AIF Service Document Schemas

One way to find schemas for the AIF services is to

• Go into the AOT
• Expand Forms
• Right mouse click on the AifService node and choose Open
• Find the service you need like CustCustomerService and click on "Service Operations"
• Click on "Parameter Schema"
• Then "View Schema"

Certainly better than hunting around the internet for an example.

Trivial AX2012 AIF

Well I need to start getting up to speed with a migration from AX4 and BizTalk 2006 to AX2012 and AIF.

Microsoft have kindly provided a white paper which gives the basics for getting a sales order into AX.

At the moment that's going to be the largest volume of data I'll need to process.

Luckily I found someone had already ironed out the gotchas for the white paper, saving a bit of time.

Once they were out the way it seems a more flexible way to get data in and out and if you've experience of AIF the terminology is familiar in 2012.

I keep seeing references to WCF in documents and in AX which leads me to think it's WCF "under the hood" driving the messages.