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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook

By : Mindaugas Pocius
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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.

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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook
Mindaugas Pocius
Dec, 2009 | 352 pages
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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Development Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Processing Data
Processing Data
Introduction
Creating a new number sequence
Renaming the primary key
Merging two records
Adding document handling notes
Using a normal table as temporary table
Copying a record
Building a query object
Using a macro in a SQL statement
Executing a direct SQL statement
Enhancing the data consistency check
Exporting to an XML file
Importing from an XML file
Creating a comma-separated value file
Reading a comma-separated value file
Deleting all company transactional data
2
Working with Forms
Working with Forms
Introduction
Creating Dialogs
Handling dialog events
Creating dynamic menu buttons
Building dynamic form
Adding form splitters
Creating modal forms
Changing common form appearance
Storing last form values
Using tree controls
Building checklists
Adding a "Go to the Main Table Form" link
Modifying the User setup form
Modifying application version
3
Working with Data in Forms
Working with Data in Forms
Introduction
Handling number sequences
Creating custom filters
Creating custom instant search filters
Building selected/available lists
Preloading images
Creating wizards
Creating default data wizards
Processing multiple records
Coloring records
Adding images to records
4
Building Lookups
Building Lookups
Introduction
Creating an automatic lookup
Creating a lookup dynamically
Using a form for lookup building
Building a tree lookup
Displaying a list of custom options
Another way of displaying custom options
Building a lookup based on record description
Browsing for folders
Selecting a file
Picking a color
Choosing a font
5
Processing Business Tasks
Processing Business Tasks
Introduction
Creating new general journals
Posting general journals
Processing project journals
Creating and posting ledger vouchers
Changing automatic transaction text
Creating purchase orders
Posting purchase orders
Creating sales orders
Posting sales orders
Creating company-specific document layout
Creating electronic payment format
Building a "Display dimensions" dialog
6
Integration with Microsoft Office
Integration with Microsoft Office
Introduction
Creating Excel files
Reading Excel files
Creating Word documents from templates
Creating configuration documents using Word
Exporting data to Microsoft Project
Sending email using Outlook
Index
Index

Preloading images

Some of the Dynamics AX controls like trees or lists in most cases, to represent the data in a richer way, have small icon images in front of the text. Icons could represent a type, status, availability, or any other property of the current item in the control.

Images are binary data and their processing might be time consuming. The Dynamics AX application provides a way of handling images to increase application performance. Normally, on those forms with lists or trees all required images are preloaded during form initialization. This reduces image loading time when the image is actually displayed to the user.

For this purpose, Dynamics AX contains a set of ImageListAppl derivative classes, which holds a specific set of images required in specific circumstances. For example, the ImageListAppl_Proj class in the Project module preloads project-related images representing project and transaction types during project tree initialization. So virtually no time is consumed for...

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