Florian's weblog
My first experience with Microsoft Dynamics AX, BC.Net and the Enterprise Portal at Microsoft.
Limitations of the Dynamics Ax service references
The article about service-references limitations is available on my new blog.
Date: 07/01/2010
Cross domain access to AIF Web Services (Dynamics Ax 2009)
I published the new article on my new blog.
Date: 06/30/2010
.net programming for Dynamics AX developers slides
I published the slides from my last years presentation on my new blog. This is has been the working...
Date: 06/30/2010
Installing the COM Business Connector
I published the new article on my new blog.
Date: 06/23/2010
My blog is Moving
I’m moving to Blogger since I’m writing these articles for personal purposes and I want to have as...
Date: 02/05/2010
Enterprise Portal license required for workflows with dynamics Ax 2009
Dynamics Ax workflow does require the Enterprise Portal (EP) license. License changes since Dynamics...
Date: 01/25/2010
Delete TEMP files when sending mails with attached files
Attaching Documents is a frequently used functionality in Ax (PDF is just an example, but it is true...
Date: 01/25/2010
Working with Images (BLOBS) between Dynamics Ax and external applications (UPDATED: 06/01/2010)
(updated the 05/01/2010 and 06/01/2010) The idea Whenever you need to transfer data in a platform...
Date: 01/04/2010
Memory leaks and profiling with .Net
I wrote some moths ago an article about the GC and highlighted some particularities (unsafe and...
Date: 11/04/2009
IDynamicsAXExpressionBuilder returned error code 0x80131509 - reloaded
As I already wrote it in the update of that blog entry in my first posing about this issue: The...
Date: 08/20/2009
Importing Leads and Contacts
You can find a very good description on our team blog (EMEA Dynamics AX Support) how to import leads...
Date: 08/18/2009
Template Wizard does create SheetNames with more than 30 characters
The Template Wizard (Administration/Periodic/Data export/import/Excel spreadsheets/Template Wizard)...
Date: 08/18/2009
Large Xml-documents with an AIF-WebService.
If you are faced to 'large' Xml-documents with AIF-WebServices, you might be faced to difficulties...
Date: 08/11/2009
‘0’-values don’t appear in Xml files generated by the AIF
Numeric values that are 0 (not null) are not serialized and don't appear in the Xml file. The reason...
Date: 08/11/2009
AIF-service call with COM and .Net Business Connector
When executing an AIF-service with the COM and .Net Business Connector the client will not be...
Date: 08/11/2009
Request for the permission of type 'SecurityPermission' failed
When you get the following exception while executing a report on the SSRS or within Ax:...
Date: 08/10/2009
base64Encode() of the kernel class ‘Image’ does return an empty string
A partner asked me why the base64Encode method of the Image class does always return an empty...
Date: 08/10/2009
Gender information in Employees-form and the Global Address Book (GAB)
You can open the information about employees with the Global Address Book (Basic/Global Address...
Date: 08/10/2009
IDynamicsAXExpressionBuilder returned error code 0x80131509
In forms that are using the ActiveX-control ExpressionBuilder (like TrvPolicyForm) you might be...
Date: 05/05/2009
Webcast: .Net for X++ programmers
I will do a short Webcast about .Net basics for X++ developers which is based on the articles I...
Date: 03/19/2009
Some links to IIS 7 information
IIS 7 changed fundamentally since IIS 6. Here are some links that might help you when you feel lost...
Date: 03/03/2009
Deploying service references with Dynamics Ax 2009
Service references are are great feature in Dynamics Ax 2009 and using WCF with Ax is now really...
Date: 02/09/2009
RPC error 1702 when calling a WinAPI method from a batch job
You probably already noticed that error messages are sometimes not really helpful when you are...
Date: 01/29/2009
AxUpdatePortal Utility
I just want to remind the existence of this nice little tool, which is be very useful for any...
Date: 01/28/2009
Internet Explorer 8 RC1
Because I blogged about Google Chrome when it was getting beta, I’m doing this with the IE 8, too....
