One and a half year ago I posted an article which showed how to reset a user session in the Mobile Device Portal inside of the AX WHS module. Today I want to post an update on this issue and show you how to do that in AX 7 / Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Good news...
Today I want to start a small series of blog posts. In this series I would like to show you how to extend AX 7 / D365 objects, without overlayering them, starting with an easy class extension. Class extension 1.0 For this demo I created an extreme simple class, it only contains one method, which just puts out...
Just a quick update on my progress on the Xamarin Challenge. I finished Task #1 – #3 in March and Task #4 & #5 at the end of April. As a result I received my diploma at the beginning of May from Peter Maynard. One can see the diploma in the screenshot below. What is next? The Xamarin...
On today’s Micrsoft Build conference, the Azure team revealed and released a new feature to the Azure Preview Portal. Now, Azure provides managed MySQL databases. Where can I find the new feature? To test the new MySQL service right now, just hit the Preview Portal, by adding the “preview” subdomain in front of the “normal” portal url. Then type...
While creating a few Data Entities in Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX 7) I crashed in the “Natural key not found” error. This error just tells us, that our table is missing a key, that is not a RecId. In this post I want to show you how to setup a Data Entity and also how to resolve that...
Today I finished the Xamarin Challenge part #4 and #5. In the rest of this post you can see what the two new challenges are about and how I completed them. In case you missed the first three parts or you are just curious what I am talking about here, take a look a few lines below, there you can...
In this post I want to show you a quick and dirty way to open a folder via X++ in AX 2012. Open a Folder in AX 2012 I added the following code at a Button in the clicked method like this. All it takes to open a folder via X++, is the DocumentManagementHelper class and its static method...
Last week I stumbled over the Xamarin Challenge in my Facebook timeline. A click later I was in the middle of a so called “coding challenge”, with three challenges ahead of me. If you didn’t took part in the challenge yet, no matter, you can start anytime. In this post I wanted to summarize my experiences when completing...
In this post I want to show, how easily you can utilize the Thread class in AX 2012. Simple Thread example First we want to setup a new class. Next we want to add two static methods, one “slow” method which will use a sleep to simulate a lengthy runtime and one “fast” method. The idea here is that...
Serving static files from a CDN (Content Delivery Network) has various benefits for a website. As your visitors loading your static files, like images, js and css from a different server then yours and often directly from their region, the load time can improve a lot. Your serves payload goes down as well. Setup a CDN on Azure Utilizing...