Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #52

🥇 Cover Story

Is there a difference between calling Microsoft Graph Endpoints using an HTTP action or creating a custom connector? In this post Pieter will compare these two options.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

In this blog post, we will learn just a simple scenario: RetrieveMultiple without filter/sorting. So we can understand better part by part of the code needed.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this article Matt will show you how to make Power Apps with a multiple selection checkbox. This feature does not come included in Power Apps.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Converting XML to JSON and JSON to XML in Power Automate using xml() and json() functions. Overview of the same.

Find out how to read SAP status bar MessageType from Power Automate Desktop with a working VBS code.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

In this post, Diana shows her new PCF control that works with multiple boolean fields.

In this blog, we will get the idea on how we can check if the logged-in user has Read/Write/Update access to any specific entity or not.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

In this post, we will look at how to set up authentication in Omnichannel so Power Apps Portal customers can be pre-authenticated when talking with agents.

🔨 Tools & Components

Working with demo or test data, you normally need a set of data rather than one table. Carl Cookson added a new feature to his Mockaroo Data Munger that handles datasets rather than one single table.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

TypeScript announced a fresh re-write of the Handbook and is out of beta. It is now their website’s primary resource for learning TypeScript! Read the handbook on Web / Epub / PDF.

Four options for dealing with helper functions listed as dependencies in the useEffect hook.

⛅ Around Azure

Let us see a simple example to upload the file to Azure Blob Storage through a desktop application using C#.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Send Email with model-driven app record link using Compose action in Power Automate - Inogic

Open forms, views, and dashboards through URL in Dynamics 365 Mobile/Tablet App - Nishant Rana

What is your IP? - Ramon Tebar

Format input values using Formatting API in PCF Control within model-driven app - Inogic

isRTL property of UserSettings API in PCF Control to Determine Language within Dataverse - Inogic

🎥 Videos

🐤 Tweets of the week

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