Customizations vs Extensions

David Boll Principal Developer, Team Manager David Boll is a Principle Developer, Team Manager at Stoneridge Software. Dave joined the team as a Senior Developer after 6 years at Microsoft where he served in roles as both a tester and a development engineer working on features for the Dynamics AX 2012 RTM, R2, R3 and Rainier releases, including writing many of the financial SSRS reports. He also worked on code upgrades and form migration. He has experience in X++, C#, ASP. NET, SQL, and web development. Dave has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Graduate Certificate in Software Engineering from North Dakota State University. Dave holds the following Microsoft certifications: Microsoft AX 2009 Financials Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 CU8 Development Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Development Introduction Development, Extensions and Deployment for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations davidb@stoneridgesoftware.com

What is a Customization? Default way to change AX 2012 code Also called “Over layering” Direct change to the base object Code can be put anywhere in objects

What is an Extension Only way to change code in D365 F&O “Eventing” Base object doesn’t change Code changes at the beginning and ending

Visual Base Office

Visual Extension Office Customization Office AX Code to add Development

Why? Upgrades as easier SaaS model “How it should have been done in the first place”

Customer AX 2012 D365 F&O

Sales Invoice SSRS Report AX 2012 D365 F&O

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