Power Platform Developer Blog

Unlock Retail Productivity with Power Platform and Dataverse

January 12, 2024 Jan 12, 2024 01/12/24

Nirav Shah

This year at the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Big Show we will highlight how Power Platform can help unlock productivity and improve customer experiences in your retail shopping experiences. Store associates can face many challenges, including dealing with backorders and stockouts on items. Often, this is caused by data being scattered...

Power Platform Command Line Interface: October Updates

December 8, 2023 Dec 8, 2023 12/8/23

ShafQat Nizar

We’re excited to announce the new updates released in Power Platform CLI October updates. There are a number of improvements that we have made for you, our developer community, and we want to share with you to help overcome roadblocks and make process enhancements. The team is thankful for your continued support. Canvas app download In our...

Power Platform CLI – Simplifying authentication profiles

December 6, 2023 Dec 6, 2023 12/6/23

Marcel Ferreira

Good day developers! Power Platform CLI is a one stop command line interface to interact with Power Platform - aka PAC CLI. We have 3 different kinds of authentication profiles. In the version 1.16 of PAC CLI, we started to deprecate the parameter and since then, UNIVERSAL is the default profile kind. In this post, I will explain why we ...

Build your next application on Dataverse – now with hyperscale support for any enterprise data

December 4, 2023 Dec 4, 2023 12/4/23

Srikumar Nair

Dataverse, Microsoft’s modern and scalable business application platform in the cloud, enables developers to build enterprise-grade applications at hyperscale. Today, Dataverse encompasses over 3.5 million Azure SQL databases and leverages Azure SQL Hyperscale to support up to 100 TB per individual database--with rapid scale up, rapid scale ...

The Visual Studio 2022 add-in is now available for Dynamics 365 for Financials and Operations.

November 7, 2023 Nov 7, 2023 11/7/23

Peter Villadsen

TL;DR: The Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Visual Studio add-in is now available for use in Visual Studio 2022 (VS 2022). Visual Studio 2022 is the first 64-bit version of Visual Studio. We wanted to take advantage of the stability it brought (and set us up for the future) and this gave us the opportunity to rework and rethink some of...

VHDs and CHEs with One box deployments available now (VHD FinandOps10.0.37)

November 7, 2023 Nov 7, 2023 11/7/23

Peter Villadsen

TL;DR We have published updated virtual machines (VHD) and cloud hosted environments (CHE) containing the latest bits, scheduled to be released in the first week of November 2023. The new VHD Developer One-box image is based on Windows Server 2022 Datacenter. The image contains both the Visual Studio (VS) 2019 and VS 2022 versions (in the ...

Power Platform Command Line Interface: September Update

October 27, 2023 Oct 27, 2023 10/27/23

ShafQat Nizar

We are so happy to share new updates released in Power Platform CLI September update. There are a number of improvements that we want to share with our community to help them unblock, such as stage-and-upgrade solution import, create a developer environment on behalf-of, data import with multiple connections, and such. Also, I am excited to ...

Announcing the HackTogether: Power Platform Global AI Hack Winners

October 24, 2023 Oct 24, 2023 10/24/23

April Dunnam

We’re excited to announce the winners of HackTogether: The Power Platform Global AI Hack What is #HackTogether? In this HackTogether we got the opportunity to see the power of AI Copilots in the Power Platform. We learned from advocates and other experts about Copilots, AI Builder, using Azure OpenAI service, and we even got a tutorial ...

Power Platform Global AI Hack Wrap Up

October 11, 2023 Oct 11, 2023 10/11/23

Shavonna Jackson, April Dunnam

The Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether concludes, but your AI adventure is just beginning! We did it! We rocked the Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether and had a blast! We witnessed some awesome walkthroughs and demos from our brilliant experts, who taught us how to unleash the power of AI in our Power Platform solutions. You learned, ...

Announcing the Power Platform solutions with AI and Copilot Learning Path

October 2, 2023 Oct 2, 2023 10/2/23

Gomolemo Mohapi

The Power Platform Advocacy Team is pleased to announce the release of the Create Power Platform solutions with AI and Copilot learning path published on Microsoft Learn. This learning path introduces you to creating Power Platform solutions with Copilot to speed up development time and add AI functionality to make your solutions more ...