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Version control in MorphX

mfp — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:40:58 GMT

This screencast is a preview of the version control system integration options in the next release of MorphX - the IDE of Dynamics AX.

It shows a side-by-side comparison of the integration options with Team Foundation Server, Visual Source Safe, and MorphX VCS.

The latter is a simple, yet powerful alternative without any additional infrastructure requirements. The last half of the screencast gives a demonstration of MorphX VCS.

MorphX Best Practices in Dynamics AX

mfp — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:53:55 GMT

This screencasts show you how to use the X++ Best Practices inside Dynamics AX to build solid business applications.

It also shows you how you can create your own best practice rules.

Application Fundamentals in Dynamics AX

mfp — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:56:13 GMT

The talk covers the most basic frameworks you must know about to be an effective X++ developer:

Dialog
Operation Progress
Usage Data
Runbase
Batch

Exception handling in X++

mfp — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:33:24 GMT

The screencast shows how exceptions handling works in X++ in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0, and how exceptions are integrated with the Infolog.

Dynamics AX 4.0 - Smart customizations

mfp — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:28:56 GMT

This 30 minute talk explains how you can customize the business logic in Dynamics AX 4.0, in a way that makes future code upgrades easier.

The talk also covers the layer technology of Dynamics AX, and will create a small customization using an approach with minimal overlayering, implement unit test cases for the customization - and finally do a code upgrade of the customization.

For more information see "Chapter 1 - Architectural Overview" and "Part 2 - Developing with Dynamics AX 4.0" in "Inside Dynamics AX 4.0".

Dynamics AX 4.0 - 3-tier Development

mfp — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:05:49 GMT

This 20 minute talk briefly explains the 3-tier architecture of Dynamics AX 4.0, before drilling deep into optimizations and considerations required to design well performing 3-tier solutions in X++.

The talk will show case X++ code samples, and use of the client/server trace to measure their chattyness.

For more information see Chapter 1 - Architectural Overview and Chapter 17 - Performance in "Inside Dynamics AX 4.0".

Dynamics AX 4.0 - Unit testing

mfp — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:06:17 GMT

This 20 minute talk introduces you to the Unit Test Framework in Dynamics AX 4.0.

The talk is split in two:

The basic features of the framework, and what they can do for you.
A demo of the framework using a Test Driven Development approach.

For more information on the Unit Test framework see David Pokluda's blog.