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Recently we have started a Partner Community Blog for Austrian Dynamics Partners. Step on and check the latest information for Dynamics AX, ...

Microsoft has released a Backup Assistant Tool to facilitate the protection of Dynamics AX 2009 data and files with System Center Data Prote...

One of the new features in Windows 7 is that it contains a new version of Windows Virtual PC which can be used to publish applications from ...

Hi all, after a long time, I wanted to share with you that a whitepaper written by me has been published on MSDN. It's about consuming w...

I've started working for Microsoft in Vienna on October 15th, so see you at some Dynamics events !

The long awaited Dynamics AX 2009 has been released. The RTM (Ready-to-Manufacturing) setup can be downloaded from Partnersource: https://mb...

Today I found an exciting new feature in Dynamics AX 2009: cross company support in forms, reports, queries and X++. Yes, and it really is w...

The last days I could read a new book about Dynamics AX: Quality assurance for Dynamics AX-Based ERP Solutions The target audience is projec...

You can download a couple of Docs and Powerpoint files about what's new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 from Partnersource: https://mbs.mi...

The great book "Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0" is available as a free download now. You can go to: http://download.microsoft.co...

You can download the guidlines for the user interface in Dynamics AX 2009 from Microsoft: >http://www.microsoft.com/... With that, you wi...

If you want to open the Internet Explorer with a certain web page directly from X++ code, you can use the following statement: infoLog.urlLo...

In Dynamics AX, you can specify your client config to be usable if you have different windows languages (this means that your AX client is n...

After receiving some comments to my previous post (well, in fact it was my intention to get some feedback on it how to do that properly), he...

When you create new fields in a table and then go into a form where this table is used, you will not see the new fields in the forms datasou...

If you want to copy just one line from a Dynamics AX grid to Excel and you just click on the line marker of the grid to select the line, pre...

A very merry christmas to all my readers and a happy and successful New Year!

The other day I was attending a lesson concerning the new Dynamics AX trace parser tool. With that tool (you can download it from Partnersou...

As a follow up to my previous post about catching keystrokes in Dynamics AX, I received some comments telling me I should use the task() met...

When you do performance tests in Dynamics AX, you often want to clear the SQL cache so you can be sure that all data must be re-read from th...

I've now checked this function and I have to say that it still doesn't work. If you change the label for a query range, AX 5.0 will ...

The last days I've been struggling to find a way to catch keystrokes in a form to create keyboard shortcuts for the users. Well, I didn...

Sometimes when you are tracking performance (or other) problems, you may want to activate the long running query tracing for all users. Here...

In a query range (open AOT, Queries, any query, any range field), you can specify the property "Label". So you could display anoth...

In some forms it may be convenient that the grid filter (new in Ax 4.0) is activated automatically. If you want to get that behaviour, just ...

First of all, my apologies for not having written anything in the last weeks. But I'm really busy with my project at the moment.... But ...

With some days delay, I can now tell you that I have received the prestigious Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. There was a ...

One change in the AX user interface I just found out: if a user has no access to a button, the button is not displayed anymore in the form (...

I want to wish everybody Happy Easter and my present for you from the easter bunny is: Tabax is now working with Dynamics AX 4.0. Max Belugi...

Rob asked me in a comment to a previous post ( Link ): "Wouldn't the session manager take care of directing a request to a certain ...

I am missing the functionality to send messages to online users that existed in Axapta 3.0 and is now gone. Well, I thought you could use th...

Googling around for more info on Dynamics AX 5.0, I stumbled over this interesting link: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=325 which tell...

I've just read on the UK partner website that AX 4.1 will be renamed to AX 5.0. The scheduled release date is Q1/2008 (well it says 2008...

The global search is a feature in Dynamics Ax 4.0 which allows you to search for a string in several tables (like a full text search). You s...

In Ax 4.0 SP1, the new "session manager" for AOS clustering was introduced (so you do not need NLB anymore). This, however, means ...

I 've read somewhere that it might be possible in Dynamics AX 4.0 SP1, using the new "Session Manager" for AOS, the following ...

Anders Tind Sørensen has sent me the xpo for the complexity analysis add-in to the best practice checks and you can download it here: http:/...

I want to wish all of my readers a happy and brilliant NEW YEAR!

One of the very good things about Dynamics AX 4.0: there is no axdat.udb file anymore! All information about users online etc... is kept in ...

