Power Platform Dev Weekly #256
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As a dev, #256 makes me happy and brings me back to my computer science days all those years ago…
This week 4 of the PPDevWeekly team were lucky enough to visit Seattle and attend MVP Summit, helping shape the future of the technology we all use every day. We were fortunate enough to even catch up with the legendary Dona Sarker - future guest editor perhaps?!
Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Announcing the winners of the 2025 Powerful Devs Hack Together
Real-time data warehousing with Microsoft Dataverse and Fabric zero-copy integration
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We hope you enjoy the content of this week.
— PP Dev Weekly Team
🥇 Cover Story
Using Map file in ALM
by Benedikt Bergmann
As developers, we should know about ALM and if I can make ALM the lead story in PPDevWeekly, I always will! This week Benedikt introduces map files into his ALM processes and breaks it down in an easy to understand post - at the ALM story within the Power Platform grows and evolves, it can be hard to keep up so articles like this are so helpful.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
How to: know the actual location of your Dataverse environment
How to: create a Dataverse environment in a specific Azure Region
by Riccardo Gregori
Riccardo with a dual entry here, talking about taking the extra mile and ensuring you know where your Dataverse actually is - without any ambiguity. I’ve heard this topic a lot the past few weeks, so fun to see it here as a blog series.
PCF: Direct embedding of Controls into SiteMap
by Andrew Butenko
Inspired by first party apps, Andrew shares with us his findings in using PCF controls in some clever ways! Very clever and introduces all new interesting use cases!
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Accessibility in Power Apps – Part 2
by Sancho Harker
Sancho always hits hard with his posts - a real deep dive into accessibility in Power Apps. The second part of a series started back in January, each of these should be read by anyone considering building Power Apps to ensure maximum a10y.
🌎 Power Pages
Power Pages Fundamentals #19: How to Use Liquid and FetchXML in Power Pages: Quick Read Series
by Venkata Subharao Polisetty
Another great article in the Fundamentals series.
😎 Power Automate
Top Extensions for Power Automate Developers - Part 2
by David Wyatt
A selection of tools to help you work more effectively.
Copy Files From Network Drive To SharePoint
by Matthew Devaney
Matthew is one of the most dedicated blog writers I think I’ve ever come across - another solid effort here from Matthew with plenty of in depth how to steps om how to move from your network drive across to SharePoint. Thank you Matthew.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Enabling Real Time Alerts using Microsoft Graph in Power Platform
by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
Lots of moving parts here so always a fun read to see it all pieced together. Graph, Azure, Connectors, Flows? This has it all - it’s a solid part 1 of a blog series and one we’ll definitely be following in the future.
👩💻 Dev to the Core
Debug PCFs using a Browser Autoresponder Extension
by Diana Birkelbach
Admittedly, I’ve always been a Fiddler dev and use it heavily for my PCF and Web Resource development but Diana’s latest blog post has opened by eyes to other, potentially better options! I’ll definitely have actions and will change some of my development behaviours off the back of it.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Cost Plus Billing in Project Operations - Priyesh Wagh
Extend the Power Platform by Vibe Coding Python - Chris Harper
🎥 Videos
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