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.
This week at Ignite, Microsoft introduced the next generation of Microsoft Power Apps. This means the introduction of a new experience that makes building apps as intuitive as explaining an idea, and a seamless integration between apps and agents. It also allows the ability to host and manage all of the apps in a single place.
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.
Side Panes in Model Driven Apps have been around for some time now, and we have used them for showing Entity Lists, Entity Records and web resources. In addition to the standard types that we can display in the side panes we can also display custom pages and PCF controls
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.
This has been a feature that has been requested for as long as I can remember using Microsoft Dynamics CRM and the Power Platform, and finally it is here.
In a recent project a needed to create a PCF control, to display a notification within the form. The MessageBar Fluent UI v9 component provided the functionality that we were looking for, so we decided to go ahead and take advantage of that. The PCF Builder extension for Visual Studio …
