2011 - The Big Bang ERP Year for Microsoft

I knew this was coming, 2011 is going to be the important in terms of Microsoft product releases. They are doing it in a big bang way by releasing :

* Dynamics AX 2011 in 3rd quarter of 2011 (CTP release in February build, that's going to be interesting for the early birds)
* Dynamics GP 2010 R2 in first half of 2011
* Dynamics SL 2011 2nd quarter of 2011
* Dynamics NAV 7 somewhere end of 2011 or early 2012

"Officials said at NRF that Dynamics AX 6 will be based on a “unique model-driven, layered architecture,” requiring less coding and easier maintenance and upgradability. The product will be compatible with SQL Server 2008R2, Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 from the get-go"


Read more here
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/2011-to-be-a-big-year-for-microsoft-in-erp/8396?tag=nl.e550
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/jan11/1-10MSFTDynamicsAX6PR.mspx

Integrating/Invoking Google Maps on Dynamics AX Customer Address Form

Last week, over the lunch time, I was chatting with some of my colleagues regarding Dynamics AX and Map Integration, Till then, I was not aware of the fact that in Dynamics AX 2009 Address form we already have a "Map" button which invokes the Bing maps as shown here

But, Bing was not able to provide us the proper location for some addresses which Google Maps could provide - Food for thought for the Bing devs/SDE's.

I was curious to see the Code Behind the "Map" button, which led me to the SmmUtility Class > mapIt method.

Then, next step was to find out how to invoke Google Maps by passing query string in the url, My best friend Google never lets me down :-) and I hit upon this wonderful site which shows how to pass different query string parameters in the url http://www.querystring.org/google-maps/google-maps-query-string-parameters

From there on it was pretty straightforward, following code snippet helped me to show up the google maps

Thatz it! Pretty easy, rite? :-).

Register for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2011 Technical Conference

This is a 3-day event about the upcoming release of Dynamics AX 2011 held @ Redmond, USA.  Some of the highlights of this event are:

 

• · Developers building and implementing solutions on Microsoft Dynamics AX. Understand how you can be more productive and provide innovative vertical solutions. Understand the philosophy behind the model-driven design and the service-based architecture built on the foundation provided by the Microsoft .NET Framework.

• · Technical Implementation Consultants can learn about the simplification of the deployment architecture, and integration with the Microsoft platform components like Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and Microsoft Office 2010.

• · Get hands-on experience with the upcoming release of Microsoft Dynamics AX.

• · Talk directly to the team building the product.

• · Network and learn from other partners and customers to plan your upgrade.

• · Get a pre-release version to continue your learning and development when you get back to the office.

More info, can be found on this link
http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/DynamicsAXtechnicalconference2011/default.html

 

Happy DAX'ing 

 

 

 

 

 

Dynamics AX 6 New X++ Editor

Vincent talks here about the new X++ Editor in Dynamics AX 6 which give the similar experience of working in Visual Studio.

Below is a 2 part blog link from Vincent's blog. Nice work!

http://blogs.msdn.com/vnicolas/archive/2009/10.aspx


http://blogs.msdn.com/vnicolas/archive/2009/10/11/dynamics-ax6-the-new-x-editor.aspx

Dynamics AX 6.0 Deployment Engine

Here's a great 4-part series post by mfp regarding the deployment process with the upcoming release of Dynamics AX 2011 aka Dynamics AX 6.0.

Part 1 - Models and deploying models
http://blogs.msdn.com/mfp/archive/2009/09/23/introducing-ax-models-part-1.aspx

Part 2 - Manifest and signing
http://blogs.msdn.com/mfp/archive/2009/09/29/introducing-ax-models-part-2.aspx

Part 3 - Multiple models per layer
http://blogs.msdn.com/mfp/archive/2009/10/08/introducing-ax-models-part-3.aspx

Part 4 - Working with models inside MorphX
http://blogs.msdn.com/mfp/archive/2009/11/25/ax-models-part-4-working-with-models-inside-morphx.aspx

Thanks to mfp for putting up this wonderful post.