Calculation of Date Time Difference in Formula Columns (Preview)

Formula Columns have been in Public Preview since September 2022 and are supposed to be released to GA in March 2023 as part of the Power Platform 2022 release wave 2 plan. I have been working with formula columns for some time now, and although in preview have found this to be not only a great substitution to Calculated columns, but also provides much added functionality.

Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services Trial Failure

When we need to create Proof of Concepts, test products that we need to implement for our projects and or provide demos to our clients, at many times consultants and even partners use demo environments and products provided by Microsoft (and other organizations) in order to assist them in these cases.

Microsoft announces the General Availability (GA) of Power Pages

Last week on 10/12 at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Power Pages. Microsoft Power Pages joined the Power Platform family of products earlier this year as a standalone product. For those who are familiar with Power Apps Portals, the two products are not in yet in parity, and I assume that in time Power Apps Portals will be phased out and completely replaced by Power Pages.

Merging Solutions from multiple instances

Have you worked on a project with multiple teams where you need to update the changes from all instances into a single integration instance? There are multiple options for doing this, some manually and some automated, but in this post I will discuss a little hack (using Azure DevOps for deployment) that can be used to deploy the separate solutions into a single solution in the target instance.

Power Apps Named Formulas

Last Friday, September 16th, Microsoft introduced Name Formulas to Power FX. Named Formulas, and old concept that has been part of Microsoft Excel for a long time has now been brough to Power FX (currently experimental only). With Named Formulas we can simplify app initialization, reduce load time and logic and improve overall app maintenance

Dependent Assemblies with Power Platform Tools

In late July, Microsoft announced the preview of Dependent Assemblies, which would allow the ability to register individual assemblies, and upload a nuget package that contains both the plugin assembly and the dependent assembly. Previously, the only way this was available was the use of the ILMerge tool to manually merge dependent assemblies.

Dependent Assemblies with Plugin Registration Tool

In late July, Microsoft announced the preview of Dependent Assemblies, which would allow the ability to register individual assemblies, and upload a nuget package that contains both the plugin assembly and the dependent assembly. Previously, the only way this was available was the use of the ILMerge tool to manually merge dependent assemblies.

Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio

The Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio provide the ability to quickly create, debug and deploy plugings. There are some other capabilities that are still currently in preview, such as the deployment of custom workflow activities, web resources and other integration components.