I wish all of my readers and friends a very merry and wicked Christmas !!!!

I had the following problem: our partner made a class which sends emails to users via SMTP using the SysMailer class. It works well using a ...

If you want to trace your SQL statements in DAX 4.0 (e.g. long running queries), you have to enable the SQL trace flags in the user options....

2 weeks ago, I got a new laptop and started working on it with Dynamics AX 4.0. Unfortunately, the good old shortcut for "Go to main ta...

I just made an update of the design of the blog. I always wanted to have the actual "text" part bigger which it is now. I hope you...

You may have read that in other blogs: Microsoft has released the SP1 for Dynamics AX 4.0 today. You can download it from Partnersource (if ...

In Dynamics Ax 4.0, each user can have a Favorites pane. Normally, you can add a menu item to the Favorites pane by dragging and dropping it...

The upload to Axaptapedia works now, so you can download the last project now at http://www.axaptapedia.com/images/9/99/AOT_SearchExtended.z...

One of the things that happen to you when you take an active part in a community is that you actually build up a community. This way, I get ...

Today I stumbled over an interesting PDF. It is called "Measuring Complexity In X++ Code" and written by Anders Tind Sørensen. It ...

This is kinda follow up to one of my previous posts where I showed a link to Max Belugin's conclusion about semicolons in classes. (Orig...

My friend Max Belugin has implemented another great tool for Axapta: Tabax With Tabax, you have all your open Axapta windows displayed at ta...

Hi! I'm back on track and the first thing I want to share after my vacation is a rather undocumented X++ statement: BREAKPOINT In any X+...

I'll be on vacation the next 3 weeks. I wish everybody a pleasant time using Axapta.

I re-installed Dynamics AX 4.0 from the MSDN ISO on a new server and it is working. The only thing I'm missing now is a demo company (th...

The ISO from MSDN seems to be okay now. But somehow I cannot get Ax to start. I'll reinstall my VirtualPC or try it on a different serve...

I just saw that the ISO is available again. I'll try to download and install it and will keep you informed if it's working now...

It's now confirmed by me: the Ax 4.0 ISO you can download from MSDN is corrupt. I'll keep you informed when a new version is release...

Dynamics Ax 4.0 can be downloaded from MSDN if you have an MSDN subscription (my subscription is MSDN general). There is a post in a Microso...

Yesterday the blog was not available for some hours. There must have been some error during the last publishment of the blog so it wasn...

I figured out how to get the MSN RSS feeds, so here is an updated list of the feeds (new ones are in red ): feed://feeds.feedburner.com/axap...

I am trying to do some emailing out of Axapta at the moment and I found an old post in the development-axapta mailing list that provides a w...

Well, first of all: of course I forgot my own RSS feed in the list! Gosh! So here it is of course: feed://feeds.feedburner.com/axaptafreak A...

You can download the new implementation guide here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?... It seems like it's the same as t...

Here is a list of some Axapta RSS feeds: feed://blogs.msdn.com/palle_agermark/rss.xml feed://blogs.msdn.com/tomb/rss.xml feed://blogs.msdn.c...

Hi! A long time ago, I wanted to be able to have the old XAL way of exporting elements in Axapta: that every element gets its own file. Ther...

Today I saw that Microsoft starts putting more AX information into MSDN. Here are some links where you can get the newest articles: Using Mi...

Ever wondered where all the documents from the "good old Axapta Technet" have gone? Well, just some days before Microsoft turned t...

I have now made a second test run using the same Oracle DB once for the standard 3.0 SP3 kernel and once for the Kernel Rollup 2. The tests ...

I made a comparison of the performance using an Oracle 9i database. The test set is the same as in my comparison between Oracle and SQL 2005...

Hi all! Last month was the month with the most user visits on my blog so far: almost 1400 visits in May 2006. There are now more than 10.000...

The Kernel Rollup 2 has been released. Here are links to the fix list and the readme: KR2_Fixlist.htm (Edit: I removed the link to the readm...

We had the following problem: we are using a lot of config ids for items. Now, when you click on the lookup button of a config id field in a...

When you have more than 2 AOS servers in your Axapta setup, you might experience the following problem: the online user form will only tell ...

2 things about the audit trail: Palle Agermark has posted an interesting article about the audit trail and when records will be created depe...

A Microsoft bloke has posted a whitepaper on his blog which tells us which hardware/software configurations will be supported by Dynamics Ax...

