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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Query on EP Developer Tools

We are setting up DEV Environment for our EP Portal Development on Dynamics AX 2009.

We would be using EP extensively in our project as we are building up some store portals web pages. Currently, our environment topology for DEV is that we have different servers for AOS and EP and Role Centers respectively. We have around 15 developers who would be using their individual machines to build up Enterprise portal pages, these guys have Windows XP running on their local pc’s with Visual Studio.
Hence, we are trying to install the EP Developer tools on their machines but the setup can’t proceed as it expects EP and Role Center to be installed on the same physical machine where we are installing Developer Tools.




Logically, I think it should be only the BC.Net which should be installed on client machines along with the DEV tools as the BC.Net knows which AOS to talk to and thereby EP and Role Centers. But, this is not working.

Can anyone enlighten me if any workaround or any solution/fix is available for this? I would appreciate if you can drop a comment here or mail me on mail.dilipn@gmail.com. If I find an answer, I will post it back here.

8 comments:

Chirag said...

Dilip,

Role centers and Enterprise portal framework is prerequisites on the computer where you are installing the developer tools.

Check installation guide.

Chirag

Luegisdorf said...

Hi Dilip

I a sad, but known fact, that EP development requires Windows Sharepoint Services (or Sharepoint Server) which both cannot be runned on a Windows XP OS. As I know, there are no tricks to workaround this fact.

But if you find a solution - please let us know!

Dilip said...

Guys, thanks for your comments and email.

I gave it a shot last week by copying manually the EP related DLL's and the Visual Studio Project and Item Templates.
By doing the above steps, I managed to get the Dynamics Web project in Visual Studio and was able to open it, but the link to AOT in Solution Explorer and "Dynamics" toolbar in the VS Toolbox is not coming up. Will do further investigation and will write a detailed note soon, as was bit busy in AIF dev stuff. Wish me all the best :-) and thanks again to all of you.

Einar said...

Hi

What we have done to go around this is to have VPC's running windows server 2003 for each developer.

I really dont like this aproach from Microsoft and i would like to be able to develop directly from my PC.

We tried some tricks in order to do this but we did not get them to work.

I had a link to an article how to go around this, but i have lost the link. I will try to dig it up and post it here

Einar said...

Hi

What we have done to go around this is to have VPC's running windows server 2003 for each developer.

I really dont like this aproach from Microsoft and i would like to be able to develop directly from my PC.

We tried some tricks in order to do this but we did not get them to work.

I had a link to an article how to go around this, but i have lost the link. I will try to dig it up and post it here

Gangadhar reddy said...

Hi

I have a requirement where i need to copy header information to lines while creating the lines

I have a site and warehouse fields in header.And in the lines i have inventdimid field (which has relation with inventdim)
While i create lines (using catalog items), i need to

copy the header site and warehouse to lines. Also when the header inormaion is edited, the same should

be updated to lines. I need to do this modification in enterprise portal.

Here the header and lines are related to Purchase requisition.

I tried to do changes in datasets but iam unable to do this

Do you have any idea on how this can be acheived

Thanks in advance

Gangadhar reddy said...

Hi

I have a requirement where i need to copy header information to lines while creating the lines

I have a site and warehouse fields in header.And in the lines i have inventdimid field (which has relation with inventdim)
While i create lines (using catalog items), i need to

copy the header site and warehouse to lines. Also when the header inormaion is edited, the same should

be updated to lines. I need to do this modification in enterprise portal.

Here the header and lines are related to Purchase requisition.

I tried to do changes in datasets but iam unable to do this

Do you have any idea on how this can be acheived

Thanks in advance

Gangadhar reddy said...

Hi

I have a requirement where i need to copy header information to lines while creating the lines

I have a site and warehouse fields in header.And in the lines i have inventdimid field (which has relation with inventdim)
While i create lines (using catalog items), i need to

copy the header site and warehouse to lines. Also when the header inormaion is edited, the same should

be updated to lines. I need to do this modification in enterprise portal.

Here the header and lines are related to Purchase requisition.

I tried to do changes in datasets but iam unable to do this

Do you have any idea on how this can be acheived

Thanks in advance