Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #75

🥇 Cover Story

By using a newly announced feature we can write C# code to transform the custom connector response into any shape we want.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

There seems to be new mapping behavior in Alex's environment as of this morning – it could be a feature, but it could also be a bug. But it’s something to be aware of.

Temmy sets up a tool where he tries to automate the deployment for web resources and plugins using a custom tool.

In this blog, we'll see how to create a custom API in the maker portal and write a plugin to implement it.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

In this post, Carlos has provided a nice guide along with tips & tricks when building canvas apps.

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Ajit encountered an issue when using a custom connector. Check out what caused this issue and the limitation of the custom connector.

Venkata continues his Power Platform Fundamentals series and in this one, he covers how to use the lesser-known Coalesce function.

🚀 PCF & Custom Pages

In this post, we will dive into custom pages and how they enable the merging of the canvas app and a model-driven app.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Olena shares her recent experience with loading a CSV file via Dataflow to Dataverse.

Custom connectors for Power Automate and Power Apps make it possible to create our own connectors for any web service that has a REST API.

🔨 Tools & Components

Extension for Visual Studio Code - The all-in-one tool to develop code for Dataverse/Dynamics 365. Helps you connect to a Dataverse environment, generate TypeScript definitions for entities, create a different type of Dataverse-specific projects, and much more.

Extension for Visual Studio - Author and register plugins for Power Platform

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Lazy Loading Lazy loading is a way by which we can load content only when they are needed.

At certain times you would want to run Visual Studio as an administrator. What if your default is always administrator mode so you don't have to create a new instance. Read this post for more info.

⛅ Around Azure

Easy way to extend your app secret for more than 2 years.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Update Automatic record creation rules NOW! - Thomas Sandsør

How to Clear/Hide OOB form level notifications in Dynamics 365 CRM using client API - Inogic

Power Automate Fundamentals # 5: Usage of formatDateTime Function in Power Automate - Venkata Polisetty

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

Daryl and Scott interview Daniel Cai, founder of KingswaySoft and a former MVP. We talk through the history of the KingswaySoft SSIS adapter as well as some of the improvements made along the way. 

The Nicks discusses the Power Platform 2021 Release Plan and how it relates to Power Apps portals, buying a car, and Coke vs Pepsi.

🐤 Tweets of the week

George Doubinski @georgedude

Seasoned devs are familiar with concurrency gotchas but new makers may not be. Loops in #PowerAutomate should avoid variables if possible. Otherwise make sure your loop does NOT run in parallel. I rarely read screen prompts but this is a good one. https://t.co/nNByajlhEY

Jukka Niiranen #ForwardForever @jukkan

Awesome! The latest #PowerPlatform CoE Starter Kit release contains app + flows for managing environment creation requests. This Request Center looks very handy for the #PowerApps & #PowerAutomate governance processes: https://t.co/k1OGO5J402

💖 GitHub Sponsors

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