Announcing the new solution import experience with connections and environment variables

Casey Burke, Principal Product Manager, Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Today we’re excited to announce a broad set of new ALM capabilities for importing solutions. In addition to these modern new interfaces, now you can establish connections as well as set values for environment variables.  We’re also excited to announce that environment variables are now generally available. Together, these features address some of the largest application lifecycle management problems facing the Power Platform.

Power Apps checker now analyzes modern web syntax (up to ES9)

Austin Jones, Wednesday, 5 August 2020

To ensure Power Apps checker continues to broaden analysis coverage as languages evolve, we recently migrated our web language rules to an ESLint plugin and now offer support for ECMAScript 2018 (ES9) syntax plus ES6 globals.

Announcing general availability of Microsoft Power Platform Build Tools

Per Mikkelsen, Principal Group Program Manager, Tuesday, 4 August 2020

GA Announcement of Power Platform Build Tools

Use Monitor to debug your published app

Aengus Heaney, Senior Program Manager, Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Use Monitor to understand, debug and improve performance in your published app

Collaborate and debug an app together in real-time with Monitor

Aengus Heaney, Senior Program Manager, Thursday, 21 May 2020

Invite your teammates to your Monitor debug session and cut-down on the time to find the issue.

Power Apps at Build Developer Virtual Conference, 2020

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, Tuesday, 19 May 2020

The Power Platform has several sessions at the Build Developer Virtual Conference including rebroadcasting of “Accelerating enterprise app development with Power Platform”. The sessions included in this post show how professional developers can harness the capabilities of a no-code/low-code platform to rapidly create applications and work with citizen developers to accelerate an organizations development efforts. 

Finally – Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) on the Power Platform explained

Per Mikkelsen, Principal Group Program Manager, Thursday, 14 May 2020

Revamped ALM content on MS Docs

Automate your Canvas tests in your DevOps pipeline

Aengus Heaney, Senior Program Manager, Friday, 17 April 2020

Embed testing in your application life-cycle by automatically running your canvas tests from your Azure DevOps build and release pipelines.

Sharing made easy for model-driven apps

Casey Burke, Principal Product Manager, Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Sharing model-driven apps just got a whole lot easier! We’ve streamlined this into a single sharing panel so you can share your amazing apps with ease.

Announcing the public preview of canvas components and Power Apps component framework

Hemant Gaur, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, 27 February 2020

Today, the Power Apps team is excited to announce the public preview for two core canvas apps UI extensibility areas – Canvas components and Power Apps component framework. Both these features contribute directly towards Power Apps mission – Empower every developer to do more.