Date: 01/27/2009
Enums and localization… in X++
On Msdn enumerators (Enums) are described as: X++ does not support constants but has an enumerable...
Date: 01/08/2009
How to develop with multiple developers on an Enterprise Portal (Ax2009) application
Many partners asked if it would be possible to have just one Enterprise Portal Server (WSS3.0 or...
Date: 12/22/2008
3. Some important things for a X++ developer to know when writing C# code
3.1 Changing types (converting and casting) C# is an strongly-typed programming language (even if...
Date: 12/21/2008
Don't mix Live Writer 2008 (build 12.x.x.x) with Live Writer beta (Build 14.x.x.x)
I had so many problems getting back my latest postings, that I using from now on the 2008 and...
Date: 12/15/2008
1. The garbage collector in X++ and the CLR
I often hear from X++ developers, that the .Net garbage collector (GC) does not work correctly or...
Date: 12/15/2008
2. Exception handling in X++ and C#
Exceptions in Dynamics Ax are quite different than exceptions in .Net. Not only because of the type...
Date: 12/15/2008
Why some Web services can’t be consumed ‘as is’ by referenced services in Ax 2009
Referenced services in Ax2009 are based on the .Net technology WCF and so it was for me pretty much...
Date: 12/06/2008
The CLR for X++ programmers
Dynamics Ax offers since Ax4 a .Net support (BC.Net, EP and CLR objects with X++). As a matter of...
Date: 12/06/2008
Workaround for problems with the SQL Browser in a clustered SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 (Ax4 and Ax2009)
If you have a clustered SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 you might have the following error...
Date: 12/04/2008
using the BC.Net with Ax2009 et Ax4 on the same machine might result in a AccessViolationException
I was working on a case where a partner was having problems with the Business Connecter for Ax2009....
Date: 11/25/2008
Convergence 2008 in Copenhagen…
Ok, it was great fun, a great opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people and have many really...
Date: 11/21/2008
Ax4 + SSAS 2005 - troubleshooting
Normally this is combination isn’t a problem – if you did everything fine directly from the...
Date: 11/10/2008
Live Mesh is great!
I was working the last three days with Live Mesh, which is currently in beta now, and it is...
Date: 11/09/2008
Changed application elements Ax2009 vs. Ax4 SP2
This Excel spreadsheet list all application elements changed in Ax2009 since Ax4 SP2.
Date: 11/05/2008
Axapta 3: ADO instead of ODBC or install the SP6
I recently did face a quite annoying problem with the OdbcConnection-class on Axapta 3 (client build...
Date: 11/04/2008
Meet me at the Convergence 2008
I’ll be there from the 18-20 November 2008.
Date: 11/03/2008
Passing CLR-object between an Ax-client and the AOS
As explained on msdn you can’t pass an CLR-object between a Ax-client and the AOS. So the following...
Date: 11/03/2008
Handling .Net exceptions with X++
In my last blog I was talking about casting CLR-objects in X++. In the code example you might have...
Date: 10/22/2008
Casting CLR-objects with X++
Casting CLR-objects with X++ isn’t that obvious as it is in .Net languages as C# or even VB.Net. The...
Date: 10/22/2008
ReportViewer
If you need a great reporting tool, or you want to use the RDLs from the Reporting Services 2005...
Date: 10/15/2008
Back from holidays...
.. and back on this blog. ;-)
Date: 10/15/2008
Is Google Chrome open-source?
The German blog datenschutzbeauftragter-online questioned the assertion that Chrome is open-source....
Date: 09/04/2008
.Net 3.5 SP1 with Ax2009
Unfortunately Ax2009 does create in conjunction with the .Net 3.5 SP1 the following exception: A...
Date: 09/03/2008
Google Chrome
Google presented today a comic that described their project for their new browser which will be...
Date: 09/02/2008
How to implement FileSystemWatcher with X++
The CLR offers with System.IO.FileSystemWatcher a very simple to use class which can be used with...
Date: 09/01/2008