Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Services -- Table of Contents -- Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Services -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- 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 -- Introducing services and SOA -- Example implementations -- Bing API -- Mobile application -- Business Process Modeling (BPM) -- Architectural overview -- New and enhanced features -- The 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 -- The query service -- The metadata service -- The user session service -- The OData query service -- Choosing the right service for the job -- Complexity -- Flexibility -- Summary -- 2. Service Architecture and Deployment -- Introducing 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 -- The NetTcp adapter -- The HTTP adapter -- The filesystem adapter -- The MSMQ adapter -- The Windows Azure Service Bus 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 -- Introducing document services -- Key components -- The document query -- The 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 -- Performing validation -- Providing field sequencing -- Performing value mapping -- Setting default values -- The service class -- The 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 schema -- 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 -- The 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.

Creating the Title data contract -- Creating the Title list data contract -- Creating the Title service class -- Creating the Title service operation -- Creating the Title list service operation -- Creating the Title service contract -- Deploying services -- The rental service -- Rental header and line tables -- Rental service operations -- Rental data contracts -- The createRental service operation -- Consuming services -- Example 1 - retrieving titles -- Adding the service reference -- Consuming the service -- Example 2 - registering 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 -- The 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 -- ReliableAsynchronous -- ScheduledBatch -- 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 -- Linking the UI Builder to the data contract -- Testing -- Multithreading -- The individual task approach -- The helper approach -- Enabling multithreading -- Summary -- 6. Web Services -- Installing Visual Studio tools -- Visual Studio development -- Introducing the USA zip code service -- Creating the Visual Studio proxy library -- Adding a service reference -- X++ development -- Deploying managed code -- Deploy to Server -- Deploy to Client.

Consuming the web service -- First attempt -- Fixing configuration issues -- Deploying between environments -- Final result -- Summary -- 7. System Services -- Introducing system services -- Presenting a demo application -- The metadata service -- Filling the combobox -- The query service -- Fetching data for the grid -- Paging the results -- The user session service -- Retrieving user information -- The OData query service -- Creating and publishing a data source -- Creating a query -- Setting up document data sources -- Consuming the OData query service using Internet Explorer -- Consuming the OData query service using Visual Studio -- Adding a service reference -- Fetching data for the grid -- Consuming the OData query service using other applications -- Limitations -- Summary -- 8. High Availability -- Introducing high availability -- Adding redundancy -- Disaster recovery -- Putting high availability into practice -- The basic architecture -- Application-level load balancing -- Configuring the cluster -- Adding a dedicated load balancer -- Network Load Balancing -- NLB for AX load balancers -- NLB for services -- Summary -- 9. Tracing and Debugging -- Installing development tools -- Using the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 debugger -- Debugging the SysOperation framework -- Testing service operations -- Using the Visual Studio debugger -- Launching Visual Studio -- Attaching the debugger to the AOS -- Setting breakpoints -- Debugging a service call -- Using the Tracing cockpit -- Collecting a trace -- Using the integration port logging mode -- Configuring the logging mode -- Consulting the log -- Using WCF message logging and tracing -- Configuring message logging and tracing -- Analyzing service traces -- Analyzing message logging -- Analyzing tracing -- Summary -- A. Installing the Demo Application -- Prerequisites -- Dynamics AX 2012 models.

Using PowerShell -- Using AxUtil -- Dynamics AX XPO file -- Code snippets -- Initializing number sequences -- Visual Studio code -- Opening the samples -- Modifying the service references -- Sample data -- Index.