October 6, 2010 in Blog, Dynamics AX by Amer

Saudi OpenDoor Event in Saudi Arabia, Steve Ballmer is Coming to Saudi!

Microsoft OpenDoor is the largest Microsoft technical event in Saudi Arabia during Fiscal Year 2011. The keynote speaker for this event will be Microsoft CEO “Steve Ballmer”. Open Door is a 3-days conference (2-days in Riyadh city on Nov 2/3, 1-day in Jeddah city on Nov 7). The OpenDoor event is designed to attract more than 2200 TDMs, IT technical professionals and developers in Saudi Arabia. The event consists of 3 different tracks: one for IT professionals, one for developers, and one for technical Managers. The event’s main theme will be “Transitioning to the cloud & technology roadmap”, and it will cover various Microsoft technologies in cloud computing, IW, core infrastructure, database, client, in addition application platform and tools. Subject matter experts from Microsoft and top local industry experts will be speaking at the event. A major highlight of this big event will be the Microsoft partners’ expo where top Microsoft partners show their latest solutions and offerings in the Saudi market.

Following is a brief about the main tracks that will be run during this event:

• General Track: 3 keynotes, 2 closing sessions
• IT Professional Track: 11 breakout sessions with deep technical demos for IT technical professionals for the full duration of event
• Developer Track: 11 breakout sessions with deep technical demos for IT technical professionals for the full duration of event
• Technical Managers Track: 10 IT management and strategy sessions during 2nd day of the event in Riyadh, and during Jeddah event day
• Partners Expo: Sponsoring partners will be demonstrating and showing their local solutions/offerings in the market for the full duration of the event

June 20, 2010 in Blog, Dynamics AX by Amer

Arabic Help Files for Dynamics AX 2009

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If you don’t have the Arabic help files of Dynamics AX you could download them from here:

To install the downloaded file to your environment, you have to get it copied to all the clients that needs to access the help files in an Arabic version. To get that, do the following:

1. Download the files
2. Unzip the folder in order to to get the “AR” folder
3. Copy the unzipped folder in each client into: <<Installation folder>>Microsoft Dynamics AX50ClientBinHelp

By this you will be able to read the help files in the Arabic version.

And of course, do not forget to turn the Help language in the User Options form into AR!

Here we are

December 22, 2009 in Blog, Dynamics AX by Amer

Hijri date in Dynamics AX

In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, Hirji calendar (the Islamic calendar) is not yet supported although Hirji date is there in the background of Dynamics AX 2009!

To enable the Hirji Calendar, you should modify some X++ code in the User Options form. To do so, go to: SysUserSetup –> Methods –> run and change the following blue code into the red:

Enabeling Hijri Calendar in User Options form in X++

  By doing this, you will have a drop down list in the User Options shown in the General tab like the following:

Hijri date in User Options form

With this options, you could clearly understand that Microsoft is putting something to enable the Hijri calendar. I have done some testing over this options. It looks that they’re using a middleware to convert the “actual” Gregorian date that is in the database so the user see the data in Hijri format. Unfortunately, I couldn’t complete the testing with successful results… it started to get me weird results. That’s why Microsoft is not yet supporting it.

Till Microsoft supports it, you could use a very easy to use function in the SQL server: convert(datetime,’12-22-2009′,102), 131)  

To solve the Hirji date problem, you could create a class with two methods:  

1. One that takes a “date”  and returns a Hirji date after calling this SQL method: select convert(varchar,convert(datetime,’12-22-2009′,102), 131)  –try to run this in SQL Server to see the result. 
2. Other that takes a Hijri date in an str format, and returns a date by executing this SQL code:  select convert(datetime,’22-01-1417′, 131) –try to run this in SQL Server to see the result

 By this, you could have the ability to show the user a StringEdit control that uses edit moeth to write a Hirji date and you save the result of conversion in the normal Gregorian date, like this:

Edit method to show Hirji date from Gregorian date

This is the result:

Hiji StringEdit control and DateEdit control

December 21, 2009 in Blog, Dynamics AX by Amer

Number to Text in ARABIC

In my last session in GDC ’09, Integrating Dynamics AX with External Systems, I have demonstrated how you easily could reference you managed code assembly inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and use it in X++ through CLR Interoperability functionality.

And to demonstrate CLR Interoperability, one of the examples was creating a managed code a dll library in Visual Studio .NET 2008. The library I created contained a function that converts numbers (come through parameters) to Arabic text. It looks that this small function attracted some of the attendees, they requested it from me by the end of the session.

And here it is available to be downloaded. I have put it in a dll project that you could immediately use.