Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan created a screencast about the version control options for the next major Ax release. In addition to Visual Sourcesafe, Ax will also support Team Foundation Server and a new source control system in Ax itself.
It looks promising but so was the prospect of Sourcesafe integration for 4.0. Unfortunately it turned out to be only marginally usable. The requirement to have a complete database and AOS setup per developer makes it hard to handle multiple projects or do development at the customer’s site.
The video seems to acknowledge this. Sourcesafe and TFS are clearly positioned as tools for ISVs that make modules. Developing modules is different than doing a customer specific implementation and can more easily incorporate VSS or TFS as part of their toolbox. Although I’m skeptical about this, I really hope the new Morphx VCS will provide a decent source control solution for all of us. Ax needs more tools like that to make good development practices less cumbersome.
How about a follow up post where you review MorphX VCS in Dynamics AX 2009? I would much like to learn what you and others think about it.
Thanks,
Michael
Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to use the Morphx VCS a lot. And as you might have noticed, I also kind of lost track of this blog. I should fix both of those problems 🙂