Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #47

🥇 Cover Story

In this post, we will explore how we can use Azure API Management to manage HTTP Request Trigger endpoints

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Continuing our previous posts, Create Custom API Message. Here we will create a custom API of type function by setting Is Function property as true.

Have you ever join multiple tables when retrieving your data in the plugin? If so, most likely you already know what is AliasedValue is all about. This post will describe when and how you can use AliasedValue. But the objective of this post is to make a simple extension to consume AliasedValue easier.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

The Power Apps Maps control is an exciting new feature. In this article Matt will teach you how to use the Maps feature in 10 minutes or less.

A quick fix for an issue that you encounter when using functions like UserPhotoV2 of the Office365Users connector in Power Apps

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Elaiza demonstrates how use Cloud Flows to create and send meeting invite for any user. The out of the box option creates meeting invite based on flow maker's account and not on behalf of the user.

Did you know that there are two types of file or image content type used in the input and output parameters? In this post, you will learn how to handle the different types of file content in the cloud flow action parameters.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

In the recent release, new features have been added. One of the most important and useful features among these is the feature to see and edit data of the related entity on the main form using the “Form Component Control”.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Make sure your bot is not passively waiting for user to trigger the conversation but rather it actively greets the user and provide a direction as to what user can accomplish using the bot.

Disclaimer: The Web API is still in preview, don't use in production just yet! More info here. The New Portal WebAPI opened so many doors to customize the portal outside the normal entity forms, web forms , entity lists etc. You remember that Profile Photo container in the profile pages on the portal? Almost every…

🔨 Tools & Components

Mark released a newer version of SQL 4 CDS for working with your Dataverse data in SQL. This includes a number of improvements to SQL language support, error reporting and SSMS support.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

In this blog post, we will try to find out how to improve the current API of React and create a custom hook that will help us "watch" for state changes.

Maintaining aspect ratio within images and elements is now easier to achieve with the new aspect-ratio CSS property.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Power Automate: Get the Flow Trigger Context Information – David Rivard

Sending an email using AddressUsed attribute of ActivityParty – Nishant Rana

Upsert-ing a record with CDS connector – Alex Shlega

Generate dialogs automatically using Form Dialogs for Bot Framework Composer – Arafat Tehsin

Advertisements in PowerApps Portal – Vaishali Vyas

Visualize Adaptive Card for Teams user action within a Cloud Flow – Priyesh Wagh

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Mike Stall joins us to talk about the work that Microsoft has just publicly released for Canvas Apps in the form of the Power Apps Source File Pack and Unpack Utility.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Arafat Tehsin@arafattehsin

Pro Tip: If you're working with @AzureFunctions, @logicappsio, App Service or any of the @Azure service for @code. Always install the complete extension package. Thank me later. https://t.co/oO0zsLhiwH

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

Natraj Yegnaraman #ProCodeNoCodeUnite@RajYRaman

You can quickly look at decompiled code right from #Nuget, using Fuget. 🤯 https://t.co/41kqsePLZR

1:05 AM · Jan 19, 2023

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