Microsoft Dynamics AX blog by Zubair

Today I got a chance to review another book from Packt publications. This book is on SSRS report development titled Dynamics AX 2012 reporting cookbook by Kamalakannan Elangovan. This book is a collection of 50+ techniques to get you up and running with report development using SSRS in Dynamics AX. Some of the great features of this book are, Develop all kind of reports ranging from autodesign, matrix, multicolumn, line and gauge reports Learn how to use query, RDP, XML feeds and OLAP cubes as datasources for your reports Learn how to use SQL report builder for creating reports Learn how to upgrade reports from previous versions to Dynamics AX 2012 Learn how to add dimensions to reports Learn how to assess report performance and improve them The language is very fluid and there are clear illustrations to help the reader. Also, every topic has clear code snippets to explain the code in detail. If you are serious about improving your report development skills and want to be

Back in the days of Dynamics AX 4.0 & Dynamics AX 2009, developers had few choice when picking a good book to learn Dynamics AX development. My personal choice was the Inside Dynamics AX book from the Microsoft press and the Microsoft Dynamics AX cookbook by Mindaugas Pocius. Packt publications have been publishing a lot of cookbooks on various topics in Dynamics AX. They have more than 10 books on various topics in Dynamics AX. Recently I got a chance to review one of their book - Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook by Murray Fife . As the name suggests, this book is not specific about Dynamics AX, but how to extend Dynamics AX with other Microsoft technologies like SharePoint reporting tools like Power View and Power Pivot creating various analytical dashboards and BI scorecards collaborating with MS Outlook & Lync creating help documents for your customization creating web services in Dynamics AX organizing workflows creating role centers in Dynami