Power Platform Developer Blog

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Streamline your solution development with the Power Platform CLI: Create a solution from scratch

In this blog, you will learn more about using the Power Platform CLI together with Power Platform Solutions. In the previous post, I focused on installing the Power Platform CLI, creating the auth profile and switching environments. In this blog, the solution command group is the superstar! This blog is part of a multi-part series on the ...