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Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX
Dynamics AX 2012 R2: Budget plan entry via Excel
The Excel Add-in enables users to interact with services to pull data from AX into Excel, enter and...
Date: 11/06/2013
Dynamics AX 2012 R2: Key Office 365 scenarios
Dynamics AX 2012 R2 has a number of new and improved Office Interop capabilities. They enable a...
Date: 07/17/2013
Dynamics AX 2012 R2: Improved Office Interop capabilities
Dynamics AX 2012 R2 has been out for a while now, but I realized that I hadn't posted updated...
Date: 07/17/2013
Dynamics AX: Copy+Paste vs Export to Excel
I had a question from a customer recently: "On a Details Form, copy+paste gives me more fields than...
Date: 03/27/2013
Dynamics AX 2012 R2: Office, SharePoint, and Lync versions supported
I just completed my Office Interop presentation at Convergence in New Orleans and I had a number of...
Date: 03/26/2013
Dynamics AX: Turning off specific tasks
Recently I had a someone ask me how to turn off or disable the Export to Excel task. Unfortunately,...
Date: 02/25/2013
Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Excel Add-in - Copy and paste and the addition of large data sets should be done with change tracking off
We did a lot of performance improvements for the Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Excel Add-in, but there is...
Date: 10/28/2012
Responding to keyboard shortcuts in Dynamics AX
In Dynamics AX, the use of shortcut keys triggers a task. Some tasks do things, like Ctrl+F3 opening...
Date: 10/12/2012
Data Migration for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
Partick Nelson recently made a Dynamics AX Data Migration white paper available on...
Date: 03/26/2012
Can Dynamics AX 2012 work with Office 365?
Office 365 provides secure anywhere access to Microsoft Office capabilities including document...
Date: 02/27/2012
Dynamics AX 2012 Office Add-ins and Office 2007
One of the more common Office Add-ins questions I get asked is "Why don't the Office Add-ins work...
Date: 02/24/2012
Dynamics AX 2012 Excel Add-in: Timeout issues?
I've heard from a few people having problems with size limitations when publishing from the Dynamics...
Date: 02/24/2012
Dynamics AX 2012 Office Add-ins: Information sources
The Office Add-ins for Dynamics AX 2012 are a great tool for working with Dynamics AX data. The Word...
Date: 02/24/2012
Dynamics AX 2012 is almost there
Last month I presented at the Dynamics AX Technical Conference 2011 where we showcased Dynamics AX...
Date: 02/16/2011
Introduction to Dynamics AX for Developers
I did a presentation for the Fargo Moorhead .NET Developers Group last night at the Microsoft Fargo...
Date: 03/12/2008
Behavior Driven Development
At the last Fargo Moorhead Developers meeting we had a great presentation from Max Pool about...
Date: 12/03/2007
MBF Changes: It's all about Microsoft Dynamics
A couple of people saw the recent news about the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) and emailed me...
Date: 11/10/2005
And I'm back...
After a number of technical difficulties and a little apathy in getting them fixed, my blog is back...
Date: 07/11/2005
My blog got mangled...
None of my old posts seem to be showing up. I'll get them back up shortly. I haven't posted in a...
Date: 06/06/2005
Conceptual Thinking Around Services: Which representation is the 'right' one?
I have been doing a lot of work with Indigo and Service Orientation recently. I've been keeping...
Date: 02/15/2005
WS-Eventing for Dummies
I was looking for a simple explanation of WS-Eventing, and it doesn't come much simpler than Bruce...
Date: 01/06/2005
Bill Gates at CES 2005
I was watching the keynote talk from Bill Gates at CES 2005 last night. There are so many cool...
Date: 01/06/2005
Geek humour: The search dog
Rory is the co-host of the DotNetRocks online talk show and a Microsoft MSDN presenter. His blog is...
Date: 12/14/2004
Ultimate Ears: The best earphones in the world
I splashed out a little a couple of weeks ago and ordered some Ultimate Ears UE-5c's. They arrived...
Date: 12/14/2004
Bob Muglia on WinFS: Just after Longhorn, or not until Blackcomb?
On Friday, I read coverage on News.com about an interview with Bob Muglia. In it he talks publicly...
Date: 12/13/2004
Steve Ernst on serialization to XML
You my have heard about how everyone at Microsoft has an office. Well... that is true of Redmond,...
Date: 12/10/2004
Ward Cunningham on Patterns and XP
Ward Cunningham recently did a great interview with TSS.Net. In the interview he talks at length on...
Date: 12/09/2004
Extreme Programming Explained: 2nd edition
Recently I noticed that Kent Beck had released the 2nd edition of one of my favourite IT books...
Date: 12/08/2004
My New Obsession: The Humble Weather Report
Ever since I got to Fargo I have been fascinated by the weather. I have never lived in a place where...
Date: 12/08/2004
Jon Eaves: Infotainment
I love geek humor, and Jon Eaves spits it out on a daily basis. Check out his latest contribution to...
Date: 12/08/2004
He emerges from his prolonged silence to say...
It snowed! I'm told that the snow has arrived super late this year, so I have been lucky to catch...
Date: 12/08/2004
Fargo, North Dakota: I have arrived!
I left Melbourne on the 10th and spent a week in Chicago and New York before arriving in Fargo on...
Date: 10/25/2004
MBF: Will we see you before 2007?
A recent article from eWeek has quoted Microsoft Developer Division Executive Soma Somasegar about...
Date: 10/06/2004
Spring has arrived!
In the land down-under, it is springtime. The birds are chirping louder, the days are getting...
Date: 10/05/2004
MBF and WinFS: A view of the world I am entering
Tim Brookins is an Architect on the MBF team (and he is based in Fargo). When I got impatient...
Date: 09/22/2004
Fun with Generics: BindingList and ReadOnlyCollection
Mitch Denny's post about List events and Bill McCarthy's subsequent answer pointing him to...
Date: 09/15/2004
MDNUG: DotNetNuke on the 28th of September
The next MDNUG (Melbourne Microsoft Developer Group) meeting will be on the 28th of September. Frank...
Date: 09/15/2004
Longhorn: We have a date!
In case you haven't seen it yet, we have a date for Longhorn! News.com's coverage even includes an...
Date: 08/30/2004
Mappoint: Do you know where you are?
I heard about the launch of an Australian MapPoint service a couple of weeks ago, but I hadn't...
Date: 08/26/2004
MDNUG: Melbourne MS Developer Group - Meeting Review - 24 August 2004
Last night we had the monthly MDNUG meeting at Microsoft's offices in Melbourne. Thank-you everyone...
Date: 08/25/2004
What makes a good open-source project?
Ted Neward made an interesting post on TheServerSide.Net about .Net and open source: What makes a...
Date: 08/12/2004
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Available
After being announced last week, beta 1 of Visual Studio 2005 has just become available on MSDN...
Date: 07/05/2004
Presentation: Refactoring
Last week I gave a presentation at the Melbourne Microsoft Developer Group (MDNUG) on Refactoring...
Date: 06/30/2004
Presentation: Agile .Net Development - Part 1 - Tools and Basics
Last night I gave a presentation at the Melbourne Agile Developer Group (MXPEG) about agile .Net...
Date: 06/30/2004
OJB.Net and Generics
I posted a little while ago about trying to use reflection with generic types. I have been trying to...
Date: 06/08/2004
OJB.Net and Generics
OJB.Net and Generics The released versions of the .Net framework don’t support Generics....
Date: 06/08/2004
VSTS: Getting coded web tests to run
The coded web tests supported by the VSTS test tools really excite me. There are so many web test...
Date: 06/04/2004