Power Platform Dev Weekly #281

Nov 26, 2025

Welcome to the Power Platform Developers Weekly!

Last week was Microsoft Ignite, a chance to see what’s new and what’s coming soon, and this year didn’t disappoint! I’m still finding plenty to catch up on with all the recorded sessions online, but the big news for Power Platform was the new vibe-coding experience at vibe.powerapps.com. Go and give it a try!

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🥇 Cover Story

Vibe Coding a Power App the Pro way with Code Apps

by David Wyatt

Long gone are the days when Power Platform meant either Model Driven Apps or Canvas Apps. One of the recent additions we haven’t seen much of yet are Code Apps, and here David walks through the steps of setting one up and making use of those connectors that differentiate them from writing any other React app.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Generate a Dataverse ERD for Azure Dev Ops Wiki
by Matthew Collinge
Everyone loves an entity-relationship diagram to understand the data model when they come onto a project, but no-one seems to enjoy creating them. There are some tools in XrmToolBox to create them, but if you’re storing your solutions in DevOps this is a neat way to publish your diagrams right alongside your code.

How to: Fix WebResources Layout in Dataverse Dashboards
by Riccardo Gregori
WebResources might not be the latest cool thing, but they can still do a great job at presenting information clearly in your dashboards. But what if the dashboard layout insists on messing up your beautifully crafted resources with ugly borders and sizing? Riccardo show show you have more control through the dashboard’s XML than you might imagine.

Model Driven App: disable “Open in Excel Online” button
by Riccardo Gregori
Another solution where old meets new. Extending the XML editing theme, this solution lets you hide the “Open in Excel Online” button to avoid users accessing it for data imports, even though you can’t disable it in Ribbon Workbench or the modern commanding editor.

🤖 Copilot

How To Use Multi-Agent Orchestration In Copilot Studio
by Matthew Devaney
Multi-agent workflows were the promise over the past year or so, and in this in-depth article Matt brings it to life with a step-by-step, real-world example.

Prompt Optimization for AI Builder: Lessons from TOON vs Text
by Bala Madhusoodhanan
My LinkedIn feed has been full of people promoting TOON as a more efficient format of passing data to an AI prompt, but it’s great to see this article from Bala really break it down and present some hard numbers.

😎 Power Automate

The Scalability of Office Scripting in Microsoft Excel
by Pieter Veenstra
Part of architecting any solution is understanding the limitations of each component, and here Pieter lists some of the issues you might hit if you’re trying to run Office Scripts at scale in Power Automate.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Citizen Development Is Dead. Building Just Became Personal.
by Ben den Blanken
A very thoughtful piecce from Ben about what the “Low Code is dead” headline from the Power Platform Conference a few weeks ago really means for citizen devs, makers and IT pros.

Power Platform Dataflows impacted by DLP policies
by Tomasz Poszytek
Resolving a DLP issue is like a detective story. Tomasz takes us on his journey from generic error message to actually identifying the offending connection to be able to safely apply minimal permissions in the policy.

Enable Navigation for Customer Insights – Journeys form
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
One of the things I love about Model Driven Apps is their UI consistency. So when the Customer Insights - Journeys forms went and hid some standard parts of the UI, Temmy fought back with JavaScript!