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.

Author: flo2005 Date: 07/01/2010

Cross domain access to AIF Web Services (Dynamics Ax 2009)

I published the new article on my new blog.

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 Date: 06/30/2010

Installing the COM Business Connector

I published the new article on my new blog.

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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)...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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:...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 Date: 08/10/2009

IDynamicsAXExpressionBuilder returned error code 0x80131509

In forms that are using the ActiveX-control ExpressionBuilder (like TrvPolicyForm) you might be...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 Date: 03/19/2009

IIS 7 changed fundamentally since IIS 6. Here are some links that might help you when you feel lost...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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....

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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....

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 Date: 11/21/2008

Ax4 + SSAS 2005 - troubleshooting

Normally this is combination isn’t a problem – if you did everything fine directly from the...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 Date: 11/09/2008

Changed application elements Ax2009 vs. Ax4 SP2

This Excel spreadsheet list all application elements changed in Ax2009 since Ax4 SP2.

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 Date: 11/04/2008

Meet me at the Convergence 2008

I’ll be there from the 18-20 November 2008.

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 Date: 10/22/2008

ReportViewer

If you need a great reporting tool, or you want to use the RDLs from the Reporting Services 2005...

Author: flo2005 Date: 10/15/2008

Back from holidays...

.. and back on this blog. ;-)

Author: flo2005 Date: 10/15/2008

Is Google Chrome open-source?

The German blog datenschutzbeauftragter-online questioned the assertion that Chrome is open-source....

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 Date: 09/03/2008

Google Chrome

Google presented today a comic that described their project for their new browser which will be...

Author: flo2005 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...

Author: flo2005 Date: 09/01/2008

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