Power Platform Developers Weekly - Issue #123

🥇 Cover Story

You, my fellow human, are about to become a better at making Power Apps. Read these 10 Power Apps code examples to improve your coding style.

❓ Quiz of the week

Answer the questions for a chance to win some prizes.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Temmy shows how you can pass an instance of ILogger when you are using DataverseServiceClient, to help with better custom code logging and performance monitoring.

Shalinee provides a simple way to calculate the difference between two date fields.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Developers in today’s generation are moving fast with their development and to further help them with their pace for designing custom components for Canvas Apps, Microsoft has introduced a kit that includes all the essential components.

😎 Power Automate

Getting back several responses from Power Automate to Power Apps is not supported - Still, there is a way!

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Do you want to have a different Power BI component configuration in Power Pages depending on who is logged in, making the data user relevant?

Pieter has looked at the development of pages but has not considered Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) yet until this post.

👩‍💻 Dev to the Core

People struggle with promises all the time. This post aims to assist individuals in comprehending this amazing topic. We will endeavor to gain a proper mental model of promises through real-life examples.

What is DRY, KISS, YAGNI? They are just acronyms of common best practices. Let's learn them to improve our dev practice.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

Get started with Liquid in Power Pages - Pieter V.

Create clickable link in Canvas Apps without Launch function - Kristine K.

Duplicate Detection for leads (Preview) - Nishant R.

Use of Process insights (Preview) feature for monitoring/analyzing Flow - Inogic

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this episode, Daryl and Scott interview Kristine Kolodziejski, Gamer/Drummer/Piano girl, about the latest neomorphic UI design kits for Power Apps canvas apps.

🐤 Tweets of the week

Ben den Blanken @BenDenBlanken

It is now possible to add a Code Component (PCF) using the Modern Form Designer! Great addition to find the components made by Microsoft or custom made by you. #PowerApps #PowerAddicts #PCF https://t.co/2SZrA1tWdQ

Scott Durow #ProCodeNoCodeUnite @ScottDurow

Fluent UI React v9 stable release is now available🚀 I can't wait to see how it develops, and how it'll be adopted by the #PowerPlatform. Some interesting info on how to upgrade and the differences in theming and styling. https://t.co/iqIfKuQuRf

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