You may have heard about QuartzAX, an application for file-based integration with AX 7 (Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise Edition). Microsoft announced at the last Technical conference that it would be released in a few days, but it didn’t happen and it looked like it wouldn’t ever be made available. But it has …
If you’re familiar with SOAP web services, you likely know that they use Web Services Description Language (WSDL) to document what operations a service provide, what parameters they accept, what they return and so on. This information can be used to generate proxy classes, which you can use to communicate with remote systems simply by …
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If you download AX integration samples from GitHub, you’ll see (in JsonConsoleApplication project) that you can call JSON-based custom services by code like this: var request = HttpWebRequest.Create(ClientConfiguration.Default.UriString + "api/services/UserSessionService/AifUserSessionService/GetUserSessionInfo"); request.Headers[OAuthHelper.OAuthHeader] = OAuthHelper.GetAuthenticationHeader(); request.Method = "POST"; request.GetResponse(); It will call the operation and return its return value as JSON: { "$id":"1", "AOSLocaleName":"en-US", "AXLanguage":"EN-US", "Company":"DAT", "CompanyTimeZone":58, …
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I’m getting a lot of questions along the lines of “how on earth can we integrate our on-premises systems with AX 7 running in cloud?”, therefore let me share some of my thoughts. The first important point to realize is that “to integrate” means many different things, so there is no single solution for it. …
The on-premises deployment option for AX 7 (Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise Edition) was longed for by many and it’s finally there. You can learn more about it on On-premises deployment landing page.