Power Platform Dev Weekly #295
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Microsoft Build has come and gone in our off week, it was jam-packed with great content, but dont forget to catch some highlights on demand, such as Charles chatting with Chainsmokers. The Book of news, a staple of Build and Ignite, is now Microsoft Build Live. The legendary Lisa Crosbie has a 12 min overview here.
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
AI-Powered Power BI reporting: From design to deployment with agent skills (Preview)
Microsoft Dataverse Plugin: Unleashing Coding Agents on the Enterprise – Microsoft Build 2026
Enhanced Data Model and Bootstrap 5 Now Available for Dynamics 365 Portal Templates
Build Power Pages Sites with AI through Agentic Coding tools, now Generally Available
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🥇 Cover Story
How To Create Copilot Custom UI Widgets In Power Apps
by Matthew Devaney
Text responses can be boring. Learn how Matthew builds interactive, custom UI widgets inside Copilot chat using Power Apps and Dataverse.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Dataverse Web API: Returning Record Data During Create Using Prefer: return=representation
by Nishant Rana
Nishant shows how to retrieve the details of a newly created record without making extra API calls.
Code Apps: What June 2026 Shipped and What's Next
by Dennis Chi
Dev Weekly new comer Dennis has a great overview of the road map of Code Apps with a TL;DR of Mobile play and a preview of a git repo for everything.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Respond to a Power Automate Flow Approval in a Power Apps Custom Page or Canvas App
by Amey Holden
Approval emails can be messy. Amey shows how to build a custom approval interface right inside your Power Apps.
🌎 Power Pages
by Nicholas Hayduk
Bulk editing doesn’t exist out of the box in Power Pages and that’s why Nicholas came up with a clever jQuery snippet to add a multiselect checkbox column to classic lists.
🤖 Copilot
by Craig White
This article by Craig explains how to utilise the built-in evaluations feature to automate the testing of AI agents for accuracy and safety.
How to Set Up a Copilot Studio Agent Using Dataverse MCP Across Environments
by Arild Aarnes
Configuring a Copilot Studio agent to securely connect with a Dataverse Model Context Protocol server across environments requires precise setup of Entra ID registrations and cross-environment security roles.
😎 Power Automate
Trigger a flow when a Power Automate Approval is complete (Accepted or Rejected)
by Amey Holden
Discover how to instantly trigger actions the moment an approval is completed in Dataverse, eliminating the need to wait for the standard Power Automate response block.
🚀 PCF & Custom Pages
Open Custom Page For Multiple Selected Records In A View Or SubGrid
by Megan V. Walker
Learn how to pass a comma-separated list of record IDs from a grid or subgrid to open a single custom page for multiple selected items simultaneously.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
What Are Agent Skills? Build a Power Platform Skill
by Rajeev Pentyala
Master the art of extending your AI assistant’s capabilities by building customized Agent Skills that can autonomously read and analyze your Power Platform solution files.
👩💻 Dev to the Core
The new Power Platform Pro-Code Era: Code Apps vs Power Pages SPA
by Riccardo Gregori
The evolution of pro-code development on the Power Platform is showcased by Riccardo as he compares the infrastructure, authentication models, and developer experiences of Power Apps Code Apps and Power Pages Single-Page Applications.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Inside Built-In and Custom Copilot UI Widgets powered by Power Apps - Diana Birkelbach
Customise Double Opt-In Confirmation Email {{OptedInPurposeTopic}} - Customer Insights - Journeys - Amey Holden
Using Event Templates With Realtime In Customer Insights Journeys - Megan V. Walker
Create a Customer Insights Journeys Overview Page for Contacts - Megan V. Walker
How to Integrate Application Insights with Copilot Studio for Better AI Monitoring- Inogic
Calling Dataverse Actions and Functions from Power Apps Code Apps - Inogic
🎥 Videos
🔊 Podcasts
In this podcast episode, Ulrikke and Nick discuss the latest community updates, AI agent integration, and Power Platform advancements surrounding the Dynamics Minds 2026 conference.
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