Data Access Overview

Applies To: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

Data sets in Microsoft Dynamics AX provide a generic data access layer that allows for external presentation layers (like Enterprise Portal) to bind to Microsoft Dynamics AX tables and data types. The ASP.NET-based framework used for Enterprise Portal accesses data through data sets. The following topics provide information about using data sets with Enterprise Portal.

In This Section

• Data Sets for Enterprise Portal

• How to: Create Data Sets

• How to: Add Methods to Data Sets

• Data Set Views

• Ranges for Data Sets

• Performance for Data Sets

• Pack/Unpack for Data Sets

• Configuring the Lookup for a Data Set Field

• Surrogate Keys

• Table Inheritance