Power Fx: Introducing Named Formulas
Simplify your app’s initialization, reduce app load time, reuse logic, and improve the maintainability of your apps with an old and very powerful concept form Excel.
» Read more Power Fx: Error handling graduates to preview
Reliable error handling moves to preview for Power Fx and Power Apps. You now have all the tools you need to detect, replace, report, and log errors, including a good default behavior if you never take advantage of these tools. And, bonus, you can also now write blank (or null) values to databases.
» Read morePower Fx: String interpolation, Index function, and RandBetween function
Power Fx has added three great new features. String interpolation enables expressions to be embedded within strings, making it easier to combine parts of a string into a whole. The Index function does away with Last of FirstN patterns. The RandBetween function makes it easier to work with integer random numbers.
» Read morePower Fx: Open source now available
The preview release of Microsoft Power Fx is now available as open source on GitHub You can now freely integrate this Excel-like, low code programming language in all of your own projects.
» Read moreExperimental Git version control for Power Apps Studio
As an experimental feature, two makers can now work on the same app at the same time. This is a first step, seeking your feedback, as we continue to build co-authoring features across Power Apps.
» Read moreApp.StartScreen: a new declarative alternative to Navigate in App.OnStart
There is a new declarative way to control the first screen shown in a Canvas app: App.StartScreen. It is our first step in providing declarative alternatives for all the things that are done in App.OnStart today. App.OnStart is the source of many app load performance issues as it’s imperative nature prevents many optimizations. Not only that, declarative alternatives are easier to use and less error prone.
» Read moreCanvas components can now access app scope directly
Access an app’s global variables, collections, controls, and tabular data sources directly from within a canvas component, without needing to pass everything through component properties. Great for formula and UI reuse within an app.
» Read morePower Fx: Int, Trunc, WeekNum, and ISOWeekNum functions
Excel’s Int, Trunc, WeekNum, and ISOWeekNum functions are now available for use in Power Fx formulas.
» Read moreCanvas source code tool integrated with Power Platform CLI
The open source tool for packing and unpacking a Canvas app is now available in preview through the Power Platform Command Line interface.
» Read morePower Fx coming to Model-driven Power Apps, Dataverse, and more
Announcing Power Fx integration with Model-driven Power Apps commanding and Dataverse calculated columns and rollups. We have also partnered with Acumatica to evaluate how Power Fx can be leveraged with the low code/no code experience they offer to their customers. And finally we have an update on our planned open source architecture.
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