Power Platform Dev Weekly #270

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Jul 16, 2025

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🥇 Cover Story

Ditch Fiddler for Good: A Faster Way to Test PCF Components in Dynamics 365

by David Ovrelid

Fiddler is a great help to speed up the inner dev loop when you’re being a PCF control, but David has gone one step further - is one npm run command all you need now?

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Dataverse Row Level Security
by David Wyatt
Using the feature to separate out record ownership from business units, David shows how we can provide row-level security using a custom field like “region” to specify who can access which records.

Scalable Customization Design in Dataverse : Transaction and Locking Awareness
by Kailash Ramachandran
Transactions are a critical part of making your Dataverse plugins robust - making sure the right operations are done within the transactional part of the plugin pipeline makes sure your data stays consistent in the face of errors, and Kailash shows how this impacts how records are locked in the database and how it affects the scalability of a busy system.

🤖 Copilot

Build & Ship a “Docs Agent” to Microsoft Teams
by Josh Cook
Keep getting questions from people where Microsoft Learn already has the answer? Maybe a custom agent they can ask in Teams might help them help themselves!

😎 Power Automate

Create a Case or a Lead from a marketing form in Customer Insights - Journeys
by Amey Holden
If you’re using Customer Insights - Journeys to host a contact form, you’ll probably get a mix of new leads and support requests from existing customers. In this in-depth article, Amey takes us through the process of setting up the form and a Power Automate flow to either create a lead or case as appropriate.

Dataverse Connector's "Return Full Metadata" Parameter in Power Automate
by Linn Zaw Win
I love any post where someone finds an option in the API and pokes at it to see what it does. Today it’s our own Linn that investigates the “Return Full Metadata” option.

🏋️‍♀️Canvas Apps

Set vs ClearCollect in Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
Pieter goes into detail about the use cases for each of these actions.

🔨 Tools & Components

Flow Conneciotion References XrmToolBox tool
by Tanguy TOUZARD
XrmToolBox originator and overall legend has released another tool, which could save your bacon for those times where you lose your mind with connection references.