Last Friday, September 16th, Microsoft introduced Name Formulas to Power FX. Named Formulas, and old concept that has been part of Microsoft Excel for a long time has now been brough to Power FX (currently experimental only). With Named Formulas we can simplify app initialization, reduce load time and logic and improve overall app maintenance
In late July, Microsoft announced the preview of Dependent Assemblies, which would allow the ability to register individual assemblies, and upload a nuget package that contains both the plugin assembly and the dependent assembly. Previously, the only way this was available was the use of the ILMerge tool to manually merge dependent assemblies.
In late July, Microsoft announced the preview of Dependent Assemblies, which would allow the ability to register individual assemblies, and upload a nuget package that contains both the plugin assembly and the dependent assembly. Previously, the only way this was available was the use of the ILMerge tool to manually merge dependent assemblies.
The Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio provide the ability to quickly create, debug and deploy plugings. There are some other capabilities that are still currently in preview, such as the deployment of custom workflow activities, web resources and other integration components.
On Monday last week, Microsoft announced the preview of Formula Columns in Dataverse. Formula Columns have been available in Dataverse for Teams for quite some time now, but are now (as part of the next release wave) will become available in Dataverse as well.
Earlier this month, Microsoft posted on the docs site a few changes and deprecation notices related to Power Apps Portals. This notices are not yet being removed from Power Apps Portals, but announced that they will be removed in a future date
Late last month, the Microsoft Power Platform Customer Advisory Team (PowerCAT) released the Power Apps Creator Kit, which is a set of prebuilt controls and components to assist both citizen and professional developers in their journey of developing Canvas Apps and Custom Pages. In this post I will review a sample application that I created using some of these components.
Last week, on June 6th, Microsoft announced the General Availability of the new data focused experiences, which aligns it with some of the functionality that has been availability in Dataverse for Teams for quite some time. This includes the new table hub, table designer the redesign of the columns and data types, the ability to edit choice columns in the maker portal and some advanced table tools.
Earlier this year in March, as part of the 2022 Release Wave 1, Microsoft introduced the Modern Advanced find to replaced what we have known as Advanced find for the past 20 years or so. It was definitely time to modernize this, but there were a few shortcomings to this new release which caused many customers to hold off and wait until the missing functionality has been developed and made available to customers.
Today, June 2, Casey Burke, Senior Program Manager announced the General Availability of Power Appls modern commanding, which has been in preview for almost a year. Modern commanding provides the ability to modify the Command Bars in your Model Driven Apps using an easy to use low-code experience, and the ability to add business logic using either Power FX or JavaScript.
