Category: Programming

  • Dynamics Ax: X++ what’s new

    Hi All! As you’ve probably already heard the new major release of Dynamics Ax is out and it’s called Microsoft Dynamics Ax! I have been to the Ax7 technical preview conference so I’ve already prepared some content for you and now that the release is official I can share it all. Dynamics Ax comes along with…

  • MS SQL Server index maintence

    Hi, As we all know index maintenance is important especially on large Dynamics Ax databases, but often I see installations where there are little or no maintenance plans or all kinds of exotic scripts. Therefor I want to show you guys the SQL Server Maintenance Solution by Ola Hallengren, this does not only contain stored procedures for…

  • Dynamics Ax Management Shell powershell tips

    Hi all, When Dynamics Ax 2012 came out it was shipped with 2 tools AxUtil.exe and the Management shell. In my experience most of the Dynamics Ax developers are already familiar with AxUtil.exe but don’t have much experience in powershell yet. Therefor I decided to write some examples to get you guys going. If you…

  • Dynamics Ax custom WCF service with paging support

    Hi all, Lately I’ve been busy developing WCF services to communicate with .NET web applications. All of these web services are custom-made and are using .NET data contracts so that every application uses the same contracts. Due to the high amount of data and performance we had to implement some kind of paging. I had…

  • Dynamics Ax Implementing an InventDim form control

    Hi All, Yesterday I was struggling a bit with an InventDim form control on a custom-made form. The problem was that the product dimension look ups were returning none or too much results like example 1. While the correct result should look like example 2. The problem was that I’ve named the item field ServiceItemId instead of ItemId. This…

  • Dynamics Ax composite queries

    Hi all, Currently I’m working on a new Dynamics Ax 2012 project and for that I’m developing a lot of list pages and forms. For these I had to make multiple menu items that open a list page with different filters, you can do this by setting the menu item query property or calling a class which calls the form with…

  • MS SQL Server performance with Dynamics Ax

    Hi, Lately I’m working on some projects who experience a bad performance in Dynamics Ax. This can have multiple causes but one of the most important is maintaining the SQL Server. In my humble opinion every Dynamics Ax developer should have a basic knowledge on how SQL Server works and is maintained because it is…

  • Dynamics Ax RunBase overriding dialog with a Form

    Hi, Some time ago I’ve found out that you can implement a form into a RunBase dialog, this has the advantage that you can easily use a grid control, etc… or use modified field methods without using controlMethodOverload() method. You can do this by overriding the dialog method and adding the following code. You can…

  • Dynamics Ax printing logo’s from batch

    Hi, Edit Microsoft has released a fix for this problem contact support for this As all of you know the Image class in Dynamics Ax 4.0 and 2009 can only run on client. This poses a problem when you want to print for example invoices with your company logo on it. Having this found out…

  • Dynamics Ax Reports with Calibri font

    Hi, A customer of mine asked me to change the font of some reports to Calibri. It all went well until we saved a report as PDF, there was way too much spacing between characters. After some days of investigating and contact with Microsoft I’ve found out that it worked on a Windows Server 2008…