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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook

By : Mindaugas Pocius
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook

By: Mindaugas Pocius

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics AX is a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for mid-size and large organizations. Dynamics AX implementations are used worldwide by thousands of customers. With the new version - Dynamics AX 2012 - 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. Written by one of the leading experts in Microsoft Dynamics AX, 'Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook' is packed with over 80 task-based and immediately reusable recipes that will help you manage your company's or customer'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. The recipes 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 practical recipes will also 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 and managing your data and functions will become easier.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Using Dynamics AX Trace Parser


Dynamics AX has a feature that allows generating trace files of the client and server activity. It collects lots of useful information, such as user sessions, call trees, SQL statements, execution durations, and much more. Such trace files can be analyzed with a tool called Dynamics AX Trace Parser, which displays all the trace information within the informative graphical user interface and allows developers to see what is happening behind the scenes and make appropriate decisions.

In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to use Dynamics AX Trace Parser. We will create and run a simple class containing a simple SQL statement while running AX tracing. Then, we will analyze the generated trace using Trace Parser.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps in order to complete this recipe:

  1. 1. In the AOT, create a new class with the following code:

    class CustTransTracing
    {
    }
    public static void main(Args _args)
    {
    CustTrans custTrans;
    select count(RecId) from custTrans...