This blog post isn’t about Dynamics AX / Dynamics 365, although it may occasionally be useful for some AX/D365 developers as well. Let’s say I have a 30 minutes long movie that I want to share on a website and I want to give people an idea about the content of the video. Therefore I …
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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Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX 7) tries to get rid of the ugly concept of “customizations”, when developers directly change somebody else’s code, which has a plenty of negative consequences. Most importantly, installing a new version isn’t easy, because it requires dealing with conflicts in code. There are several ways how to make a class …
The OData service in Dynamics 365 for Operations returns data from user’s default company. But you can easily add cross-company=true to the URL (e.g. https://myaos.cloudax.dynamics.com/data/Customers?cross-company=true) to get data from all companies. You can also filter the query by DataAreaId field, if you want data from a specific company. But developers usually don’t construct the URL …