Power Platform Dev Weekly #277

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Oct 01, 2025

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Microsoft feature releases and announcements

Power Platform Community Conference 2025: Technology and community unite to drive innovation
Personal Developer Environments: Secure, governed innovation in Power Platform
Microsoft Power Pages is Generally Available in Singapore Local and South Africa

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🥇 Cover Story

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Congratulations to XrmToolBox!

Not quite a story but a milestone that is worth of top billing - XrmToolBox hits 1,000,000 downloads!

I suspect pretty much everyone reading this post has heard of, used or developed a tool for XrmToolBox and it’s fantastic news it’s broken an incredible 7 figure barrier.

Well done Tanguy - Tanguys post on the milestone can be read here.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

TDS Endpoint Revisited
by Mark Carrington
Nothing says “developer” more than a big red box that says “unsupported from here”! Mark shares his findings on a recent deepdive into the current state of the TDS endpoint with some fascinating new findings.

Your ticket to the future might be your name badge
by Carina M. Claesson
Whilst not dev focussed, Carina from PPWeekly gave a great summary of the recent Nordic Summit - one of the leaders in community events around the world. Events like this really make for a great community and I’d highly recommend giving Carinas blog a read.

😎 Power Automate

Power Platform Alerts -Finding the failures
by Matt Collins-Jones
You can’t beat an article talking about brand new, preview features and once again, MCJ is first off the mark to come and play, learn and share. Very interesting topic and one that will be super useful for some people.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Environment variables in Canvas Apps
by Charles Sexton
As well as being one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, Charles also writes great blog posts and this is no exception. Acting as a nice introduction to Environment Variables, this is the sort of blog post always worth reading so you unlock that piece of functionality when you need it.

Handling Offline/Online with nested Patch functions in Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
Pieter’s article explores how to effectively handle both offline and online data scenarios in Power Apps by leveraging nested Patch functions for seamless data updates.

🌎 Power Pages

Power Pages: Why Blank is Best (Usually)
by Nicholas Hayduk
Most Power Pages projects start with a difficult decision – which template should I use? Power Pages offers many templates, most real-world projects benefit from starting with the Blank template due to its flexibility and cleaner setup.

🤖 Copilot

Creating an Agent with Actions in Azure AI Foundry
by Carl De Souza
Yes, not strictly Copilot but still, most relevant here and certainly such an interesting post that it’s worth a read. Azure AI Foundry is fantastic and whilst Copilot Studio does so much for you, sometimes it’s nice to go under the surface a little more and this is exactly what Carl does here.