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.
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server Environment variables which will be able to support your Power Apps deployments as part of an ALM Process
In this post, I will go over the steps of building a Copilot agent and publishing it to Microsoft Teams so that users can ask the agent questions directly from within Teams.
On May 7th, 2024 Microsoft announced the General Availability of blocking unmanaged customizations in your environments. This new feature will prevent users from making unmanaged changes in the test and production environments as well as restrict the import of unmanaged solutions into production.
Until recently, there would be a certain subset of functions were you would need to enter the names of the column within double quotes. Starting with the latest version of Canvas Studio (version 3.24042), there will be a syntax change as to how the column names will be displayed within function arguments.
