Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 [Paperback]

Arthur Greef (Author), Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 9, 2006

Take a detailed look at the internal architecture of Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 with this comprehensive reference for developers and IT implementers. Architects from the Microsoft Dynamics AX team take you deep inside the application frameworks and the development environment. You’ll get expert insights to help you master the intricacies of planning, programming, and maintaining adaptable enterprise resource planning solutions.

Discover how to:

• Use MorphX designers and development tools
• Work with the X++ programming language
• Build managed solutions that enable enterprise application integration
• Customize tables, classes, forms, and reports
• Develop and customize role-based, Web-enabled application portals
• Implement applications that concurrently support multiple users, languages, and locations
• Query application metadata using reflection APIs
• Design and implement application logic that optimizes database performancePlus—Get code samples on the Web

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Key Book Benefits:

- Delivers the only in-depth development reference for Microsoft Dynamics AX, whose future success relies on a large and skilled developer community
- Provides need-to-know information for consultants and developers
- Features insights from the product team to help speed Microsoft Dynamics AX development, customization, and performance tasks

About the Author

Arthur Greef is a software architect on the Microsoft Dynamics AX team who's been with Microsoft Corporation for more than 15 years.

Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan is a software architect on the Microsoft Dynamics AX team. He is a popular speaker at technical conferences and other industry events.

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (August 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735622574
• ISBN-13: 978-0735622579
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,144,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have reference for anyone working with Dynamics AX, October 3, 2006

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Dianne Siebold (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 (Paperback)

I found this book helpful when trying to figure out how to do a variety of development tasks such as debugging, reverse engineering, compiling, etc. The section on the development tools was helpful because it provided a guide on what's available for developers. It's easy to understand and provides some good background information on a lot of the tools and techniques. Very useful for either developers or consultants.

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners - poor reference work with little detail, March 26, 2009

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Jay (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 (Paperback)

As goes for the standard Microsoft training manuals, this book won't get you the knowledge you need to face real-life scenarios. As a seasoned Ax developer this book had little value to add, except for some new features introduced in Ax 4.0 I wasn't aware of at the time. However, it scratches the surface but fails to deliver the in-depth details the title suggests.

Overall, good book for starters, but needs a second and third volume to finish what it started. Don't recommend it for experienced developers, unless you want it to look good on your book shelf (I admit).

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Reference Book Written by the Developers, May 10, 2007

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 (Paperback)

Microsoft Dynamics AX is another of the very high end development system that Microsoft has been developing to make the implementation of sophisticated applications relatively easy. Specifically Dynamics AX (which has gone by several names during it's development cycle) is oriented to enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications developers. It might be viewed as a library of subroutines that perform the fundamental actions needed by an ERP system. It is then up to the developer to simply connect these subroutines together in order to produce application.

The end result can be viewed as a very high level language that contains many functions written to perform the actual work. As with any other computer language, it is something non-trivial that has to be learned. And this book is basically a tutorial on the language. It probably is something that could be learned as a language by itself, but experience in other languages, particularily C++ and SQL will ease the learning task. Obviously the reader should have some experience in ERP.

This book is written by members of the development team. It is complete and thorough, but it is a book on the Dynamics AX system, not on ERP.