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Questions about starting with business connector

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Posted on by JoeWirtley 60

I am an experienced .NET developer who knows nothing about Dynamics.  I need to import and export data to Dynamics AX 2009.  It appears that the .NET Business Connector is the way to go about this, since I believe my code will be running on a box close to the server.  I have several questions;

1. Is there a better/different way than the business connector to integrate?  

2. How do I get the business connector libraries?  In theory it appears that I can install it from the Dynamics AX setup.  However, as soon as I start to run that, it stops me because my machine is not in a domain.  Do I need a machine in a domain to get the business connector?

3. Will my .NET application need to be on a machine in the domain with Dynamics in production?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Joe

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    JoeWirtley 60 on at
    Re: Questions about starting with business connector

    Thanks for the replies.  I was able to find the Microsoft.Dynamics.BusinessConnectorNet.dll on the Dynamics installation DVD image: \Msi\Components32\globalassemblycache\GAC32 so I could at least compile an example using the Axapta classes.  When I get an instance of Dynamics AX installed somewhere, I will try it out to see if it works.

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    msdn.microsoft.com/.../bb931177(v=AX.10).aspx

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    Luegisdorf 1,930 on at
    Re: Questions about starting with business connector

    Hi Joe

    1) It would be easier to realize it inside AX, but since you say you have no clue how to program in AX the better way for you might be the BC (Business Connector). An alternative would be the AIF (Application Integration Framework), but there are just some specific services out of the box (manipulate customers, invoices and some more).

    2/3) Yes, for the installation for the Dynamics Client you need to act on a machine within a domain. But theoretically you can use any domain (even it's different from the one you want to connect later), because you need Windows domain user credentials to logon with the BC anyway.

    You can try to copy the Bin\ folder from an existing client installation to the standalone machine instead a proper installation, but I don't know if that works well (missing registry and so on ...) - and of course it's not supported by Microsoft if you go in trouble and need help.

    But what you additionally need is knowledge of the data model in AX which you want to manipulate and its rules (keys, mandatory fields etc ..). And also the AX buffer logic provided by the BC to realize data manipulation in your .NET program.

    Regards

    Patrick

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