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As you may have noticed my blog just got a facelift. All MSDN blogs have been updated, mine included.   I hope you like it    I do.

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Thanks to Lars Jankowski, Director of ERP2.mobile for hosting a free webinar on development of mobile applications for Dynamics ERP. Dont miss this one if you are a Dynamics AX Mobile Developer fan!

Webinar “ERP2mobile Hands-on using SDK delivered with source code” Thursday 3 June 13:00 – 14:30 CET. Sign up at: www.ERP2mobile.com

In this tech webinar we show how to develop mobile business applications for Dynamics using ERP2mobile inside Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

Experience how easy it is to develop high performing applications for Windows Mobile devices.

Learn how to:

- Quickly configure an application only using XML.

- Customize a basic application (SDK) for a customer.

- Add your own services and activities.

Get access to coding examples and SDKs with source code, latest downloads, tutorials, developer forums etc.

Sign up for the webinar at www.erp2mobile.com or www.ax2mobile.com.

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Dear All,

Today, I got this email in my inbox from one of my Linked In Friends, Vinay (Thanks to Vinay for bringing to my notice), as from last couple of months, I was not following http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/.  I was totally caught by surprise seeing the mail that my name was in the “Microsoft Dynamics Most Influential Top 100″ List. It’s a great honour to be in this list with some of the big names in Dynamics ERP. I’m glad to know that my blog and my participation in community discussions, forums have helped many people out there, who have voted me in top 100 list. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the people whom I have worked with and also my other fellow bloggers who kept me inspiring to keep posting,

A special thanks to Brandon George (http://dynamics-ax.blogspot.com/), who himself has a great blog and I have been a fan of him, has always inspired me and pushed me to keep on posting. (when I was lagging behind on my posts in early 2010 as I was super busy in my new project)

Concluding with A big thank you to all of you and I would love to be on the blog roll for years to come. I welcome any suggestions/recommendations to improve my blog.

Happy DAXing…

Your’s sincerely,
Dilip

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I always had this passion for building and using enterprise mobile applications and I thought I would take some time to highlight about a company who specialises in Mobile Development in AX

Here comes, ERP2Mobile.com (aka AX2Mobile.com) an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) whose focus is to develop enterprise mobility applications with Dynamics AX and other ERP.

Sometime back, I had this opportunity to attend this demo on Time and Materials Management Mobile solution which allows the end user to record project expenses from the mobile device and it integrates with Project module in Dynamics AX, The best part of the solution was the UX (User Experience) and the ease in which you can navigate through the Mobile Device UI, Unlike typical mobile applications, here the buttons on the device are built keeping in mind to capture the inputs in an easy manner.

The Platform

ERP2Mobile Development Platform is an environment for developing or customizing mobile business applications for Windows mobile devices that connects to web-services or ERP-systems like Dynamics AX or SAP

It uses Visual Studio for building ERP apps .

ERP2Mobile can also guide and can provide a migration path for partners using Dynamics Mobile

For more detailed inputs, you can visit http://www.erp2mobile.com/ or http://www.ax2mobile.com/

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Three recent deals on different continents continued the trend of Microsoft Dynamics service provider acquisitions as partners seek to broaden their reach both geographically and across industries.

In the US, Fine Solutions, a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics partner based in the Pacific Northwest, announced that it has acquired the Dynamics clients of Portland-based Dynamics and Sage consulting firm ISM. This acquisition will help accelerate the 18% growth that Fine Solutions has experienced in 2009, according to a statement.  Last year, the company opened an office in Portland.

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Microsoft is continually improving how we deliver and address our customer and partner support. Beginning May 26, 2010, partners who engage Microsoft technical support for Microsoft Dynamics products will experience improvements in how we handle support for our partners.
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My team has just published a whitepaper on how teams using Visual SourceSafe under Dynamics AX can migrate to Team Foundation Server.  The whitepaper is available for download here.

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My team has just published a whitepaper on how teams using Visual SourceSafe under Dynamics AX can migrate to Team Foundation Server.  The whitepaper is available for download here.

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I’ve been pushing off writing this review for a while now; primarily because the kind of book is very hard, if not impossible, to read cover to cover. This is a cookbook, it contains more than 60 recipes on how to accomplish various AX development tasks. I’ve decided to review the book based on the premise that it is a cookbook. To me a valuable cookbook contains recipes for desirable results (i.e. something I wish I could cook), and a valuable recipe enables me to reproduce the result (i.e. I’ll be able to cook). This book delivers exactly that.

Each recipe in the book contains an introduction, a “How to do it” and a “How it works” section. This makes the recipes easy to follow, and provides bits of necessary and interesting background information. The book only contains recipes on classic MorphX AX tasks – you will not find any recipes on SSRS reports or Enterprise Portal development – which is a shame, as ramping up knowledge in these new areas is just as important.

The majority of the book is listings of X++ source code. If you, like me, likes to read code this book is for you. The book reminds me of my early teenage years where I subscribed to a Danish magazine named Source, which contained various implementations of various programs. The code in this book is focused at getting the job done, the code is direct and to the point – it doesn’t contain comments or labels. For production quality code I would expect more, but this is a cookbook, and by keeping the code simple the book becomes easier to read.

I have a secondary reason for liking this book. My job in the Microsoft Dynamics AX team is to enable developers to be productive, in other words making it easy to accomplish AX development tasks. This books give me and my team a good perspective into some typical tasks, and how easy (or cumbersome) they are to accomplish. For this reason this book will get a position within reach on my bookshelf.

The book is written by Mindaugas Pocius and published by Packt Publishing.

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I’ve been pushing off writing this review for a while now; primarily because the kind of book is very hard, if not impossible, to read cover to cover. This is a cookbook, it contains more than 60 recipes on how to accomplish various AX development tasks. I’ve decided to review the book based on the premise that it is a cookbook. To me a valuable cookbook contains recipes for desirable results (i.e. something I wish I could cook), and a valuable recipe enables me to reproduce the result (i.e. I’ll be able to cook). This book delivers exactly that.

Each recipe in the book contains an introduction, a “How to do it” and a “How it works” section. This makes the recipes easy to follow, and provides bits of necessary and interesting background information. The book only contains recipes on classic MorphX AX tasks – you will not find any recipes on SSRS reports or Enterprise Portal development – which is a shame, as ramping up knowledge in these new areas is just as important.

The majority of the book is listings of X++ source code. If you, like me, likes to read code this book is for you. The book reminds me of my early teenage years where I subscribed to a Danish magazine named Source, which contained various implementations of various programs. The code in this book is focused at getting the job done, the code is direct and to the point – it doesn’t contain comments or labels. For production quality code I would expect more, but this is a cookbook, and by keeping the code simple the book becomes easier to read.

I have a secondary reason for liking this book. My job in the Microsoft Dynamics AX team is to enable developers to be productive, in other words making it easy to accomplish AX development tasks. This books give me and my team a good perspective into some typical tasks, and how easy (or cumbersome) they are to accomplish. For this reason this book will get a position within reach on my bookshelf.

The book is written by Mindaugas Pocius and published by Packt Publishing.

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