Table of contents for Power Platform in CODE Magazine

for creating applications, Power Automate for streamlining workflows, Power BI for analyzing data, Power Pages for developing websites, and Power Virtual Agents for building AI-driven chatbots. Yet what inspires me the most about the Power Platform is who it empowers. A diverse spectrum of creators, from non-coders to seasoned developers, can now collaborate and turn their ideas into realities. Power Platform empowers everyone to be a developer and enjoy the benefits that entails! Throughout the evolution of software development, from the era of mainframes and punch cards to today, the constant pursuit has been to simplify, streamline, and democratize how people create solutions. Each simplification unlocked more opportunities for developers and more digital solutions for companies. Now, with the low-code tools within the Power Platform, it has never been easier,…

development or you are just getting started, you'll find that Power Automate has the building blocks you need. Do you want to manage complex processes for your organization? You can build them by dragging connectors and configuring them to perform actions such as sending an email, starting an approval process, interpreting sentiment and much more, without writing code. Prior to Power Automate, this would have been hard to even imagine. People without a solid development background can retrain in the workplace and find a rewarding new job. While developers could use their development skills to support “citizen developers” (people without a coding background who create low-code solutions), for example, by implementing custom connectors to integrate custom applications with Power Platform. Or professional developers can use Power Automate to do many…

Mike is an architect on Power Fx at Microsoft. He previously worked in Azure, ASP.Net, and .Net runtime. Greg is the Power Fx PM Architect on the Microsoft Power App team, responsible for Power Fx language design and other aspects of the Power Apps programming model. Greg has also contributed to Visual Studio, VBA, Access, Excel, SharePoint, and InfoPath, always gravitating to low code tools that enable anyone to create their own solutions and enable professional developers to save time and money with a great end user outcome. are arguably the most successful programming model ever developed. Microsoft Power Fx is a new general purpose, low-code programming language that leverages and extends the spreadsheet model to democratize the creation of apps, automation flows, virtual agents, and other business solutions. Novice…

Lewis, a Microsoft Business Applications MVP, has been immersed in the Low Code and Power Platform space for approximately two years. His intrigue with low code began during his high school days and transitioned into his career. Lewis now works as a Power Platform Functional Engineer at Microsoft Business Applications Inner Circle partner, ANS Group, delivering a Center of Excellence service for Power Platform and Dynamics 365. He primarily works with Dynamics 365 Omnichannel for Customer Service, but also engages in a number of wider community activities alongside his work at ANS. He also enjoyes writing for his blog, Low Code Lewis. which led to numerous advancements in software development practices. Software developers have long relied on conventional programming languages to create software that addresses the increasing needs and challenges…

works with low code to increase productivity and build advanced solutions. Let's explore the Power Platform developer tooling, opportunities for using code, and how developers can participate in Power Platform fusion teams. Power Platform Is Built On Azure The first thing to understand as a developer is that Power Platform core components are built using 25+ Azure cloud services. These components offer an abstraction and simplification layer targeted for building line of business applications. For example, Microsoft Dataverse provides hybrid cloud storage that is both relational and unstructured, all in the same data engine. Dataverse uses Azure SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Blob storage under the hood for data storage. This architecture allows Power Platform to benefit from the scale and robustness of Azure services without reimplementing their…

I'm a geek and proud to admit it! I'm also a rather large, talkative South African who plays drums, wears horrendous Hawaiian shirts and has an affinity for engaging in as many social gatherings as humanly possible, because, well….I want to experience as much as possible and connect with as many different people as I can! I am, unapologetically, Myself! This zest for interaction and collaboration has led to a fixation on community and an understanding that by bringing people together in the right environment, ANYTHING can be achieved. I have an intense enthusiasm for technology. I am a terrific tinkerer, a passionate problem solver and a magical maker. As long as I am creating something, I feel fulfilled. Technology provides me with my creative outlet, especially in a digital…

Shane is a Power Apps and Power Automate enthusiast from Cincinnati, Ohio with about 20 million views on YouTube who loves helping people learn. He teaches and consults for PowerApps911.com on all things Power Platform. When he isn't helping the world with Power something you can find him chasing his kids around town for soccer matches or in the pool with his wife and dog Buddy. If you need help, just reach out via PowerApps911.com and Shane and the team will be happy to assist you! As we embark on this fictional quest, remember that the magic I describe mirrors real possibilities. Meet Phillip, a squire in the remote kingdom of Azuria. Just like a normal squire, Phillip has many daily tasks including polishing the armor, cleaning up after the…

other tools in the Power Platform to enhance its capabilities and provide even more value to your business: 1. Refreshing on a schedule with Power Automate 2. Refreshing on change with Power Automate 3. Real-time reporting with Dataverse 4. Writeback using the Power Apps visual 5. Real-time survey results with Power Automate and Microsoft Forms 6. Alerting with dashboards and Power Automate 7. Data-driven subscriptions with Power Automate Refreshing on a Schedule With Power Automate Power BI reports run their queries against Power BI datasets. A dataset typically contains a cache of data that is pulled from any number of sources. The cached data is stored in a highly optimized fashion that allows for analytical queries to be processed with blazing speed. The data cached in the dataset becomes stale…

from registration to bookings. Sure, there are several technologies and services that can help develop internal or external websites. But Microsoft Power Pages is a straightforward, fast, easily extendable, and remarkably interesting solution for public websites, Business-to-Consumer (B2C), and Business-to-Business (B2B) scenarios with a wide range of flexibility, from simple forms to fully customized partner portals. With the integration of Microsoft Copilot, the process becomes even more streamlined. Putting Copilot's capabilities right at your fingertips takes the process of designing and iterating in Power Pages to a new level of efficiency. Copilot acts as a companion, complementing your development journey by suggesting design templates and improvements, code snippets, offering best practices, and helping you with tasks to finalize your Power Pages projects. This not only speeds up the creation of…