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Simon Buxton
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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
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Consuming an external service within F&O

This technique hasn't changed substantially since Dynamics AX 2012. The key difference is that we will need to manually craft the binding. We still need to create a C# project to consume the web service, and then use it as a reference within our F&O project.

The example service is a weather service provided by Open Weather (https://openweathermap.org/). There is no recommendation here. It was simply the first one I found when I searched for weather web services. The aim is to create a recipe that you can use for your web services. The chosen service, in this case, isn't relevant.

When selecting a service to use, we must check the license terms and conditions since not all of them are free to use. Just because the license terms aren't enforced doesn't mean that the service is free to use.
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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
Read more about Simon Buxton