The article about service-references limitations is available on my new blog.

I published the new article on my new blog .

I published the slides from my last years presentation on my new blog . This is has been the working draft, but it contains much more slides as the final version, so I’m publishing this one.

I published the new article on my new blog .

I’m moving to Blogger since I’m writing these articles for personal purposes and I want to have as much control as possible on my postings. So Please be aware that I will will publish my next articles on the new blog .

Dynamics Ax workflow does require the Enterprise Portal (EP) license. License changes since Dynamics Ax 4 can be found here . Please double-check that the EP license is well configured when the BC.Net throws the following exception (can be found in the...

Attaching Documents is a frequently used functionality in Ax (PDF is just an example, but it is true for any attached file): That is why tmp-files, that are generated each time you are using this, might consume quickly an important part of your hard disk...

(updated the 05/01/2010 and 06/01/2010) The idea Whenever you need to transfer data in a platform specific format (like Images), the easiest way of doing this is to create an envelope (in Xml) and put the data in an encoded format in this envelope. Here...

I wrote some moths ago an article about the GC and highlighted some particularities (unsafe and unmanaged code, disposing and finalizing, etc). When you are developing with .Net you will be sometimes faced to memory or resource leaks. Especially if...

As I already wrote it in the update of that blog entry in my first posing about this issue: The origin of this issue can be found in the method ' buildEnumerationXml ' of the class ' SysExpression ': Currently, a loop iterates until the last element:...

You can find a very good description on our team blog (EMEA Dynamics AX Support) how to import leads and contact Xml files with Dynamics Ax 2009 here . The problem you will be faced by using this is, that you can’t import data with non Ascii characters...

The Template Wizard (Administration/Periodic/Data export/import/Excel spreadsheets/Template Wizard) creates unfortunately SheetNames that might exceed 30 characters, which is not allowed by Excel and results in annoying message boxes that are requesting...

If you are faced to 'large' Xml-documents with AIF-WebServices, you might be faced to difficulties for Inbound and OutBound services. The following two points should be applied for the client app.config, if the client uses the WCF for communicating with...

Numeric values that are 0 (not null) are not serialized and don't appear in the Xml file. The reason for this is, that the numeric types in Dynamics Ax are not nullable (must have a value) and do interpret the value 0 as a "null value" (0 as...

When executing an AIF-service with the COM and .Net Business Connector the client will not be notified about exceptions during the execution. The reason for this is, that AIF-services are always executed within a transaction ( ttslevel = 1) even when...

When you get the following exception while executing a report on the SSRS or within Ax: System.Security.SecurityException was unhandled Message=" Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, mscorlib, Version...

A partner asked me why the base64Encode method of the Image class does always return an empty string. In the following example: 1: Image image; 2: str sBase64Encode; 3: ; 4: image = new Image(); 5: image.loadImage(@ 'C:\sample.bmp...

You can open the information about employees with the Global Address Book (Basic/Global Address Book) and with the Employees form (Basic/Employees). Normally it is no problem to modify data in both forms, but unfortunately this is not true for the...

In forms that are using the ActiveX-control ExpressionBuilder (like TrvPolicyForm) you might be faced to the following error message: Method 'initialize' in COM object of class 'IDynamicsAXExpressionBuilder' returned error code 0x80131509 (<unknown>...

I will do a short Webcast about .Net basics for X++ developers which is based on the articles I posted here recently. During 1 hour I’ll talk about the basics of .Net and how to do’s. If you are a X++ programmer and you are new to .Net, this Webcast might...

IIS 7 changed fundamentally since IIS 6. Here are some links that might help you when you feel lost with all these changes ;-) IIS 7 Links: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732976.aspx ( IIS 7.0: Operations Gui de) http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference...

Service references are are great feature in Dynamics Ax 2009 and using WCF with Ax is now really easy. But unfortunately it is not easy to deploy this service reference. If you now need to deploy a service reference from the development environment to...

You probably already noticed that error messages are sometimes not really helpful when you are trying to understand a problem. The following code creates such misleading error message: 1: public void run() 2: { 3: ; 4: if (WinApi::folderExists...

I just want to remind the existence of this nice little tool , which is be very useful for any deployment or redeployment of your WebParts and EP-sites. Basically it is a simple .Net command-line executable which calls the same method as the AxSetup does...

Because I blogged about Google Chrome when it was getting beta, I’m doing this with the IE 8, too. You can now install the RC1 of this version, which is very close the the final version. This version is available here . The key features of this version...