Difference between AX 4.0 Vs AX 2009(5.0) Vs AX2012

Design Difference Between AX 4.0 Vs AX (2009)5.0 Vs AX 2012

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S.No	AX 4.0	AX5.0	AX2012
1	Normal Navigation Pane	Normal Navigation Pane	Redesigned Navigation Pane which can be access more Modules with one Click
2	Status Bar	Status Bar	Status Bar can be Personalized by each User(Tools->Options)
3		List Page When the form template is set to list page, the form can’t ve the code running on the client.	Shared List page  This is displayed in both the client and the EP.
4		No Action Pane Strip. Available in main Master forms.	Here implemented for all the forms
5		NO Fact Boxes	Fact Boxes Provides info related to the record displayed in right side of the Purch table form(EX)..Types: info part,form part,cue parts
6		No Preview Panes	Preview Pane displays the more info abt the selected record in a list page.
7		No Fast Tabs	Fast Tab: New vertical presentation style where lots of data can be displayed in a highly accessible way 1)More than one tab page can be displayed at a time       2)Display of summary fields without being expanded.
8		No Document View	Document view is introduced into client forms to provide developers and users the ability to have a read-only representation of data that reduces the risk of accidental changes. ViewEditMode Property at design time.
9		Preview- A Tooltip was displayed that provided the user a one – or two filed preview of that record.	EnHanced Previews – more visible available on any grid, also as specified by developers.
10		Active X Control: ability to extend the user interface. IN AX 2012 AOT > New Form > Right click Design > New Control >ManagedHost	Managed control Host: Support for external controls is extended by adding support for both .net managed controls and WPF controls
11		Forms used to save as a whole object	now they save at child elements levels, like Tables and Classes. This reduces metadata conflicts when merging solutions into a single layer.
12		Not Support	Forms Support exporting changes to a single layer such as Tables and classes.
13		Not Present	The cueGroup and infoPart model concepts are use granular meta data and layers export such as tables and classes.
14		The Filter-by-Grid ,Filter-by-Field, Field-by-Value, Filter-by- Selection, and Advanced Filter dialog boxes support filtering on outer joined fields by using the ON clause	The Filter-by-Grid, Filter-by-Field, Field-by-Value, Filter-by-Selection, and Advanced Filter dialog boxes support filtering on outer joined fields by using the WHERE clause instead of the ON clause.
15		Help System	A new Help system is used to supply Help documentation for the application and development workspaces. No compilation, rebuilding, or AOT deployments are necessary to add Help documentation
16	No Global Address Book All the data associated to an entity's address was stored in the entity table.	Company specific Global Address Book(Common Repository). Addresses are still stored in the entity tables, it was synchronized to the global address book tables The address info was still stored in the entity tables, it was synchronized to the global address book tables.	Global Address Book defined for global data. They are defined one time for the system and not one time for each company. The transition is complete by removing the synchronization and duplicate fields from the entity tables. Address data is stored in the common address book tables.

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