A Microsoft bloke has posted this document about different hardware configurations for Dynamics Ax 4.0 in his blog. Here is the link: http:/...

If you have a report that only displays ***** instead of numbers, you have one easy way of showing the correct numbers without any modificat...

There is a new Layman Specification available for Dynamics Ax 4.0 available. Some Microsoft bloke has put it on his blog, so here is a link ...

I have conducted some more tests and the results stay the same: SQL 2005 is about 14-20% slower than Oracle9i. But I know that Microsoft is ...

I finished the first performance tests and here are the results. The configuration is as follows: Oracle: 9.2.0.4, used Axapta client is 195...

Today I saw that my blog is a featured Microsoft community at the moment. Wow. I just also wanted to tell you what I am doing right now: cur...

If you want to set a date field to an empty date or need to compare if a date field is empty, you can use the datenull () function. It is a ...

Here are the links to the fixlists of the Service Pack 5 (SP5) for Axapta 3.0. And: Please, Microsoft, give European customers access to Cus...

There is a standard error in the online user form that is occurring with Oracle only. Please check the "Info" class and there the ...

Today I found a very interesting entry in Max Belugin's blog. It explains why sometimes you have to put a semicolon in a method between ...

No time to hesitate anymore: the Axapta 4.0 Layman's specification can be downloaded from numerous sites already, so here it is, too: th...

Due to a wrong file, you may get a compilation error with the kernel rollup. The file "AXSYSDE-AT.KTD", located in the Bin directo...

The kernel rollup 1 adds a new field to the table COMMON and therefore, all Axapta tables get that new field. It is called RECVERSION and ...

Finally, it has been done: Microsoft has released the so-called "Kernel Rollup 1" for Axapta 3.0. With that kernel rollup, Microso...

If you have lots of zipcodes in your Zipcode table, you will get the problem that when you click on the lookup button of your zipcode field ...

To one of the earlier posts, Bernard added a comment which I will put here, as it contains very good information about the topic: Microsoft ...

For your information: When you have a SQL cluster for failover and the actual failover happens, the AOS will lose the connection to the SQL ...

If you ever wondered where Axapta stores the breakpoints, here is the answer: breakpoints are stored in the registry under the key HKEY_CURR...

Although the time might be near that we do not see the AOS clusters as they are now anymore(4.0 is coming!), here are a few words about clus...

The SQL Server 2005 is already available for download. If you have an MSDN subscription, you will find all the versions there (Developer, En...

Just in case you didn't know already: the international release date of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is November 7th (2005). Here in Austri...

In the Axapta community, there is still a big confusion about the "index" and "index hint" statements used in connection...

Here is a powerpoint file where you can get some ideas of what will be new in Axapta 4.0, or Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0. Click on the link an...

Today, the Axapta Blog site which you are reading now has been recognized as Microsoft related community. From now on, it is listed here: ht...

Hi There were some rumours around the last days that Microsoft will change the name of it's ERP products and today I found the first inf...

SQL2005 is scheduled to release on November 5th 2005. Microsoft is already offering a number of information like Webcasts for that release. ...

Every record in Axapta will have one unique identifier: the RecId. The RecId will be unique per company and the system gets the next RecId n...

Hi You may have problems losing the users' form adjustments after the AOS has been restarted. Here is what I found out in an AOS cluster...

I was asking Microsoft if there will be a version of Axapta 3.0 that will work with SQL 2005. Here is what I got today as answer: "Righ...

Hi My sources tell me that Microsoft has released a document called "Axapta Hardware Guide For Environments Less Then 100 Users". ...

Have you ever got an error or info message in Axapta saying "Cannot post...." and wanted to know where that error is coming from? ...

When you upgrade your Axapta 3.0 SP1-3 to the latest Service Pack 4, make sure you import the Hotfix HF30SP4_011 first. If you do not insta...

If you want to know whether it's better to run Axapta on Windows 2003 or Windows 2000, here is what Microsoft found out: http://download...

Ever wondered why your COM connection was working while you were logged on to the PC and not working without being logged on? Here's a s...

Wanted to know how big your AOS latency really is? On many Axapta pages you can read that you should not test it with the "ping" c...

If you have a 3-tier AOS application that is running on several AOS in a cluster, sometimes developing can be a pain. Besides the old known ...

Welcome to the Axapta Blog Site. This blog will deal with things around Axapta as well as provide some sample programming projects.