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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...
Power Platform Developer Tools May Update
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 and it will update for you. The changes will also be available in the Visual Studio Code Extension and GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps tools as well. What's new We have a few new things that we have provided in this release. Creating Service Principal for CI/CD In the past if you wanted to create a SPN for running your CI/CD pipeline you had to go to and use a PowerShell script provided on MSLearn o...
Annotating Power Platform Checker results
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 Solution Checker results and how to annotate them in your pipelines. How can we quickly identify new issues exposed by the Solution Checker? If we are in the fortunate position of having zero issues then new issues are easy to identify. For more than a handful...
Power Platform Developer Tools April Update
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 windows, it now uses the Web Account Manager, and uses the credentials you have used to sign on. You can still use ‘pac auth create’ to create different profiles, but if you use your AAD credentials to login to your windows workstation, Power Platform CLI now uses the crede...
Announcing our Java + Power Apps Workshop!
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 on a mission to create as many samples, workshops, and end to end solutions as possible to showcase the ability of the Power Platform to empower every developer, on every level of stack to build the solutions they need in a fast, collaborative and secure environment. Behind the ...