Welcome to the Power Platform Dev Weekly!
With Build not that far behind in the rear view mirror, new previews and announcements are slowing down giving everyone time to process the newer features and maybe, if you’re lucky, get chance to play with them.
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Delegation improvements – Async, UpdateIf, and miscellaneous functions
Run Your Enterprise on Power Platform with New Enterprise Application Templates
Introducing an easier than ever experience to import data from Excel
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🥇 Cover Story
Power Laps
by Scott Durow
Ribbon Workbench? Old news. Lemmings in PowerFx? Been done. Creator Toolkit? Completed it.
It’s time to make a 3D game, in PowerFx - be prepared for school math flashbacks. The legend, Scott Durow, shows how he is still the master of everything Power Apps.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
by Mark Carrington
Elastic tables are here so unsurprisingly not far behind is the latest release of SQL4CDS to add even more support and bridge the gaps even more. A staple of my XrmToolBox tools just got even better.
Create Dataverse Virtual Table from SQL in Azure | Power Platform
by Priyesh Wagh
The fact our top articles for Dataverse are about virtual tables and elastic tables shows how far we’ve come! Priyesh shares his tutorial for SQL server and virtual tables and it’s well worth a look.
[Experimental] Let’s try Dataverse Low-code Plugin (Automated)
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Temmy goes digging into the low code plugins in Dataverse - a fun blog post that contains some in details stack traces for proper developer debugging!
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Power Apps Dataverse Offline Mode For Canvas Apps
by Matthew Devaney
This is a big one! Offline mode in Canvas Apps and Matthew does a fantastic, in depth dive on the feature. Week after week Matthew is in PPDevWeekly and we salute you for the fantastic effort.
Make POST requests towards Microsoft Graph from Power Apps without Power Automate
by Lewis Baybutt
Low Code Lewis is here! Some great insights combining Graph and the Power Platform is some unusual ways.
😎 Power Automate
Power Automate - Switch, Condition and If()
by David Wyatt
David reminds us of some of the logic options available to us within Power Automate and it’s useful to have a reminder. There’s a great “switch” tip in here too!
24 New Verified, 29 New Independent Publisher and 37 Updated Connectors available
Microsoft share the massive new number of connectors available, knocking the count way over the recently celebrated 1,000 milestone.
🌎 Power Pages
Use Power Platform pipelines with Power Pages
by Nick Doelman
Nick revisits an earlier post with a supplementary video about the ALM process and Power Pages.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Performance of the Graph API, REST API and Web Services with SharePoint and Power Automate - Pieter Veenstra
Power Platform Environment Variables - Craig White
🎥 Videos
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