Power Platform Developer Blog

Insights, how-tos and updates for building low code solutions with the Power Platform

Announcing the Livestream Series – Let’s Learn Power: A Real-life AI + Power Platform Use Case

Unlocking Value with the Power Platform For years now, the Power Platform has been a low code tool that unlocks value across your business by accelerating application & automation development to meet business demand faster. Whether you’re a professional developer, an IT admin, business analyst, or a non-technical employee, low code ...

Power Platform CLI – Simplifying authentication profiles

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

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.

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)

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Power Platform Command Line Interface: August Update

We are delighted to announce our august update for the Power Platform command line. There are quite a few things we are showing in this release based on popular feedback from you, the community. The development team, the PM team and I are thankful for your continued support. Updates to update tenant settings and list tenant settings In this ...