Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #56

🥇 Cover Story

Scott is back with yet another ALM story. This time he talks about Connection References and how you can use them to automate the deployment of components that reference this connection references.

Over the past year we have seen the Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) evolve into a robust development framework for end user experiences. Today the evolution continues with the official PCF support on Portals.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Alex shows us how to add support for Create, Update & Delete of the Virtual Entities as the CUD support was added recently.

Debajit discovered a new events you can register on save that invokes after the save event is complete. He explains the usage in this blog.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Here's how you can retrieve Hashtags from a String and collect it!

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

In this blog post Leon will show you how to avoid creating unnecessary apply to each loops in Cloud Flows which can slow down your flow and make it harder

We will understand how we can enable concurrency control on the “trigger” and on “Apply to each” Action in Power Automate.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

There's an easy way to get more events than OnChange in a PCF control that's 100% supported and will continue to work, even after proper event support is added. It takes surprisingly little extra effort too—let's take a look.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

There are plenty of ways to do it, here's how Kent recommend typing React Components

Use Promise.race to add timeout support to the Fetch API

⛅ Around Azure

With Azure AD there are lot of policies you can implement. Nishant shows us how he was able to add a conditional access to a user and what happens when you use service principal.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Add Two-level up Related Column to a View in Model-driven Apps - Linn Zaw Win

General Tips on Dynamics CRM Plugin Development - Temmy Raharjo

Secure Input and Output in Power Automate - Vaishali Vyas

How to Get Last day of current month in Power Automate - Debajit Dutta

Create/Update/Delete Virtual Entities - Mark Carrington

🎥 Videos

📹 Other Interesting Videos

How do I work with state in React? - Microsoft Developer

Power Apps Sort and Filter on Multiple Columns - Reza Dorrani

Power Automate - Get Info About The Flow Running - Flow Joe

🐤 Tweets of the week

GitHub @github

Still trying to get the hang of Markdown? There's a cheatsheet that you can download and print for easy reference: https://t.co/CwSSd4KFcz 📄 PDF https://t.co/tqJdkf5hYd

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