Update Product Images in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

Introduction:
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 contains a helper class that can be used to attach images to a product. The images can either be a location on file system or hosted somewhere on web. To upload a product's image using X++ in Dynamics Ax 2012, you can use the following code snippet

Code Snippet:

    EcoResProductImageManagement        ecoResProductImageManagement;
    RefRecId    productRecId;

    //EcoResProductImageManagement class is helper class for image management
    ecoResProductImageManagement = EcoResProductImageManagement::construct();
   
    //Assign respective Document Type Id, URL incase the image location is Web or File, if the iamge is stored in file system
    ecoResProductImageManagement.parmDocuTypeId('URL');
       
    //The image location is provided by a url path or file system path and then define the actual location of the image file
    ecoResProductImageManagement.parmIsUrlPath(true);
    ecoResProductImageManagement.parmImage("http://sampleimage.com/300442.JPG", '', EcoResProductImageUsage::External, true);
   
    //Details of the product to which image needs to be assigned
    ecoResProductImageManagement.parmRefRecId(productRecId);
    ecoResProductImageManagement.parmRefTableId(tablenum(InventTable));
    ecoResProductImageManagement.parmDataAreaId(curext()); 
   
    //execute the process, it will assign the image to the provided product
    ecoResProductImageManagement.submit();