December, 2008

Many partners asked if it would be possible to have just one Enterprise Portal Server (WSS3.0 or MOSS + EP components) for their EP-development as described in the following scheme:   The answer is no. Theoretically it would be possible to have one...

3.1 Changing types (converting and casting) C# is an strongly-typed programming language (even if there are different opinions about this, but coding managed, safe code with C# will fit the definition of a strongly-typed programming language). I quote...

I had so many problems getting back my latest postings, that I using from now on the 2008 and uninstalling the beta version. Maybe the next version will convince me... ;-) I apologize for all the troubles with your RSS feed.

I often hear from X++ developers, that the .Net garbage collector ( GC ) does not work correctly or that it isn’t as good as the one from Dynamics Ax because it is not known to you when objects are collected. This is of course nonsense not true and the...

Exceptions in Dynamics Ax are quite different than exceptions in .Net. Not only because of the type “System.Exception” and the way you are handling exceptions, but because of the different philosophy on handling exceptions, too. First of all I’d like...

Referenced services in Ax2009 are based on the .Net technology WCF and so it was for me pretty much clear, that it would be easy to integrate Microsoft's MapPoint services, since they are ‘simple’ standard web services. Unfortunately I was wrong. Referenced...

Dynamics Ax offers since Ax4 a .Net support ( BC.Net, EP and CLR objects with X++ ). As a matter of fact .Net will have a more and more important influence on Dynamics Ax since .Net is the glue of the Microsoft product stack . Sharepoint, BizTalk, SQL...

If you have a clustered SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 you might have the following error message: The SQLBrowser service was unable to process a client request. The cause of this problem and why this hasn’t been fixed is described on this...