Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #29

🥇 Cover Story

Matt explores some lesser known but powerful functions that will help you build your apps. He will show you practical ways to use these functions: COALESCE, SIN, UNGROUP, SEQUENCE, TRACE, JSON and GUID.

👍 Power Platform

Are you using GitHub as your code repository? If so then read about GitHub Actions that will help you automate your deployments with ease.

💎 Model Driven Apps & CDS

Carl shows us how you can replace ClientGlobalContext with mock-xrm.

Andrew was working on the plugin where logic had to work differently depending on the type of the instance, and he explains us how he achieved it.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Responsive apps provide a much better user experience. Learn how you can test the responsiveness of your apps from within the studio!

In this article, Krishna discusses one of the repeating issues in the community, how to implement a JOIN while retrieving the manager details in a loop.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Try Catch pattern is useful and in this blog learn how to connect it with Do Utnil so Try Catch with Do Until

In this blog post Benedikt will describe how to create and fill an Excel file dynamically with the help of Power Automate.

🔨 Tools & Components

Web API for Portals is a new feature where you can finally issue Web API calls from your portal to the CDS.

A control to select an address using Canada Post API. Default country is Canada but the control can be tweaked to search any other country.

🎮 Other Dev Stories

Introducing one of the ES2020 features, Optional Chaining. With this feature, your code will become cleaner and more readable.

TailwindCSS's utility classes help to make attractive and user-friendly websites, quickly. React help... Tagged with tailwindcss, javascript, react, css.

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

Dona Sarkar @ #MSIgnite@donasarkar

#PowerfulDevs rages on with @gautamthapar showing us how to connect #AzureSQL to #CDS, then build a #Blazor web app on top of it at #PowerfulDevs https://t.co/5T2XQjKu9S

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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