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Xrm Tools v1.4 – Smarter Code Generation, One-Click Registrations, and Compile-Time Dependency Injection

Xrm Tools v1.4 introduces compile-time, thread-safe dependency injection for Power Platform plugins and custom APIs, smarter one-click registrations, enriched metadata, and optimizations—helping developers focus on business logic while the tool handles the complexity.

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Streamline Power Platform Plugin Troubleshooting with a Custom Postman Visualizer

Use a custom visualizer in Postman for troubleshooting Power Platform plugins.

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Using Dataflows and Power Automate for continuous data integration

Power Platform's Dataflows are a capable data integration tool that are often overlooked when it comes to transferring data out of Power Platform. They provide a wide range of connectors to extract and transform data from variety of sources. It is also possible to create custom connectors through

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How to export large number of rows from Power Platform - The easy way

So you need to export a large number of rows from Power Platform or more specifically Dataverse. You might need to extract data from more than one table, join, transform, map, cleanup as well. Usually after going through the requirements, one of the first things that comes to mind is

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How to show document tab for model-driven forms

Uncover a hidden Power Apps trick! Learn how to automatically display the Documents tab in model-driven forms using JavaScript. Improve usability with this barely noticeable, seamless transition.

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Power Platform JSON Converters to make unit testing custom APIs easier

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Create Word documents with multi-level repeating content in Power Automate

Power Platform Tidbits 12: Create Word documents with multi-level repeating content in Power Automate

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Power Platform Tidbits 11: Load large tables /views from SQL Server to Power Platform

There are several ways of loading (or migrating) data to Power Platform. I have blogged about it in length before. Today I'm going to show how you can easily and reliably load large amount of data from Microsoft SQL Server to Power Platform. We are going to use

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Dynamic Dropdown for Power Platform

How to use Dynamic Dropdown for Power Platform to create advanced drop-down lists that depend on other fields in the form.

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Power Platform Tidbits 10: How to split address into separate columns in Power Query

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Azure Uploader for Power Platform is here

Azure Uploader for Power Platform is here. You can send files directly from your apps to Azure Blob storage.

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Introducing PSDataverse, PowerShell's new super power

PSDataverse is a PowerShell module that brings Dataverse to PowerShell.

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Power Platform Tidbits #7 - Optimize for server-side execution (folding) when adding columns

How to make Power BI steps foldable to make them run at data-source.

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NovoDocx - An open source service that generates documents using standard Word templates

NovoDocx is an open source service that can generate documents using standard Word templates.

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Power Platform Tidbits #6 - Plugins in single-project vs multi-project

Plugins has been and are an integral extension point in Dynamics and now Dataverse. They allow you to put logic close to the data. Logic that can be invoked at different stages of execution of an action (aka message). When the number of plugins grows, you might be willing to

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Build dialogs using model-driven pages to run flows all with low-code

Low-code is all the rush these days. It makes for more maintainable solutions that are built faster, specially when it comes to extending existing platforms like Power Platforms / Dynamics. It makes our work more decoupled from that of Microsoft's and we can each focus on building better solutions

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Power Platform Tidbit #5 - What events are available in model-driven apps

Model-driven Power Apps can notify your code when certain events happen in the following parts of your apps.

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Power Platform Tidbit #4 - Workflows in Business process flows

Power Automate Business process flows workflows explained in two minutes

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Power Platforms Tidbits #3 - Power Automate flow types

The five types of Power Automate flows explained in two minutes with bonus tips.

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Power Platform Tidbits #2 - What is possible with business rules in Model-Driven Apps vs Canvas Apps

Business rules can be used by Canvas Apps or Model-driven Apps to do the following: * Set column values. * Clear column values. * Validate data and show error messages. But keep in mind that they can do the following only in model-driven apps: * Show or hide columns. * Enable or disable columns. * Create

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Power Platform Tidbits #1 - Business Rules vs Client-side scripts in model-driven apps

When to consider client-side scripts over business rules in model-driven Power Apps.