Quick Start to AX 7 Development

Quick Start to AX 7 Development 

It gives an Quick start of AX7, where in you can create a Model, X++ job using VS2015 and run it.

So Lets start by create your own Model

• The first step is to log into Visual Studio as an Administrator

Once within Visual Studio, go to the Dynamics AX7 menu and select Model Management and ‘Create model’. 

Create the model in the form that appears and fill out the fields as appropriate

Click ‘Next’ and select ‘Existing package’ and choose ‘Application Suite’

Press ‘Next’ – accept the default values suggested and press ‘Finish’

In the ‘Save’ screen that appears, select the project DynamicsAX7 and give it a name of your choice and press ‘OK’

Notice in the Solution Explorer to the right in the screen a new Project has been created in your newly created Model

On the Solution Explorer go to the project and right-click and select ‘Properties’

In here note that the project is in the new Model just created and that the customisation will be saved in the ‘USR’ layer

Also, it’s a good idea to specify which company you wish to execute the code in, here ‘DEMF’

Press OK

 Now to add ‘Runnable Class(Job) to the Project do the following. On the project right-click and select ‘Add’ and then select ‘New Item’

In the screen-shot appears select ‘Code’ and then ‘Runable Class(Job)’

And press ‘Add’

Note that now in the Solution explorer that the Runable Class has been added

Doubleclick on the ‘Runable class’ and enter the code editor window and give your job a meaningful name and write your code like you would do any X++ job as known in previous versions

Save the project(Ctrl + S) and to compile the job, select ‘Build’ and ‘Build Solution’ from the toolbar

Wait until the output window reports that the build has completed

Now in order to run the job, you need to set it as a ‘Startup Object’

Go to the Solution Explorer and on the Job, right-click and select ‘set as Startup Object’

Now to execute the job, select ‘Debug’ in the toolbar and then ‘Start without Debugging’

And note the output in the browser