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Monday, June 25, 2007 9:43 AM

AX 4.0 Enterprise Portal and WSS 3.0 - Themes

When you apply other themes from WSS, like Reflector or Plastic, Enterprise Portal (EP) retains the default theme. This is because EP doesn't ship with style sheets for all the themes of WSS. To customize the EP style sheet to match the WSS theme you
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Monday, June 25, 2007 9:19 AM

Deploying AX with other directory servers than Active Directory

As you may very well know AX can't be deployed with other directory servers than Active Directory (AD). But a product like Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) allows you to integrate between AD and other directory servers. This will allow you
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:52 PM

Use regular expressions in the Find dialog

The cross reference in AX is to me a very important tool to stay on top of things. I use it for research trying figure out how things are connected and I use it when I refactor code to see if I need to change any surrounding code. In our development environment
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:54 AM

Create a project from items checked out with the version control

I regularly install a new build of AX, so I have to export and import the stuff I'm working on. I have written the following job to help me create a Private Project of whatever is checked out. static void SysCreatePendingObjectsProject(Args _args) { Dialog
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:43 AM

Missing datatype in the Fincancial Dimension Wizard

The Fincancial Dimensions Wizard is really helpfull if you need to add new dimensions to the system. It has come to my attention though that it skips an extended datatype which also should be updated. The datatype is DimensionExtCodeId and it is important
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:23 AM

Dynamics AX 4.0 SP1 Localized is available

You can now download the localized version of 4.0 SP1. It supports the following 32 countries/regions: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Ireland,
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Friday, December 01, 2006 10:39 AM

Dynamics AX 4.0 Service Pack 1 ships

Dynamics AX 4.0 Service Pack 1 release is available on Customer Source and Partner Source using these links: CS – https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/support/downloads/servicepacks/ax40sp1_download.htm PS – https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/downloads/servicepack/ax40sp1_download.ht
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Friday, October 20, 2006 8:29 AM

Display customizable help or status text in the status line

In the right side of the status line there is a small area where you set custom texts independently of the help text (which is shown to the left). Here is a small job demonstrating this: static void setStatusLineText(Args _args) { ; xUserInfo::statusLine_CustomText(true);
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Monday, October 02, 2006 8:09 AM

Smarter dialogs

I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that dialogs for jobs in AX gets more and more complicated. I have a feeling a few of them could solve most of the world’s problems with hunger and pollution, if I could only figure out how fill the dialog fields
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Monday, September 18, 2006 8:21 AM

New Channel 9 video

Watch Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan explain the cool AX model-driven architecture from your desk in this new Channel 9 video: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=235384 Michael is a co-author of the " Inside Dynamics AX 4.0 " book. Read more
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Monday, September 04, 2006 2:29 PM

AOS shutting down clients unexpectedly

This issue pops up regularly in the AX Dynamics newsgroups and our internal mailling lists. The AOS shuts down clients unexpectedly with the error "The server has terminated the session. The client will now close." This is due to a problem with remote
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Friday, August 25, 2006 6:50 PM

Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 is now shipping

This book seems to be shipping now. Here is an excerpt from the book description: Dive deep in to the architectural details of Microsoft Dynamics AX to make relationships clear and development tasks easier. The first part of the book is aimed at consultants
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 7:15 AM

Analyzing table relations of a Query object

One of my ISV Buddies asked me how he could write code to analyze the table relations between the data sources of a Query object. Here is the job I wrote for him as an example. I thought it might could be of general interest. static void QueryLinks(Args
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:42 AM

Upgrade problems caused by field- or table Id conflicts

When a field or table that is added by a partner or customer in a higher layer than SYS, for example VAR, is subsequently added by Microsoft in the SYS layer with the same, you see a conflict during the synchronization process and consequently an error
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Friday, July 28, 2006 9:26 AM

isTypeTime

Checking if a certain data field is of the ”time” data type is not as obvious as you may think. Your first few attempts will most likely just tell you that the type of your field is Integer. Here’s a job with a small snippet of code showing you how to
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