#AX7SERIES: Some basic terminologies and concepts

Terminologies and Concepts

In this post, we provide high level definitions for some basic concepts for AX7 Development. Not all of these concepts are new, so it will be a piece of cake for all AX developers.

This post will be used as a reference post for the next posts coming in  #AX7SERIES

Elements: 

Any AOT element like form or table (similar to AX2012)

Projects: 

Logical grouping of AOT Elements (similar to AX2012)

Models:  

Grouping of elements representing distributable software solution. One element can only exist in one model, not the other. Design time concept

Packages: 

New concept in AX 7. Deployment unit. Contains one or more models. Can be exported to file which can be deployed on other environments like staging or production