Power Platform Dev Weekly #248
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A quiet week from Microsoft, understandable however given the Wave 1 momentum in the last few weeks so it’s back to the community for most of this weeks focus!
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— PP Dev Weekly Team
🥇 Cover Story
Move to managed solutions
by Benedikt Bergmann
Not to delve into politics or advocate for my own beliefs, but I'd like to highlight Benedikt's post on why using Managed Solutions and following Microsoft's recommendations could be beneficial. The debate between unmanaged versus managed solutions is ongoing, but this article offers valuable insights from another perspective
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Let’s learn about Dataverse – BulkDeleteRequest
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
I love bulk deleting data (where applicable…) so I enjoyed reading Temmys breakdown of the BulkDeleteRequest message, talking about how it works.
Dataverse Git integration (Preview) - The commit process
by Riccardo Gregori
Part 2 of the Dataverse Git Integration series from Riccardo where he shows how the Commit feature works for Dataverse solutions. This will hopefully improve and simplify our ALM process.
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Use Power Automate Connector Actions directly from Power Apps
by Pieter Veenstra
This could go in both the Canvas Apps section or the Power Automate section as it’s a decent amount of both - Pieter doing some clever stuff directly in Canvas Apps.
🌎 Power Pages
Power Pages Multistep form Deep Dive
by Wilmer Alcivar
Who doesn’t love a good deep dive? Wilmer explains a complex, yet familiar, issue and addresses the requirements and challenges before breaking down and implementing the solution.
by Venkata Subbarao Polisetty
In most of the applications it is common to show logged in user name on the top of the page somewhere at corner right . In Traditional Microsoft’s ASP.NET we use GetUserId() method present under Identity libraries present in Microsoft. Let us see how this can be acheived in Power Pages.
😎 Power Automate
by Shalinee Goel
This may be a Part 2 but any time I see someone writing a flow that requires them to view the raw inputs and outputs gets my interest as it requires a bit more digging into a low code platform!
Actions, Outputs & Body Functions
by Matthew Devaney
A bit more about Power Automate internals from Matthew here - one for all to read here and I think everyone will learn something!
👩💻 Dev to the Core
Power DevOps Tools v9.21 has been released
by Wael Hamze
Not strictly a blog post but something devs should be aware of - the latest version of Power DevOps is here to make your DevOps life even simpler.
Create a Service Principal with one command
by Rajeev Pentyala
A lovely how to with the pac cli in how to make service principals. You don’t need to know this all the time, but when you do, posts like this are super helpful.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
The Super Villain Power App - David Wyatt
Check Out the Natural Language Grid and View search - Nishant Rana
{Step by Step} Creating Tables Using SharePoint List - Deepesh Somani
🎥 Videos
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