Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
Latest posts
Installing Dynamics CRM 4.0 on a Windows Server 2008 machine
So, I was facing several issues when trying to install CRM 4.0 on a Windows Server 2008 machine. But I have found this article where you can see several typical error messages, and how you can solve it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950100/en-us For errors about SQL Reporting Services, you can look at this article : How to install and how to configure SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938245 One common error when installing SQL Server Reporting Services on a Windows Server 2008 which is also a Domain Controller, is rega...
Presenting at Microsoft TechReady6!! (Seattle – Feb. 15th)
Last week Steffen and I were presenting a session called "The real cool fit!: Dynamics AX 2009 and the new Microsoft development technologies". Here is the content we were presenting in Seattle!!: MSDY309 The real cool fit! - Microsoft Dynamics AX 5.0 and the new Microsoft development technologies Primary Track: Business Solutions Session Type: Breakout Speaker(s): Cesar De la Torre Llorente, Steffen Niehues Abstract: How Microsoft Dynamics AX fits into the Mainstream Microsoft Stack and why you should care!. We will present how to access and consume Microsoft Dynamics AX 5.0 business logic using several...
Design_Time_Addresses URL in WCF (.NET 3.5)
.NET 3.5 creates an ACL (Access Control List) for the namespace "http://+:8731/Design_Time_Addresses" during the installation of Visual Studio so users without administrator privilege are able to develop WCF services. The ACL is set to (UI), which includes all interactive users logged on to the machine. Administrators can add or remove users from this ACL, or open additional ports. This ACL enables WCF or WF templates to send and receive data in their default configuration. It also enables users to use the WCF Service Auto Host (wcfSvcHost.exe) without granting them administrator privileges. You can modify ...
Error when consuming AX 5.0 AIF Services from an external .NET client application: How to fix it!!
If you create an AIF Service from scratch (like creating an AX query and generating the WCF Service with the AIF wizard) and then you try to consume it from an external .NET client app, you'll get an error (at least with AX 5.0 CTP3 drop2). On the other hand, you are able to consume, with no problems, all the out-of-the-box AX 5.0 AIF services (like Customers, and so on). So, the .NET error you get when consuming your own custom AIF Service is something like the following: "Request Failed. See the Exception Log for details" System.ServiceModel.FaultException was unhandled Message="Request Failed. See the E...
How to find out which Form class and tables are used by a specific Dynamics AX form/functional process.
This is a basic tip for developers who are starting with Dynamics AX. So, to find the form class and tables that are used by a functional process (like when you are executing and seeing an AX form), what we need to do first is to find out the form class name. To find the AOT form class name, open that form that's used in a process and Right-click on the form (over any record, for example) and select Setup. From there we can see the Form class definition and drill down to see all the tables it is using and so on. You can also use SQL Profiler to discover what database objects are being accessed during a ...
Event – Extending and developing with Dynamics AX ‘5.0’ – Microsoft METRO Discovery Event (Madrid – January 30th 2008)
‘Dynamics AX "5.0" - Metro Discover Event’ - Madrid – January 30th 2008 We’re going to deliver a Dynamics AX event specially made for ISVs (companies which creates and sell their own software). So, we’ll be speaking about new AX 5.0 development features and of course, we’ll be speaking about METRO which is our initiative/program for ‘Early Adopters’ ISVs, in this case, specifically for Dynamics AX 5.0 early adopters. METRO is therefore oriented just to ISVs companies which want to develop their products over or integrated with latest versions of Dynamics (currently in beta state). So METRO offers free traini...
We delivered a session in MTC-Summit 2008 (Berlin) about Dynamics AX and new Microsoft development technologies
So yesterday, Steffen Niehues and I (we both are in Western-Europe DPE virtual Team) delivered a session about "Dynamics AX and the new Microsoft development technologies" in the MTC-Summit 2008 event, in Berlin. So, all the attendees were Microsoft Certified Trainers. Before our speech, Wilfried Heermann and Gina Haines both spoke about the opportunity MCTs have about training Dynamics, how can they be enrolled in this and also explaining our work in Microsoft DPE (Development & Platform Evangelism). It was a very nice event, and we delivered our session with success!!. We're getting such a good feed-back...
Accesing the Network from a ‘Smart Device Emulator’ which is within a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine
If you are developing .NET Compact Framework apps (Pocket PC or Windows Mobile), using, for instance, Visual Studio 2008, but you are using a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine (where you have all the development environment installed), things get a little bit tricky when you want to access the network from the "Smart Device Emulator"... It turns out that when you want to enable the 'Smart Device Emulator network card' (from Pocket PC emulator window --> Configure --> Network --> Enable NE2000 network adapter), it needs to have the "Virtual Machine Network Services Driver". And that driver comes just with ...
How to enable debugging on Server – Dynamics AX
In most of the cases, our X++ classes have to be executing within the server (AOS). In a default deployment we're not able to debug server code. To have this Dynamics AX feature, we must enable it in ‘Microsoft Dynamics AX Server Configuration Utility’ tool (within 'Administrative Tools' menu). You may need to use the Manage button to Create a new Configuration. Then, on the first tab, Application Object Server, make sure that the check box option "Enable breakpoints to debug X++ code running on this server" is checked. There is a direct registry key to do it, too. (but this way may be not sup...