Planning Ahead

Whether you are an Independent Software Vendor
(ISV) with an innovative application and a vision to bring its benefits to millions of small businesses around the world or
one with an ingenious way to enable large enterprises to become more
competitive, choosing the right business model to expand internationally will
be critical to your success.

Now that you have done your homework – determined
which customer segments to target, refined your value propositions, researched
the best countries to enter and analyzed your global and local competition – one
key question remains: do you go direct with a local sales office or do you sell
indirectly through partner channels?

Going Direct

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Issue:

I bumped into this error when building my .Net app (using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate)  which consumes Dynamics AX 2009 (.Net Business Connector assembly)

 Solution -

Update – In my specific scenario, I’m not leveraging any of the .Net 4.0 Framework features, so I just changed the Framework Version to 3.5 to make this work.

But, if you are targetting .Net 4.0, you need to perform an additional change in config after you change the Framework version to 4.0 otherwise you will run into the following error:

“Mixed mode assembly is built against version ‘v2.0.50727′ of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information”

In order to fix this error, just add this specific entry in your app.config under configuration section:

startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=”true”, so now your modified app.config should look like the below:

And you should be good to go now with .Net 4.0!

P.S Florian has a theory on .Net 4.x compatibility with AX 2009 BC in his blog , but without making this additional change in config as I have shown above, it won’t work and as said before I was just using a basic .Net 3.5 targetted app just to test one of my AX BC Classes

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Client Profiles
Announces Release of CRM4Accounting

Client
Profiles, a provider of CRM software for the professional services market,
has launched CRM4Accounting, which is powered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM and
tailored specifically for the accounting industry. The new software offers the
tools and capabilities companies need to organize and maintain customer
relationships from first contact through long-term client interaction,
according to the company.

CRM4Accounting, which is modeled after the company’s
CRM4Legal application for law firms, features a centralized database through
which all information is stored so personnel can easily manage client
activities and support the company’s marketing effo…

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Issue:

I bumped into this error when building my .Net app (using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate)  which consumes Dynamics AX 2009 (.Net Business Connector assembly)

 Solution -

Go to Project Properties  and change the Framework Type to .Net 3.5 which makes sense as BC.Net is built on top of .Net Framework 3.5 and .Net 4.0 (Build your project and it should get compiled successfully now)

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Issue:

I bumped into this error when building my .Net app (using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate)  which consumes Dynamics AX 2009 (.Net Business Connector assembly)

 Solution -

Go to Project Properties  and change the Framework Type to .Net 3.5 which makes sense as BC.Net is built on top of .Net Framework 3.5 and .Net 4.0 (Build your project and it should get compiled successfully now)

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Columbus IT Wins
Major Deal in Russia with One of the Region’s Largest Retail Chains

Columbus IT
has entered into an agreement with a major food retail chain in Russia and the Eastern
European region to deliver a business-critical ERP solution.

Based on Microsoft Dynamics AX, the solution lets
the retail chain optimize and control its growing business in the region. Under
the deal, Columbus IT will deliver a retail solution based on Microsoft Dynamics
AX, strategic planning and implementation, consultant services and standard
software, according to the company. The solution will be implemented in all of
the retail chain’s stores in Moscow in the beginning of 2012.

"Our recent agreement w…

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Recently; Nikolaj Bjørner (Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research) shared interesting insights and perspectives on software engineering at MDCC. Getting a regularly injection of food-for-thought is something I appreciate about my job. And as always… we are hiring.

The Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group at Microsoft Research in Redmond works on several dimensions related to software engineering, including logical foundations, program verification, testing, analysis, empirical software analysis, compiler tools, program optimization, synthesis and model-based software design. This talk describes several of the RiSE groups activities, which are roughly three-pronged: divided between Microsoft product groups, with external developers and with academic interactions.

A significant part of our work involves tool building. The http://rise4fun.com web-site provides an interactive environment where several of the tools developed in RiSE are showcased through interactive demonstrations. I will walk through several of these tools during the talk showing by example our work on graph drawing (AGL), satisfiability modulo theories theorem proving (Z3), program verification (Boogie and VCC), test-case generation using dynamic symbolic execution (Pex), model-based design (FORMULA), symbolic analysis of regular expressions (Rex) and transducers (Bek). I will also describe and present a new tool TouchStudio (http://touchstudioapp.com) that brings a radically new software development environment to and on the Windows Phone.

It is a new programming environment and language built around the new reality of mobile devices with advanced touchscreens, sensors and cloud connectivity.

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Columbus IT Wins
Major Deal in Russia with One of the Region’s Largest Retail Chains

Columbus IT
has entered into an agreement with a major food retail chain in Russia and the Eastern
European region to deliver a business-critical ERP solution.

Based on Microsoft Dynamics AX, the solution lets
the retail chain optimize and control its growing business in the region. Under
the deal, Columbus IT will deliver a retail solution based on Microsoft Dynamics
AX, strategic planning and implementation, consultant services and standard
software, according to the company. The solution will be implemented in all of
the retail chain’s stores in Moscow in the beginning of 2012.

"Our recent agreement w…

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Microsoft has been making the case for Dynamics AX’s role in
two-tier ERP publicly for more than a year, and according to Dynamics AX
Product Manager Rudy Dillenseger in a new
blog post, Microsoft has its own two-tier ERP strategy with 15 of its own second
tier Dynamics AX implementations in place for businesses ranging from online
music to DVD production to retail to XBOX production to expense management.

While they may not have an ERP offering that will displace a
large enterprise’s primary Oracle or SAP, Microsoft has been building out
features, architecture, and a partner ecosystem for Dynamics AX that, it
believes, make a s…

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Unless you’ve been living off the grid for the past
few years, you know that when it comes to software the cloud is where it’s at.
That means when Microsoft Dynamics ISVs plan their next move, a investing in a cloud-ready
solution is a likely move.  But moving to
the cloud also means re-evaluating an ISV’s overall business strategies-not an
easy proposition.

So MSDynamicsWorld.com talked to PowerObjects,
a provider of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which also builds a lot of add-ons, about
what kinds of challenges ISVs have moving their solutions to the cloud.

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