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From the Microsoft Dynamics AX Blogs: the iPad opportunity; 5 Ways to Close a Form; Hide the Navigation Pane; Color Individual Lines in an Enterprise Portal Grid

by Jared Berezin
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Dynamics AX on the iPad: From Brandon George: "The iPad is a great platform that if targeted right can help your company extend and build upon it's dynamics ax investment, including the windows azure cloud platform... a company can have the iPad for internal and external application use, even if it's just a 3 person shop. How is this you ask? Well for one, let's take and say the company has a desire to connect with outside customers, vendors and employees. Let's say also the company would like to have their product catalog running on he iPad and iPhone in a native application. (html5 talks aside for now, as well as rdp, which both can be used for extended dynamics ax use to the iPhone and iPad.) 

"Let's also say this company has dynamics ax as their erp platform. Then they can have an app developed that targets both iPhone and iPad that helps brand their company in a native app fashion on the apple platform. This app can connect to dynamics ax through either wcf services hosted on premise with the company, or, hosted in the cloud through windows azure platform." 

5 Ways to Close a Form: Dynamics AX tools and tutorials explains: "There are "only" 5 ways to close a form:

  • Close - close the form. Similar to the 'X' button.
  • CloseOK - close the form, and set the OK flag - called by the Commandbutton::Ok
  • CloseCancel - close the ...

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Jared Berezin serves as a contributing writer to MSDynamicsWorld.com. With combined interests in technology and science, Jared previously served as a writer for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, drafting scientific narrative reports on the latest advancements in cancer research. Jared has also served as associate marketing specialist for International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research firm. In this position, he planned and executed strategic marketing initiatives for IDC's software and services research programs, and wrote outbound communications to the press, existing clients, and prospects. Jared also has experience working for several local newspapers in eastern Massachusetts. Jared graduated with honors from Colby College with a BA in English and creative writing.
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