Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook

Chapter 6. Integration with Microsoft Office

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating an Excel file
• Reading an Excel file
• Creating a Word document from a template
• Creating a Word document with repeating elements
• Creating a Microsoft Project file
• Sending an e-mail using Outlook

Introduction

In most of the companies where Dynamics AX is used, people use Microsoft Office Suite too. The new Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft Office is now even closer—similar navigation, look and feel, out of the box integration, and so on.

In this chapter, we will pay special attention to the Microsoft Office applications, such as Excel, Word, Project, and Outlook. We will learn how to create and read various Office documents that could be used for exporting/importing ...