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Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether Keynote Recap and What’s Coming

September 20, 2023 Sep 20, 2023 09/20/23
April Dunnam
Last week we launched The Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether – a virtual hackathon all about using AI in the Power Platform. Here’s what happened last week and what’s still to come. Week 0 Recap Last week, we kicked off the virtual hackathon with a keynote by Ryan Cunningham (Vice President, Power Apps). Ryan gave an ...

The Public Preview for the Unified Experience is live!

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23
Peter Villadsen
Overview The unified developer experience for finance and operations apps is both the next step in the app development experience, and a powerful enabler for leveraging the value provided by Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. The functionality provided by both finance and operation apps and Microsoft Dataverse are now provided ...

Power Platform as Connected Service for Visual Studio is Generally Available

August 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023 08/11/23
Marcel Ferreira
Good day developers! During Microsoft Build 2023 we announced the capability of creating Custom Connectors from within Visual Studio to quickly build a front-end for your API using Microsoft Power Apps. I'm thrilled to announce this capability is now generally available in Visual Studio 2022 17.7. I will take this opportunity to show how ...

Power Platform Command Line: June Update

July 22, 2023 Jul 22, 2023 07/22/23
Kartik Kanakasabesan
A new month, and a new update for the Power Platform CLI. We are delighted to bring you all a new set of capabilities to help improve your developer experience with Power Platform, so let us get into it. New Capabilities Ability to list and update the settings of an environment. As most of you deploy applications to various environments, ...

Power Platform Developer Tools May Update

June 19, 2023 Jun 19, 2023 06/19/23
Kartik Kanakasabesan
We are delighted to announce the availability of the May Update for the Power Platform Developer tools. If you are using the stand-alone command line on your MacOS, Linux, and Windows machine, you can now just do dotnet tool update -g Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI.Tool and it will update for you. The changes will also be available in the Visual ...

Annotating Power Platform Checker results

May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 05/25/23
authorsDaniel Laskewitz, Phil Cole
In this first guest blog, it is my pleasure to introduce a blog written by Phil Cole about annotating Power Platform Checker Results. Phil is Senior Consultant at TechLabs London and is a community star who has written lots of amazing blogs on Power Platform topics, like Connectors, Power Fx, ALM and more. This blog is all about the ...

Power Platform Developer Tools April Update

May 22, 2023 May 22, 2023 05/22/23
Kartik Kanakasabesan
We are delighted to announce our latest update for the Power Platform Developers tools and Power Platform Command line. Yes, you are right we had an update last month, but we did not blog about it, so we are going to make it up in this announcement, so let us get going. pac auth create single sign-on on Windows Pac auth create is optional on...

Announcing our Java + Power Apps Workshop!

May 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 05/18/23
Gomolemo Mohapi
Yes, you’ve read the title correctly. We now have a brand new self-led Java + Power Apps workshop. This workshop highlights the collaborative approach of professional and citizen developers rapidly building solutions together. With a Java with Spring Boot REST API backend and a Power Apps frontend, you get the best of both worlds. We’re ...