Freaky Tech Friday - Tales from the Script

Well it's that time of year again Ghouls & Ghost, where we dare venture into the shocking weird Tech world in - Freaky Tech Friday!

For those of you new souls, who dare are walking this dark path for the first time - let me share past tales of old from last seasons haunting stories. Freaky Tech Friday Recap of Shock-tober 2011.



We kick off this years spooky fray into the unknown with Tales from the Script! This story, like most stories, starts out on a normal developer day - whisking away at creating X++ code for business logic in AX 2012. However, this normal day quickly dissipate into darkness as TypeScript enters the scene.



It's purpose is an attempt to harness the dark side forces of JavaScript in order to assert control of that which should not be said.

Our developer, now faced with the challenge of using JavaScript - putting away his total devotion to a single, simple path, means he has a hoard of options in which to walk down this dark, spiral of doom. Learning the ways of the Sith... err... TypeScript, will enable our developer to master the dark side.



He can now call on the power of a mighty enforcer found in Visual Studio 2012. With this only the developer uses TypeScript, and with his trusted enforcer Visual Studio can he conjure up powerful dark side JavaScript output - that is targeted for scale beyond what is capable today.

In order to master this new sorcery our developer travels to a distant land and time called TypeScriptLang.org where he can download the compiler as well as the Visual Studio 2012 plug-in..

Our developer continues his fall into the wild, and with the aid of the following Source Code, as well as examples of learning how to use TypeScript today, gains understanding in how to conjure up such dark code.

With this new knowledge, our innocent developer can now bend the will of JavaScript to his desire, creating sinister web targeted apps for a multitude of targeted devices. Further with his existing knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics Ax, he can unleash a set of Data-Centric apps for consumption that target multiple use cases - all then as his beckoning JQuery calls.



If you dare to take this path yourself, be fore warned that this new language we call TypeScript is still considered to be in beta (v 0.8.0) for the enforcer know as Visual Studio 2012. However if mastered, TypeScript can bring to bare much needs types, classes and modules - Object Oriented Structures - to a once know as lacking in structure language, the dark side, JavaScript.

That's all for this Freaky Tech Friday Ghouls & Ghost. If you survived, and dare to return make sure and check back soon as next Friday will be the next installment of a frighten scare "OData of Death!". Till Next Time!
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Freaky Tech Friday - It came from another Platform

With it being October, one of my favorite times of the year, I thought it would be nice to have a fun, but informative series of post title: Freaky Tech Friday. This series of post, will be about Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, and how other technologies, from other platforms, other planets, and other dimensions can be used. Maybe not so much other planets or dimensions, but you get the idea.

With that, lets start this creepy stroll down the dark alley of interopability that exists with AX 2012. The once scary path, that was filled with gotcha gremlins, and barrier trolls, now has become not such a scray place. What I'm talking about here, is not the net.tcp consumption of Services hosted within the AOS itself, but extending this, so that other platforms can consume these services through hosting end points through IIS.



From the above system architecture we would be focusing our efforts on the hosted WCF services within IIS. These services are really pointers, to the same X++ based artifacts that live within an instance of AX. This is how advanced end points can be enabled, that, say would allow Java based software, python, Objective-C, and other possible technologies that come from other platforms could consume directly these services, or at least be enabled to do so.

To help us getting started down this dark path, of creating a solution-stien architecture, we need our first lesson to be focused on how to enable the hosting of Services within IIS for AX 2012. To start, we need to read and understand the following.: Install web services on IIS [AX 2012]

"Web services on IIS is an optional component. The Application Object Server (AOS) is the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service host for Microsoft Dynamics AX services. The AOS-hosted services are available to users and applications across the Intranet. To consume services over the Internet, you must host services on Internet Information Services (IIS). Skip this procedure if you do not need to expose the Microsoft Dynamics AX services over the Internet."

Now I want to be clear, that for non-Microsoft platform technologies, even within the intranet, consumption of the WCF services will need to most likely take place via hosting the services on IIS. This is related to the use of AOS hosted services being offered up via net.tcp bindings. Understanding this fact, will help you in enabling this other worldy technologies from another platform, communicate and work with AX 2012 services.

Following the above referenced TechNet article through, we can see how to setup our services, so they can be consumed by internet external consumers, as well as other technologies that need more enhanced integration port bindings.

Well I think thats enough to scare almost anyone, on this Freaky Tech Friday post. Tune in next week ghosts and ghouls, as we take this further, and go past the point of no return, into the abyss of integration! Scare you then!

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Happy Halloween

Well Happy Halloween everyone! It's been a scary month for business, but a lot of treats for Microsoft customers and clients came out of PDC as well.

Everyone have a safe and happy Halloween, or All Hallows Eve!




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