Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Portal Development
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 has introduced some new features in Enterprise Portal development.
Finally, developers will be able to do portal development in Visual Studio 2008. Not only will they be able to use currently best development environment, but they will be able to use standard programming platforms like ASP.NET.
Dynamics AX 2009 will enable developers to create ASP.NET controls and to incorporate them to the Enterprise Portal site. In this way, the Enterprise Portal (which in the past was used only for basic functionalities) will generate new power. Enterprise Portal development will become much easier and it will expose new functionalities to users. Developers now can use a set of standard .NET controls in ASP.NET development, and above that developers are able to use AJAX.
Enterprise Portal contains SharePoint Web Part, which is able to load ASP.NET controls created with the Dynamics AX template called Dynamics AX User Control. This control can host standard .NET controls, as well as controls developed for Dynamics AX (such as AXDataSource and AXGridView). This enables users to fully explore Dynamics AX metadata and to automatically format column using this metadata (for example "field groups").
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