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Announcing a new Learn module: Use service principal authentication in custom connectors
Connectors are one of the superpowers of the Microsoft Power Platform. They link the Power Platform to a vast array of external services and applications. Over 1200 connectors are available now out of the box. But - what if the API you want to connect to doesn't have an out of the box connector? Or the existing connector doesn't do what you need? Or your company has custom APIs that they want to use with the Power Platform? APIs change all the time and that means connectors might not have the newest features. With custom connectors, you can create your own connector that connects to an API. You have control over...
The Unified Development Environment is GA!
Overview We are proud to announce that the Unified Developer Experience for Finance and Operations apps (colloquially known as UDE) is now generally available for all customers. As you may know, UDE is both the next step in the app development experience for Finance and Operations, and a powerful enabler for leveraging the value provided by Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. Many of the features provided by both Microsoft Dataverse and Finance and Operations are now seamlessly managed in a single sign-on experience that will replace the current LCS experience. Even if you are doing development of fi...
Announcing the Podcast Copilot with Azure OpenAI Service, .NET, and Power Platform Workshop
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 empowers you to create solutions in a fast, secure, and compliant fashion. Now with the rise of AI, organizations are moving quickly to embrace AI in order to usher in a new wave of growth and value creation. Introducing the Podcast Copilot with Azure OpenAI Service, .NET, and Po...
Create multilingual copilots with the Power Platform CLI and Microsoft Copilot Studio
A while ago, it became possible to create multilingual copilots in Microsoft Copilot Studio. It's easy to enable the setting and have multiple languages in your copilot, but do you know how to translate your copilot into a different language? In this blog, I will show you how it can be done! This blog is part of a multi-part series on the Power Platform CLI. The following blogs appeared in this series: 🤖 Create a copilot First things first: let's create a copilot by using the creation dialog. In this case, I'm using the conversational boosting capabilities, but this is not necessa...
Unlock Retail Productivity with Power Platform and Dataverse
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 across multiple enterprise systems and data sources. It is nearly impossible to identify and mitigate risks with these challenges. Using Microsoft Dataverse and Power Platform to unify data, you can equip store associates with solutions that enable them to be knowledgeable in...
Power Platform Command Line Interface: October Updates
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 previous release of Power Platform CLI, we had shared updates related to the and for your .msapp file. We are continuing to improve this process but now having an additional property to extract your .msapp file (Canvas application) to a specific folder. A developer can us...
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 have different authentication profile kind, what is the intention of each type and what kind of profile you should use. 💡 What is an authentication profile? Before you can create environments on Power Platform admin center, or create apps on Power Apps, you need to authentic...
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 out, and high availability. At Ignite, we announced Dataverse Link to Fabric, which enables low-code developers to activate enterprise data at any scale. We are happy to announce general availability for bulk operation APIs, improving data integration throughput and supporting...
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 our code. Benefits One of the big benefits of adopting this new 64-bit architecture is that it solves many of the issues that we have seen in debugging scenarios. Some of our packages are very big, and the memory pressure caused by loading the symbol files were causing ...