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Author: Allan De Castro (Allan De Castro)
Analyzing your Dataverse environment using Application Insights
Since this year, Microsoft has put forward several new possibilities to add telemetry to all services. The first major change was the new functionality of Monitor, which has been released initially only for Canvas Apps and then also for Models Driven Apps and results in a screen displaying in real time all events performed from...
Bringing your Dataverse data to Azure Synapse
Often when we set up a Business Application based on a Dataverse database, we are asked to make data available for reporting purposes or simply to feed a third-party database that will be consumed later.We could imagine at first to build an interface to send the data and no matter the target system, but this...
Custom Virtual Tables: Perform CRUD operations to another system
When it comes to interfacing with another system, the possibilities are numerous and depend on many characteristics of the system, but also on performance, integration model, data, security, functional objectives, etc.We won’t go into detail about all this, but we will focus on a brand-new feature, in fact we prefer to talk about an improvement...
Implementing Dataverse Custom APIs (a.k.a new Custom Actions)
It’s been a while since we heard Microsoft’s desire to make Custom Actions and Workflows obsolete. For Workflows this seems to be quite logic since the availability of Power Automate and even if they are not synchronous we can always find a workaround by creating a plug-in. For Custom Actions this was more problematic because...
Error handling model in Power Automate
Since the Power Automates were announced and their use democratized, especially with the concept of citizen developer, they are now an integral part of our daily developer/customizer life. As it is now strongly recommended to use Flows rather than classic Workflows (Dataverse), it is imperative to be familiar with them! As we know, there are...
Extending Common Data Service using Azure Function – Part 2: Outgoing scenario
If you have already been able to read the first blog post in this series, you now know why and when to use an Azure Function. If not, I strongly encourage you to read it: Episode 1: Extending Common Data Service using Azure Function – Part 1 The aim of this post is to put...
Extending Common Data Service using Azure Function – Part 1: Introduction
If you are reading this post, you should already have an idea what an Azure Function is and why this Azure component is extremely useful within the Power Platform. If you don’t, don’t worry, I’ll try to explain it all. Note that this kind of component is also very often used when we want to...
How to implement a multilingual Canvas App?
Since Canvas Apps have been around for a long time, and especially since their usefulness for answering simple business use cases has been proven, they do not have language management implemented OOB. When we look at model-driven apps and what they allow us to do to translate the application, we are still a little bit...
Deep dive into Power Apps Component Framework – Part 4 : Walkthrough to create your first PCF (based on a field)!
In this new episode, we will simply build step by step a PCF bound to a field! Before continuing to read this article, I advise you to read the four latest articles: Prelude : Getting started with PowerApps Component Framework Episode 1: First Steps! Episode 2: Focus on … Control Manifest file! Episode 3: Focus on...