Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #65

🥇 Cover Story

In plugins, performance is crucial and conventional wisdom says using Images is always faster than retrieving the records, but is it true? Well, it's complicated...

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Toggling ribbon button’s visibility based on asynchronous operation is tricky but Suresh explains how to achieve this in his blog.

Mehdi demonstrates how to interact with the Opportunity Close Quick Create form to define some labels.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Power Apps Containers make it easier to design the layout of an app. In this visual guide I will use examples to illlustrate how to use them.

Learn how to work with OOB many to many Dataverse relationships in canvas apps – how to display, create and delete related records!

🐱‍🏍 Power Automate

Using dynamics paginated report in Power Automate and getting errors? Then read this blog from Alex where he explains some weird behavior with Paginated Report action.

Power Automate Approvals are often one of those unclear things that people try to avoid. But Pieter guides you to use them properly.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Alex Shelga compares Managed vs Unmanaged solutions and discuss if there are any significant benefits of managed solution.

Nishant explains how to optimize your data migrations to utilize all those API calls.

🔨 Tools & Components

This article does a deep dive in the Build and Deploy automations by using Publish, Export, GIT, Variables tasks.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

Users just love working in Excel and there is no avoiding it! This post will explore how we can bring Microsoft Dataverse to Excel by implementing Office Add-ins. Very code-heavy.

One of the most common questions that we as developers face is about caching the data. Temmy demonstrates to us how to implement caching using Azure Redis Cache in plugins.

⛅ Around Azure

Need to have access to the data in more prominent way; maybe for reporting or any other reason? Enter "Azure Synapse". Allan here explains us how to get all setup using Azure Synapse.

Wanna keep your LUIS trained without manual intervention? Learn how adding utterances in LUIS via REST API is possible using Power Automate.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

New Dataverse functionality in creation of App Users - Aric Levin

Extend access token lifetime - Ramon Tebar

Modern vs Classic app Designer for Model Driven Apps - Pieter Veenstra

Stroke of Jonas - pause of normal MVP - Jonas Rapp

PL-400 Revision Notes - Working with Web API and Processing Workloads - Joe Griffin

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

MVP Andrew Butenko who is the creator of multiple extremely useful PCF controls and now Clippy join Daryl and Scott.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Matt Collins-Jones | MCJ @D365Geek

Be still my beating heart, a new Model-driven App designer? 😍 You can edit the navigation, see what data is in and outside the app, handy links to click to customise tables, navigate through the app in the designer and has toggles for responsive, desktop, mobile etc. #PowerApps https://t.co/ablNqO52CS

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