Inside Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012

Chapter 3. Microsoft Dynamics AX and .NET

In this chapter

Introduction

Use third-party assemblies

Write managed code

Hot swap assemblies on the server

Introduction

Complex systems, such as Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, are often deployed in heterogeneous environments that contain several disparate systems. Often, these systems contain legacy data that might be required for running Microsoft Dynamics AX, or they might offer functionality that is vital for running the organization.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 offers several ways of integrating with other systems. For example, your organization might need to harvest information from old Microsoft Excel files. To do this, you could write a simple add-on in Microsoft Visual Studio and easily integrate it ...