refresh of your knowledge, even when...
View Articleupgrade to AX 2012 R2
I thought an upgrade from AX 2012 to AX 2012 R2 was easy My customer asks me if we could upgrade to R2. I should him no problem. But it had acutely more work than I expected. - There is country...
View ArticlePerformance issues with table inheritance.
After developing for more than 1 year on AX 2012. I have seen the blesses and the blames of table inheritance. Let’s start on the blesses: Use always a query on your form with the option...
View ArticleAx 2012 (R2) Labels
I see a lot of people having trouble with their labels in Dynamics AX. I will explain a little bit on how it works on the backend. The first thing you should know is that the label files are stored in...
View Articlesecurity on your ques
Default Dynamics AX 2012 has a inhabit with cues on role centers. Would it not be great if on cue group with all cues needed for the business in it will fulfill on al role centers. In case you don’t …...
View ArticleWCF is a strange thing.
There are a few minor things that you should be aware of when using AifGatewayReceiveService: You would expect it to only read up to 100 files, as defined in the AIF macro, but it is able to read an...
View ArticleBest practice checks.
When checking my Ax code, I always use best practice checks. Most of the time I perform this during the last 10 minutes of the day. I do not use compiler level 4 but I have to admit this has … Continue...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics AX Diagnostic Framework (Beta) tool
Today I have installed the Microsoft Dynamics AX Diagnostic Framework (Beta) tool and I would like to share my first impressions with you. In simple terms it is a type of windows service, with a...
View ArticleInstall enterprise portal on SharePoint 2013
It is an exciting day! Someone from MS Redmond (THANKS JARED, you are my hero of the day!) told me to request KB2830441. It is SharePoint 2013 integration. So I requested it like an ordinary Partner...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics Most Influential People Top 100
yes voting is over, and we have a list. the AX MVP, http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/22-brandon-george/ http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/57-mohamed-aameralaeldin/...
View ArticleReplacement key in AX 2012
As we all know the default primary and cluster index in AX is the recid index. When we add a primary key based relation to a table we get a new column with the refrecid, an index for that column and a...
View ArticleSecurity Privilege generator
While upgrading AX 2009 solutions to AX 2012. I became tired of creating all those privileges. It was the same for every menu item; again and again; create a view and a maintain privilege. So for all...
View ArticlePrinting PDF documents
I had some trouble generated PDF in AX 2012 last months. The issue is A4 paper size, but also printing in landscape. I start looking in AX, Visual studio; everything was fine, but the PDF documents...
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