Power Platform

Intro The feature discussed in this blog post is experimental and subject to changes. Use at your own risk. Microsoft has recently introduced a new experimental feature to directly store the modifications to your canvas apps to Git. This offers multiple advantages: Multiple people can now work on the same power app at the same time. All changes are stored in Git and once you save, your colleague can synch the changes and pick off from where you left off. You have version control for your app. All saves are stored as a Git commit, meaning you have a full trace of all changes and modifications. If you mess up, you can go back easily. You can link this to CI/CD pipelines to automatically build and deploy versions of your app. Using Git version control really opens up Power Platform development to mature and proven good practices in software development. ...

Intro Microsoft offers a set of sample apps, built with the Power Platform, that you can install for your team in MS Teams. These apps serve as fully functioning apps, that you can use as they are, but mainly they can be used as a great example on how Microsoft wants us to build Dataverse for Teams apps. They are the most production-ready apps out there, built by Microsoft itself. ...

Intro Power Platform is an amazing set of low-code products. Although most people with a work account and a Microsoft 365 license can already make use of a lot of its functionalities, it can be difficult to find a clean environment to learn and experiment with the products. In many organizations, the IT department, rightfully, limits most of these tools. So what can you do if you do want to experiment, but your company doesn’t allow it or you don’t have a work account? Luckily Microsoft has got you covered. ...