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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook

By : Mindaugas Pocius
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook

By: Mindaugas Pocius

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for mid-size and larger organizations. Dynamics AX implementations are used worldwide by thousands of customers. With the new version - Dynamics AX 2009 - the system is due to expand even more rapidly. Every new implementation requires some level of customization, and all organizations want this to be done to the highest standards using proven approaches. This step-by-step guide will help you manage your company's ERP information and operations efficiently, and solve your business process problems in an effective and quick way. This book focuses on commonly used custom modifications in major Dynamics AX modules. This book contains commonly used bits of code which were real-world tested in at least one successful Dynamics AX implementation. Many of the recipes were deployed in many implementations and even across several versions of Dynamics AX. The examples in this book cover various areas of Dynamics AX to help developers not only learn about programming, but also about the functional side of Dynamics AX. The book should help developers who already know the basics of Dynamics AX programming to step up to the next level. The recipes allow you to look at the development from the perspective of business processes. You will learn to enhance your user interface using various Dynamics AX UI elements. Managing your data and functions will become easier. You will also get numerous development tips and tricks from a Dynamics AX development expert.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Modifying application version


Dynamics AX identifies its releases with two version numbers—kernel version and application version. For example, version number 5.0.593.0 means Dynamics AX 2009 RTM and 5.0.1000.52 is Dynamics AX 2009 Service Pack 1. Dynamics AX hotfix rollups are presented in a similar way by only updating the last version number digits. Version numbers an be viewed in the About Microsoft Dynamics AX dialog, which can be accessed from the Help menu.

Besides standard versioning, Dynamics AX allows adding additional versions for solution developers to control their releases. In this recipe, we will learn how to do that. We will modify standard application objects to incorporate our changes.

Getting ready

Solution versions can be changed only in SL1, SL2, SL3, BUS (and BUP) layers. SL1-SL3 layers are used for certified solutions and BUS—for business partner solutions. To proceed further, we will need the BUS layer code in order to log in to the BUS and BUP layers of the application...