Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 (Paperback)

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Product Description

Dive deep in to the architectural details of Microsoft Dynamics AX to make relationships clear and development tasks easier. The first part of the book is aimed at consultants and developers who are new to Microsoft Dynamics AX but have backgrounds in business application development using traditional languages, frameworks, and tools. It describes the architecture and development environment and explains key application frameworks that developers need for their customization, extension, and integration projects. The second part of the book is a reference guide for developers who work with Microsoft Dynamics AX deployments, with information on developing new functionality and supporting users. It covers more complex development concepts such as advanced forms and reports, reflection over the application metadata, performance, upgrades, migration, and setup. This is the first book written by the Microsoft product group architects and the first to take developers deep inside Microsoft Dynamics AX.

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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

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Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (August 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735622574
• ISBN-13: 978-0735622579
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 7.4 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.com Sales Rank: #503,410 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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

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

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.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

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

By	Jay (USA) - See all my reviews

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).