Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #41

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🥇 Cover Story

In this post, Temmy shows us how to setup our Web Resource TypeScript project using chai, mocha, xrm-mock and sinonJS.

👍 Power Platform

Microsoft is continuously adding new Prebuilt AI models which are very easy to use. In this blog, we will illustrate how Text Translation AI Model can help your business process by improving productivity

Victor provides a deep understanding into casting different type filters when extending your Power Apps Portals.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Nishant demonstrates to us on how to consume Dataverse API using MSAL.Net in a simple way. Always handy!

This post shows us that sometimes we may miss small things which can cause bigger problems. Nishant shares his experience with tokens and how to generate them correctly.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this article Matt will show you how to create a dropdown with an other option in Power Apps that allows the user to write a value text field.

Krishna is a super user in the Power Apps community and has answered multiple questions on barcode control. Here he explains one of the common use case asked by many users.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Another brilliant post from Alex where he shows how to properly check if the property exists in an object.

Have you ever tried adding new tabs in your teams in Microsoft Teams? When you do this with Power Automate you might need to have a look at Microsoft Graph.

Got stuck like Alex did in figuring out how to upload files and images to Dataverse using Cloud flows? Then read this post where he shows us the path forward.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

In this post, the author reveals the process of identifying additional information about subgrid in custom controls using PCF.

Arun in his latest post, shares some tips on how to make you code components have small file size.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

After post from Jonas, Mark shares his ideal automated build and release process for his tools on XrmToolBox.

Step by step tutorial on how to create Typescript deep merge generic type which works with inconsistent key values structures.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

How to intercept record assignment and keep it under same team all the time - Alex Shlega

Building a "dictionary" object in Power Automate Flow - Alex Shlega

Remove duplicates from Power Automate array in one action - Joe Unwin

Updating entity reference Power Automate vs Plugin - Vrushali Ranjalkar

Converting DateTime field in a different format in Power Automate - Inogic

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Colin Vermander, Nick Doelman, Nicholas Hayduk discusses about the new features in Power Apps Portals and are they worth the upgrade.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Alan Mervitz @amervitz

I've released the new PowerShell module, CrmDataPackager, that lets you unpack Configuration Migration data zip files into separate files per record, m2m relationship, and even individual fields. This helps you achieve "ALM" for your Dynamics 365 / Power Apps data.

Phil Topness @topness

If you're building Canvas #PowerApps using a responsive grid design, this Canvas Component can save you a lot of math. https://t.co/aeN9dIPtNk https://t.co/7Xv1lKxf3M

🤩 Thanks for reading

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