Power Platform Dev Weekly #206

The MVP Summit Hangover Edition

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Mar 20, 2024

Welcome to the Power Platform Dev Weekly!

Hope everyone had a fantastic week last week, MVP Summit for those that attended was fantastic and we all learned lots about the up and comings of the technologies we work and love every day - but now it’s back to regular programming…

Check out a host of new features and some great blogs in this week’s edition of #PPDevWeekly. Hope you’ll like it.

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🥇 Cover Story

Copilot Studio, Azure AI Studio or both?
by Carsten Groth
In an increasingly AI-first world, Carsten challenges the traditional low-code vs. pro-code divide and challenges you to think through which of these powerful tools is the right one for your team when you’re building your next AI project.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Use Monitor to debug Model-driven apps remotely
by Priyesh Wagh
The monitor is a great tool for debugging model driven apps and making them as performant as possible - made even better by the fact you can invite others to the debugging session to get users to reproduce issues. No more need to say “It works on my machine”.

Learn Xrm.WebApi.executeMultiple
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
ExecuteMultiple commands aren’t used as much as they probably should be throughout the PowerPlatform and Temmy here takes the chance to you to you about how to use them directly in the WebApi - definately worth a read.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

How to Use Multilingual Language in Canvas PowerApps
by Ram Prakash
A fun blog post with an interesting tag on how to handle more than 1 language within canvas apps using PowerFx and translation tables.

Animated text in Power Apps
by Charles Sexton
Animation makes all the difference when making good User Experience and doing it in canvas apps is never easy - Charles gets CSS and SVG heavy in this deep dive, really interested way of solving the animation problem.

😎 Power Automate

Creating Wordle in Power Automate
by Dave Wyatt
I mean, why not? Even those Wordle isn’t quite the craze it was a few years ago when the New York Times acquired it, it’s still fascinating that this can be done with Power Automate! Good job to Dave on a really interesting blog post.

Remove Characters From A String
by Matthew Devaney
Matthew Devaney smashes out fantastic content week after week and this week is no different - an in depth, yet sensible explanation on how to remove characters from a string. Well described with great supporting documentation.

🤖 Copilot & AI

A Comprehensive Guide to Create and Edit Topics with Copilot
by Inogic
Normally, in Microsoft Copilot Studio, you can make and change topics. Now, Microsoft added a neat feature called “Create and Edit from Description”. With this, you can just tell it what you need, and it will help you make and improve topics.

Decision-Making and Learning in the AI-Enhanced Development Landscape
by Dynamics Hotdish
An interview with rcsays (Ryan Cunningham - VP of Power Apps) offers great insight into the direction of Power Apps when combined with the AI era that is now upon us. Nothing particularly developer-y in this, but a useful insight.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Power Pages Fundamentals #8: Power Pages Trial : Quick Read Series
by Venkata Subbarao Polisetty
Want to get started with Power Pages? A trial is the best way, here’s a quick way to get one and get started!

Extend a generated Word Template from Dataverse
by Clement Olivier
Custom API’s in Power Automate using HTTP requests - real tech blog here! Fun read about how Clement solved an interesting challenge he was given.