Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services -- Table of Contents -- Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 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 -- 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.