Power Platform Dev Weekly #267
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Thank you for sticking with us as we skipped last weeks newsletter, between the European Power Platform Conference and a post Build cool down, it was a slow news week so we paused for a week to ensure we only bring good quality updates!
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as the poster boy, much to his dispair!Microsoft feature releases and announcements
What’s new in Power Apps: May 2025 (Week 1)
Announcing the AI-Powered Search and Summary Components in Power Pages Component Library (Week 1)
Data Agent Architecture powered by Microsoft Dataverse (Week 1)
Enable Natural Language Search for Lists in Power Pages (Preview) (Week 2)
Enhanced Component Properties, User Defined Functions, and UntypedObjects on the move (Week 2)
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🥇 Cover Story
Reflections from #EPPC25: Building a 10× Future with Autonomous Agents
by Carsten Groth
If you did miss EPPC, Carsten has an awesome post breaking down his key findings in a way that a way that’s easy to follow and in depth in it’s approach. Even if you were in attendance at EPPC, this one is still worth a read and if you weren’t, even more so!
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Using Azure Service Bus Queue to simplify Dataverse Concurrency
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Whilst the title seems a little like an oxymoron, it’s always fun to read blog posts that really take Dataverse and their developers out of the comfort zone and do some cool stuff!
by Phil Kermeen
Phil is the latest to test the recently announced Dataverse MCP server. We’ve been speaking about MCP servers for a while now and they are gaining more and more momentum - Phil shares his thoughts on the MCP services, as well as his understand of MCP.
🤖 Copilot
Copilot Studio: Detect Multiple Entity Types In A Question
by Matthew Devaney
Matthew takes two spots in our Copilot section this week.
In the first of two, Matthew shows how we can handle multiple tables during a conversation flow of Copilot Studio.
Copilot Studio: Upload File To Chat Window In MS Teams
by Matthew Devaney
Finally Matthew handles File Upload through the Agent chat window, analyse said file and ultimately do some super clever processing that opens up all sorts of possibilities.
😎 Power Automate
The Ultimate Way to Handle Power Automate Errors
by David Wyatt
Error handling is an art form and in this post, David is the artist - talking about his tips and advice on proper error handling within Power Automate.
👩💻 Dev to the Core
Plugin Solution Architecture in Dynamics 365: DLL-Based vs Plugin Package-Based Approaches
by Kailash Ramachandran
Whilst the blog post may be a *little* bit AI influenced, the core message of this blog post is useful and worth a read for any developers in the Dataverse space.
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