Saturday, March 17, 2012

ParseXPOs

Many people may be familiar with the CombineXPOs.exe utility for Dynamics AX that mfp has shared on his blog. This utility is useful to take many individual xpo files and create a single large xpo file that can be imported into Microsoft Dynamics AX either from the command line or manually in the client. I recently had a scenario where I wanted to do the opposite, export a large project from Dynamics AX and then parse the project into individual XPO's. This was useful to compare all of the objects installed in a layer in multiple enviroments. Hit the jump for the source code and binaries.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Migrating from MorphX version control to TFS version control - Part 2

In Part 1 of this article I described a method to migrate MorphX version control data into TFS version control using the TF.exe command line utility and an x++ job. In Part 2 I will touch on some of the difficulties I faced and give a little more detail on how I overcame them.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Migrating from MorphX version control to TFS version control - Part 1

There are quite a few good topics on the web about how to use TFS for source control in Dynamics AX but one thing I couldn't find was anyone with a way to migrate from MorphX version control to TFS version control.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog about Dynamics AX.

I've spent the last 5 years working for a vendor for Microsoft helping build the public sector solution for Dynamics AX. I worked on versions of AX before 2009, on the entire release for 2012, and also on the start of the next yet to be released version of AX.

Recently I started working as the Sr. Dynamics AX developer for a private company that uses Dynamics AX internally.

Most of my prior experience working on AX was admittedly in the financials module but in my new job I will be getting very familiar with the inventory module. I'm also very interested in architecture and the build environment so some of my initial posts will be in the area of setting up a development environment for a private company.

I hope you enjoy my posts and that I'm able to offer some of my unique insights to the online discussion of Dynamics AX.