Computer-using agents (CUAs) now deliver more secure UI at scale. When CUAs where introduced last year, Microsoft introduced their capabilities which allowed AI to see, understand and act across web and desktop application, the same as a person would. One of the drawbacks from the community was that the place that the agents would not scale was authentication.
For a few years now, the Xrm.Navigation.navigateTo command has been available to allow us to display forms, views, custom pages or web resources inline or as a dialog in Model-driven apps. Now, generative pages are added to that list.
The Power Automate designer had a single User Experience for many years, until about 2 years ago, Microsoft released a new version of the designer with added functionality. You would have to opt in to use the new designer and the flow would allow you to edit it in the Classic or New Interface.
On February 8th, Microsoft announced the General Availability of Single Page Applications (SPAs) for Power Pages. Starting with version 9.8.1.x and later user will be able to build modern, client-side rendering web sites using React, Angular or Vue and deploy them directly to a Power Pages web site using the Power Platform Command Line Interface (CLI).
Today, February 5th, the Microsoft Power Platform team announced the General Availability of Code Apps in Power Apps. This new functionality allows developers to build custom applications within their Power Apps environments.
Recently, while working on a project that needed to get metadata information for different entities, I decided to build a set of PCF controls that would provide me the functionality that I was looking for. There was already a set of controls available, but these were created a while back before Fluent UI virtual controls were really a thing, and with the capabilities of Github Copilot in VS Code, building these controls made the process much simpler.
If you have worked throughout your career in multiple industries including government and are trying to build a Power App for your governments clients that should run on the mobile or desktop client, you might have encountered some connection issues and errors that will not allow you to connect.
Have you ever written a Azure DevOps pipeline for the Power Platform and everything works as expected until you reach the Command Line Script to push your changes to your Azure DevOps Repo?
On February 18th, 2025 Microsoft announced the public preview of the data exploration agent for Model driven apps. This new agent provides the ability to find records using complex filters using Copilot and Natural language to describe what data you are looking for.
A few days ago Microsoft announced the creation and use of function in Microsoft Dataverse (currently in preview). Functions use Power Fx to execute a set of commands within Dataverse that run on the server-side.
