Power Platform Dev Weekly #223

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Jul 17, 2024

Welcome to the Power Platform Developers Weekly!

You’ve probably seen the #MVPBuzz all over social media this week - it’s a big week for those who those who get awarded to find out if they have retained their MVP status, so congratulations to all who did - including our very own

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who all retained for 2024-25.

Check out a host of new features and some great blogs in this week’s edition of #PPDevWeekly. Hope you’ll like it.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

June 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop

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🥇 Cover Story

SQL 4 CDS v9.2 Released

by Mark Carrington

Whilst

Mark Carrington

is too shy to put his own post as the cover story, I am not (

Matt Beard

) because this SQL 4 CDS update is nothing short of awesome.

The ability to now ask something like “Who has created the most contact records recently?” and having both the recommendation query to search for AND the results shown to the screen using natural language is incredible and really opens up the world of Copilot wider than within the Power Platform.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Autoincrementing and Deploying Dataverse Plugin Package
by Daryl always-raising-LaBar
Doing the same thing twice. It’s a trigger for a lot of devs, but Daryl’s taken it a step further here by sharing his full solution for the inner dev loop for plugin packages. Just build your solution and have it increment the package version and deploy it for you, no more clicking in the Plugin Registration Tool!

.NET API Implement Multiplexing Strategy
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Performance is always a big consideration when doing any sort of integration with Dataverse, and one way to improve throughput is to multiplex connections (no, not in a bad licensing way!) In this post Temmy shows how to implement a strategy for sharing your integration load across multiple application users.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

5 little known features in Power Apps
by Charles Sexton
Charles takes us through some often forgotten features - in an ever growing platform at such a speed it’s nice to go back and remind ourselves of those golden nuggets and how important they still are..

Security Role Association: The Power Apps Way
by Nati Turtledove
Nati takes a look at the simple(!) Dataverse security model using canvas apps to describe the scenarios, use cases and important things to learn. Nati introduces ways to handle security roles directly using canvas apps and simplify the whole process.

🌎 Power Pages

Power Pages DevTools extension
by Nick Doelman
Nick shares a great tool with us for anyone trying to debug a Power Pages site - this Edge extension makes it super quick to get detailed log messages out of your Liquid code.

😎 Power Automate

Create a Custom Connector For Power Automate & Power Apps
by Priyesh Wagh
Priyesh reminds us, in great depth, how to make a custom connector. Making custom connectors has been around for some time - but as Copilot development comes more and more to the makers, custom connectors are integral to that so it’s always useful to know how do them!