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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 release we have introduced two new commands, one to list tenant settings and the other to update tenant settings. Imagine as a developer, you wanted to list the current controls put in place by admin in the tenant. Now you can do that using the following command: It the c...
Power Platform Global AI Hack Week 1 Recap
#HackTogether: The Power Platform Global AI Hack! Week 1 Recap and What’s Coming The first full week of the Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether was a lot of fun! We saw some amazing walkthroughs and demos from our talented experts, who showed us how to integrate AI in our Power Platform applications. Now it’s your turn to take that inspiration and put it into your prize-winning solution! Speaking of solutions… Submit! Submit! Submit! This is the last week of the hackathon and you have less than a week to submit your solution. For your submission, you will need to provide a short video (<5 min) demo of ...
Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether Keynote Recap and What’s Coming
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 insightful presentation on how AI can empower developers to create smarter and more intuitive applications. This can result in more personalized and efficient software that can cater to the needs of individual users and tackle big challenges. Watch the hackathon keynote on demand Later in ...
The Public Preview for the Unified Experience is live!
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 through a single sign-on experience where both finance and operations and Dataverse can be managed with no additional setup required. Even if you are doing development of finance and operations apps without leveraging Power Platform, you will find value here. Previously, the d...
Hack Together: The Power Platform AI Global Hack
Are you ready to unleash your creativity and build amazing solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and AI? If so, join us for Hack Together: Power Platform AI Global Hack, a virtual event where you can learn, experiment, and hack together with the new Copilot and AI features in the Power Platform. What is Hack Together? Hack Together is a global online hackathon that runs from September 14th to 28th, 2023. It's open to anyone who wants to explore the possibilities of using AI in the Power Platform, whether you are a beginner, advanced maker, admin or a professional developer - all are welcome! You can join ...
Power Platform Command Line Interface: July Update
Alright all you Advanced Makers and Developers, we have news for you, the new July update is out, and we have made some great new improvements and features based on the feedback provided by you in the GitHub discussions. Let us dive right into what capabilities are in store! New and Updated capabilities PCF updates We have added a new parameter in the `pac pcf push` command and it is `--incremental` which only pushes the files that have changed. We keep track of which files need to update based on the entries in the entity. Figure 1: Incremental flag on PCF push command In addition to this ...
Power Platform as Connected Service for Visual Studio is Generally Available
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 you can combine Visual Studio and Power Platform CLI to build a sample Power App from your API. Start from your ASP.NET Core Web API Project in Visual Studio 2022 17.7 You can use this sample API. If you prefer to create your own project, be sure to: This oper...
Getting Started with Power Platform CLI and Power Pages
In this blog, I will highlight the command group that is part of the Power Platform CLI. This blog is part of a multi-part series on the Power Platform CLI. The following blogs appeared in this series: Overview of the `pac paportal` command group There are multiple commands part of the command group: 📃 List your Power Pages websites The first step when working with Power Pages websites in Power Platform CLI is using the command. This command lists all the Power Pages websites in the environment you are connected to. When there are one or more Power Pages website...
Power Platform Command Line: June Update
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, sometimes you need to make sure those features are enabled before you deploy them. Take the case of PCF controls, before you deploy the solution with a PCF control, you have to make sure that the PCF Control feature is enabled in the target environment before you deploy the ap...