The Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal Blog

Setting Left/Right Zone size on a Enterprise Portal page

DiwakarB — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:49:00 GMT

Enterprise Portal supports 8 different page templates. Each of these come with different SharePoint Zones and each has a predefined width assigned to each of the zones. Further SharePoint Zones by nature tend to expand to fit the contents (i.e. Webparts)....(read more)

Persisting Filter conditions in EP Grid

meysun — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:59:00 GMT

Persisting Filter condition in EP Grid In AX 2009, EP grid control comes with an advanced filter. Here is a code to persist the filter condition the user last entered in a page for that user, so that later when the user comes back to the same page the...(read more)

Sreencast : Deploying EP in NLB configuration

DiwakarB — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:16:00 GMT

Here is a screencast done by Anunay Kumar (Test on Enterprise Portal team in Redmond) - http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/diwakarb/Sreencast--Deploying-EP-in-NLB-configuration This screencast walks through the steps involved in configuring Enterprise Portal...(read more)

Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal Development Webinar - Recording

DiwakarB — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:58:00 GMT

Finally i was able to get the recording uploaded. It is not the original recording. Had some issues with Live meeting, so re-recorded the webinar.The recording is available on Channel9 - http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/diwakarb/Dynamics-AX-Enterprise-Portal-Development-Webinar...(read more)

EP Development Webinar - Presentation Deck

DiwakarB — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:35:00 GMT

I have attached the PPT I presented at the EP Development Webinar on 28th April. I will trying to get the recoridng uploaded as well. Will post it in couple of days....(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal Development and Deployment Webinars

DiwakarB — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:14:00 GMT

We are having four webinars on Microsoft Dynamics AX EP development and deployment , one each in North America and EMEA time zone. This is open to all partners, customers and Microsoft employees. Session 1 : EP Development ( repeated) – 28 th April by...(read more)

Convergence 2009 - New Orleans

DiwakarB — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:27:00 GMT

I am presenting Enterprise Portal for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 at Covergence 2009 in New Orleans function uplSlides(url) { window.open(url, '', 'top=10,left=10,height=650,width=500,toolbars=no,status=no,addressbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');...(read more)

Filtering a DataSet from Code behind

DiwakarB — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:33:19 GMT

Enterprise portal allows filtering the list pages using the Filter control available on the EP Grid. The Filter control provides a UI to select the field, criteria and the values you want to filter the grid. It is also possible to add multiple conditions....(read more)

Sharing Code between User Controls in EP

DiwakarB — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:48:00 GMT

One of the commonly asked questions is - How do I share code between different EP controls. Enterprise Portal in AX 2009, supports sharing of code using a dummy User Control (we call this a dummy user control as it doesn’t have any UI and contains only...(read more)

Managed DataSet – Part 2. Enumerating Rows.

jeppeoml — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:19:55 GMT

As promised in part 1 I will continue with discussing the new Managed DataSet and in particular focus on how to write code that uses the DataSet. As I am writing this I realize that there will be many parts to this saga which will gradually uncover more...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Portal Quick starts and Screen casts

meysun — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:23:00 GMT

Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is built on ASP.net/AJAX and provides full power and flexibility to developers to build real , modern, interactive and responsive web applications for intranet, extranet and Internet scenarios....(read more)

MorphX DataSet, Managed DataSet and Data Binding – Part 1

jeppeoml — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:39:52 GMT

EP 2009 comes with a whole new way to data bind and access AX data and yet it is still very familiar (as you will learn in this post) if you have developed EP WebForms and AX client Forms. The new way is the DataSet. Since EP 2009 is implemented using...(read more)

UX Guidelines for EP 2009

jeppeoml — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:02:44 GMT

The UX team has released the latest UX guidelines for Dynamics AX 2009 which include details on the UX guidelines for EP 2009. It covers the various pages types as well as the standard EP controls in detail. Very useful stuff! Download them here...(read more)

Remove the ugliness

jeppeoml — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:15:31 GMT

It was pointed out to me that I had made a small mistake on my previous post . There is an ugly gap between my toolbar and the grid. There is actually some javascript code that runs when the page is rendered that will remove the gap which makes it look...(read more)

Using AX Labels in EP 2009

jeppeoml — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:58:00 GMT

The AX Label is a core component in the localization support in AX and thus also in EP 2009. There are three main ways you can use labels from the AX label system in EP: Automatically as a result of the metadata driven UI The AxLabel expression in markup...(read more)