Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Programming: Getting Started eBook Download

Thoroughly covers the new features in AX 2009 and focuses on the most common tasks and issues Aimed at developers on the Microsoft platform with little or no previous knowledge of AX development

In Detail

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that comes with its own development environment and a programming language called X++. It also helps you work with the MorphX application.

The author's experience of developing solutions with Dynamics AX enables him to share insights in an effective, clear, and friendly way.

By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of the inner workings of Microsoft Dynamics AX - making your development simpler and faster, and your applications fast, reliable, and robust.

What you will learn from this book

Get to grips with the AX Development environment Understand the basics of the X++ language Reduce the time spent on coding by storing and relating data Create Reporting Services reports in Visual Studio using the new Reporting Service extensions Optimize data retrieval to ensure each transfer contains only the data necessary for the further operations Manipulate data in X++ Effectively handle transaction scope by using different operators Develop a .Net class in Visual Studio and then use it in AX Build rich web portals with Enterprise Portal and ASP.NET Optimize application performance and extensibility Create services and expose them to external applications Build a new module in AX

Approach

This book takes you through the important topics of Microsoft Dynamics AX with clear explanations and practical example code.

Great book for the functional AX folks who wants to step into AX development
This is a great book for functional AX folks who wants to step into AX development but it is a little short on the developers who wants to learn about AX development.














New to Dynamics AX and want to learn fast?




AxCider's review
See the book description on the publisher's site: "Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Programming: Getting Started"






When I've received the book, I first thought about beginning of my experience with Ax: in 2003 I worked with BAAN and planned to become a developer for Ax 3.





I think the main two topics to learn for every Ax developer are:


Dynamics Ax development platform

X++ code that implements business logic

Historically, platform was the more clear area docs, but has some dark corners, but business logic was less documented and the knowledge transferred mostly from the code itself, more experienced colleagues, and online communities.


So I tried to search for following topics:


Links to external information sources such as MSDN, Partner Source, internet communities

Data access (Ax have a very specific SQL implementation)

Forms layout

Business logic patterns

Tools and techniques to extract information from X++ code

BTW one of the book reviewers, Harish Mohanbabu, is known by his blog and free Ax tools.


First, the book contains list of online resources links related to Ax, such as blogs, axaptapedia, official sites, so on.


Database manipulation is described in several chapters, the description is easy to understand, full of example screenshots and can be useful for new developers, but I missed description of union joins (which is new to Ax2009 and I haven't seen much usage in the existing X++ code)


Forms-related information is shown mostly by example; you should refer to developer's guide for more detail.





There are some chapters related to most frequently used business modules, such as inventory, ledger and accounts receivable/payable, each starting with small entity-relationship diagram of basic tables with examples of using Ledger posting framework, adding new dimension, etc..


The topic about tools contains example of usage of cross reference with screenshots, but profiler and trace parser have not been mentioned.


So these were topics that I was interested in due to I remember I had problems with, when I started to learn Ax.


In addition there is lots of information related to:


Other platform areas (such as X++ basics, AOT nodes, architecture, File export and import), which have not caused learning problems for me but maybe can cause to other novice developers.

Parts of platform I have not used (Application Integration Framework , Enterprise Portal, Webservices) - so I cannot say anything about them

The book contains an example of car rental module (with full sources in xpo's).


I definitely recommend the book for novice developers as a good addition to manuals that go with the product and msdn.





If you are new to AX development - start here!
This is an excellent book for getting started with AX.

The vital information that is missing is the primary reason I cannot give this book 5 stars.

Finally, the technical accuracy of the book is high - it rarely state something that is wrong, but often omits what I believe is critical information.

I'm giving this book a 4 out of 5 star rating, because it does deliver what it promises: A quick start on developing in AX without providing too much background information.


Living up to the title; It will get you started with AX 2009 development
I would have loved having this book when I started developing in Microsoft Dynamics AX.

I wouldn't recommend the book as your only source of information on AX development though.

I miss more in-depth coverage of the different topics and I miss a chapter about workflow in Dynamics AX.

Computer science students, get this computer ebook by download itMicrosoft Dynamics AX 2009 Programming: Getting Started from Rapidshare/Megaupload/Hotfile for free.