AX 2012 AIF

Some quotes from technet:

"The AIF framework has been updated to enable developers to expose X++ business logic as WCF services. ASMX Web services have been replaced with WCF services enabling new functionality such as message encryption."

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012: Programming Model Improvements - Part 1

Here are a some info from a lecture on improvements in Ax2012 programming part 1. You will find the complete and free video (1 hr 15 min) presentation at Microsoft Partner Training web (BTW: You will need an account there):

Course description: The investment in tooling and framework improvements for the developer is vast. In this session see a snapshot of the investments in three key areas: Data access, the X++ language, and in the Services programming model. Data access abstractions like Relationship Modeling, Table Inheritance, Date Effectivity, Unit of Work and improved Caching will be covered. Also covered will be the X++ features of Eventing based customization and strongly typed interop from .NET to X++ that help you develop robust customizations for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Finally we will provide an overview of Servic It's about writing less code and writing better code!es programming model that is geared towards opening up development for Dynamics AX to a whole variety of application platforms, including mobile platforms via standards compliant web services.

Screenshots from the videopresentation (c) 2011 Microsoft

Ax2012

I just installed and configured the VirtualBox from Oracle and the Dynamics AX 2012 demo after these instructions. It worked great, so now I have a working AX2012 test and training setup.