Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services电子书

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services

Table of Contents

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services

What are services and SOA?

Example implementations

Bing API

Mobile application

Business Process Modeling (BPM)

Architecture overview

What's new?

AOS WCF service host

WCF adapters

Integration ports

IIS hosting without Business Connector

Non-XML support

AIF change tracking

Custom services

The SysOperation framework

Types of services

Document services

Custom services

System services

Query service

Metadata service

User session service

The right service for the right job

Complexity

Flexibility

Summary

2. Service Architecture and Deployment

What is WCF?

Existing technologies

The ABC of WCF

Service deployment

Service operations

Inbound versus outbound ports

Inbound ports

Outbound ports

Basic versus enhanced ports

Basic ports

Creating a basic port

Enhanced ports

Creating an enhanced port

Adapters

Service operations

Data policies

Transforms

Pipelines

Value mapping

Document filters

Troubleshooting

Security

Bindings

Adapters

NetTcp adapter

HTTP adapter

File system adapter

MSMQ adapter

Custom adapters

Service generation – under the hood

Generated artifacts

Service contract and implementation

Message contracts

WCF configuration storage

The power of CIL

CIL output

Summary

3. AIF Document Services

What are document services?

Key components

Document query

Document class

Responsibilities of a document class

XSD generation

XML serialization and deserialization

Cross-table business logic

Validation and business rule enforcement

AxBC classes

Responsibilities of an AxBC class

Validation

Field sequencing

Value mapping

Default values

Service class

Service node

Creating a document service

Setting the compiler level

Creating the query

Running the AIF Document Service Wizard

Selecting document parameters

Selecting code generation parameters

Generating code

Finishing up

Fixing compiler errors

ClassDeclaration

The cacheObject method

The cacheRecordRecord method

Fixing tasks

Labels

Generating an XSD job

Constraints

Validation

Updating the service contract

Fixing best practice errors

Privileges

Setting mandatory fields

Updating an existing document service

Adding service operations

Updating supporting classes

Deploying a document service

Consuming a document service

Create

Find

Creating query criteria

Using Find

Read

FindKeys

Update

Delete

GetKeys

Document filter

Using GetKeys

GetChangedKeys

Asynchronous communication

Send service framework

Batch processing

Summary

4. Custom Services

Key components

Attributes

Custom services attributes

Data contracts

Service contracts

Collection types

Creating custom services

The Title service

The Title data contract

The Title list data contract

The Title service class

The Title list service operation

The Title list service operation

The Title service contract

Deploy the service

The rental service

Rental header and line tables

Rental service operations

Rental data contracts

The createRental service operation

Consuming the service

Example 1 – Retrieving titles

Adding the service reference

Consuming the service

Example 2 – Register a rental

Creating the service reference – Advanced

Always generate message contracts

Collection type

Consuming the service

Summary

5. The SysOperation Framework

SysOperation versus RunBaseBatch

Creating a SysOperation service

Data contract

Declaration and members

Query helper methods

Service and service operation

Menu item

Testing

Validation

Defaulting

Running a SysOperation service

Service and service operation

Execution modes

Synchronous

Asynchronous

Reliable asynchronous

Scheduled batch

Custom controllers

Usage scenarios

Initializing the data contract

Dialog overrides

Creating a controller

Declaration

The main method

Constructor

Menu item

Testing

Custom UI Builders

Creating a UI Builder

Declaration

The override method

The postBuild method

One more attribute

Testing

Multithreading

Individual task approach

Helper approach

Enabling multithreading

Summary

6. Web Services

Installing the Visual Studio Tools

Visual Studio development

Introducing the USA zip code service

Creating the Visual Studio proxy library

Adding the service reference

X++ development

Managed code deployment

Deploy to Server

Deploy to Client

Consuming the web service

First attempt

Fixing configuration issues

Deploying between environments

Final result

Summary

7. System Services

What are system services?

A demo application

Metadata service

Filling the combobox

Query service

Fetching data for the grid

Paging the results

User session service

Retrieving user information

Summary

Index