Where to start with a webportal/shop connected to Dynamics AX 2009

Question

I've the opportunity to do a project with Dynamics AX 2009 and am now investigating the possibilities of creating a ASP.NET website/application that interacts with AX 2009. I’ve been searching a bit and found some video’s and info, but I can’t find some actual API/Webservice documentation or tutorials to start with.

Does anyone have some pointers or links where to start to, for example, do the following:

• Retrieve / update customer details
• Retrieve invoices for a customer
• Retrieve products + prices (customer specific)
• Create an order

Answer 1

Ax has Enterprise Portal for such purposes, but you can use business connector and write ASP.NET part from scratch

Answer 2

You can acomplish all this with AX Enterprise Portal:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa855178.aspx

Or you can use the .NET Bussines Connector (.NET Framework) to do the work in your own .NET application. This is the namespace:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa493468%28AX.10%29.aspx

Those are starting points to look for more information. There are lots of pages in MSDN about the two posibilities.