Power Platform Dev Weekly #273

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Aug 06, 2025

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🥇 Cover Story

Have you played Yahtzee? In Power Apps!

by Hardit Bhatia

We’ve seen Lemmings, we’ve seen a motor racing game and so much more - Hardit has now joined the group of legends who have built a complete game in Power Apps!

Lots of effort in this post, including the ability to download it and play it yourself!

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

C# extension to simplify how to get Custom API Input
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Temmy has shared a helper library to debug and help with Custom API’s. Always a great thing to keep in your arsenal for those days when debugging gets tough!

Replacing a model-driven app with an AI-generated custom application
by Alex Schlega
A tenuous link to model-driven apps here I’ll admit but let’s go with it. Alex vibe codes a new app that replaces an old model driven app and talks you through the process here.

Microsoft Dataverse to MS SQL data sync – co-authored with Claude Code
by Alex Shlega
Alex was on the vibe coding train this week and his second post is also included here - how AI and Claude helped him built a WinForms app that copied data from Dataverse to SQL, should you ever want to!

🤖 Copilot

Handling Unintended Queries with AI Builder in Copilot Studio
by Bala Madhusoodhanan
Bala carries on with his AI Builder series and includes full details and examples.