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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Services

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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Services

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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Services
Mar, 2014 | 264 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Services
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Services
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services
Getting Started with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services
Introducing services and SOA
Architectural overview
New and enhanced features
AIF change tracking
Custom services
The SysOperation framework
Types of services
Summary
2
Service Architecture and Deployment
Service Architecture and Deployment
Introducing WCF
Service deployment
Bindings
Adapters
Service generation - under the hood
The power of CIL
Summary
3
AIF Document Services
AIF Document Services
Introducing document services
Key components
Creating a document service
Updating an existing document service
Deploying a document service
Consuming a document service
Asynchronous communication
The send service framework
Batch processing
Summary
4
Custom Services
Custom Services
Key components
Creating custom services
Deploying services
The rental service
Consuming services
Summary
5
The SysOperation Framework
The SysOperation Framework
SysOperation versus RunBaseBatch
Creating a SysOperation service
Running a SysOperation service
Custom controllers
Custom UI Builders
Multithreading
Summary
6
Web Services
Web Services
Installing Visual Studio tools
Visual Studio development
X++ development
Summary
7
System Services
System Services
Introducing system services
The metadata service
The query service
The user session service
The OData query service
Summary
8
High Availability
High Availability
Introducing high availability
Putting high availability into practice
Summary
9
Tracing and Debugging
Tracing and Debugging
Installing development tools
Using the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 debugger
Using the Visual Studio debugger
Using the Tracing cockpit
Using the integration port logging mode
Using WCF message logging and tracing
Summary
Installing the Demo Application
Installing the Demo Application
Prerequisites
Dynamics AX 2012 models
Dynamics AX XPO file
Code snippets
Initializing number sequences
Visual Studio code
Sample data
Index
Index

X++ development

The Visual Studio project and its output have been added to the AOT, so the first stage of development is now complete. You can leave Visual Studio and switch to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. The project has been added to the Visual Studio Projects node in the AOT. As we have used C#, the project will be in the C Sharp Projects node.

Look for the DynamicsAxServices.WebServices.ZipCode project and expand some of the nodes to inspect it. It should appear as shown in the following screenshot:

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, this is divided into the following two main components:

  • The Project Content node contains the actual C# project source such as properties of the project, the service references, an app.config file, and C# source files

  • The Project Output node contains the assemblies that will be deployed, taking into account the deployment options

In order to use the assemblies that have been created and stored in the AOT, we'll have to deploy them. Let's look at the...

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