1. Enterprise Portal Development Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Diwakar Bedekar (diwakarb@microsoft.com) 04-28-09

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3. Developer experience • Efficiently create rich web applications utilizing Standard Microsoft development tools, programming languages and design patterns • Visual Studio , ASP.net/C# • Rapid Application Development – Wide array of controls and options available • ASP.NET controls • EP Controls ( List / Form / Look up etc..) • SharePoint Web Parts • Third Party ASP.NET controls • User Controls • Custom Controls • Easy to Customize and Maintain

5. EP Architecture • Similarly to Desktop Ax 2009 Portal builds on the rich Ax programming model and data binding • It exposes the rich Ax Metadata Binding • It uses the full flexibility of ASP.NET (code and markup) • It uses the dynamic customization and personalization of SharePoint • It unifies ASP.NET, SharePoint and Ax Metadata in the AOT

6. Advantages Over X++ Web UI Framework • Unlimited UI capabilities • Responsive/Interactive UI using AJAX • Easy to extend / Customize and use custom/third party controls • Managed code development • Powerful out-of-the-box controls • Performance / Scalability • Plug-n-Play Web Parts

7. Advantages over traditional asp.net solutions • Built in Data Binding for extensibility • Rich out of the box UI controls • Built in Security Check , formatting and validation for Rapid Application development • Native Ax support such as Field Groups, Ax user language setting, EDT that seamlessly bridges Ax to the Manage world of programming • Session/Context mgmt/Connection to AOS • Easy to call X++ business logic • Stateless programming model support built into the framework • Record Context / Encryption

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9. Demos • Demo 1 - Show Customer Information on EP • Demo 2 – Build Custom Filtering • Demo 3 – Use Template Fields & Custom Bound fields • Demo 4 – Use Standard Asp.NET Chart Control • Demo 5 – Use SilverLight Chart control • Demo 6 – Create a Edit form.

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