Enterprise Portal Development Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Diwakar Bedekar

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Developer experience Efficiently create rich web applications utilizing Standard Microsoft development tools, programming languages and design patterns – Visual Studio, ASP.net/C# Rapid Application Development – Wide array of controls and options available ASP.NET controls EP Controls ( List / Form / Look up etc..) SharePoint Web Parts Third Party ASP.NET controls User Controls Custom Controls Easy to Customize and Maintain

EP Architecture Similarly to Desktop Ax 2009 Portal builds on the rich Ax programming model and data binding It exposes the rich Ax Metadata Binding It uses the full flexibility of ASP.NET (code and markup) It uses the dynamic customization and personalization of SharePoint It unifies ASP.NET, SharePoint and Ax Metadata in the AOT

Advantages Over X++ Web UI Framework Unlimited UI capabilities Responsive/Interactive UI using AJAX Easy to extend / Customize and use custom/third party controls Managed code development Powerful out-of-the-box controls Performance / Scalability Plug-n-Play Web Parts

Advantages over traditional asp.net solutions Built in Data Binding for extensibility Rich out of the box UI controls Built in Security Check, formatting and validation for Rapid Application development Native Ax support such as Field Groups, Ax user language setting, EDT that seamlessly bridges Ax to the Manage world of programming Session/Context mgmt/Connection to AOS Easy to call X++ business logic Stateless programming model support built into the framework Record Context / Encryption

Useful Links EP Quick startshttp://code.msdn.microsoft.com/axcodesa mples EP Screen castshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/dynamics/ax/cc aspx Solutions Monkey bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/solutions EP team bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/epblog EP SDK dochttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/library/aa aspx Channel 9 Videohttp://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx? postid= EP Training ( Partner Source) communities/training/trainingmaterials/stu dent/course80015.htm EP Benchmark ( Partner Source) deployment/documentation/benchmarks/a x2009epbenchmark.htm

Demos Demo 1 - Show Customer Information on EP Demo 2 – Build Custom Filtering Demo 3 – Use Template Fields & Custom Bound fields Demo 4 – Use Standard Asp.NET Chart Control Demo 5 – Use SilverLight Chart control Demo 6 – Create a Edit form.

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