Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #60

🥇 Cover Story

My first VS Code extension - Power Apps Portal Helper to simplify working with Power Apps CLI for Portals

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Oliver shows how to include Microsoft Application Insights in your Model Driven App.

Diana highlights how to add a single PCF component as a form.

The new Custom API feature is now enabled for use in Workflow, Ramon walks through how it is done.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this article I will show you how to force app updates in Power Apps so all users will have the same app version when you click publish.

Here's how you can search on multiple columns in a Canvas Power Apps using Search function. Quick Tip!

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Uploading data from Power Apps can be scary on a security standpoint, since the user will need access to the Data Source. Lets use Child Flows to get around this, and use any connection we want.

🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)

An overview of PCF controls as a requirement for the PL-400 exam by (MVP) Joe Griffin

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Carina describes Fusion Teams and how we should embrace them to create productive project teams.

Dejabit steps through adding custom javascript files to Power Apps portals for when you want to use external libraries

🔨 Tools & Components

Newly MVP'd Mark Carrington (👏🏽) SQL 4 CDS tool has a major revamp, allowing a much broader set of queries.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Learn how to access a IHostedService instance from an ASP.NET Core HTTP Request.

⛅ Around Azure

Learn how to leverage Azure Functions, Power Automate, Azure IoT, and Power Apps to streamline IoT application development.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Emoji Driven Design 😎 - Mats Necker

Risk Mitigation of Citizen Development - Carsten Groth

Create Plugins Easier & Faster - Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

Dataverse SDK Extensions - Tanguy Touzard

Remove Duplicate items from a collection in Power Apps - Debajit Dutta

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Daryl and Scott talk with long time fellow MVP, Guido Preite. Guido is the caretaker of the PCF Gallery as well as the creator of the Dependent Option Set Manager. 

Click on the link to learn more about the Microsoft PnP – Patterns and Practices and Center of Excellence Starter Kit with Marc Schweigert!

🐤 Tweets of the week

Chris Huntingford - PERSONAL PROFILE 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @TATTOOEDCRMGUY

How you know @donasarkar had a hand in writing the #FusionDev learning path: "Volun-Told! :D #PowerPlatform https://t.co/EzHheQJqSl

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