Announcing data source environment variables

Casey Burke, Senior Program Manager, 14 April 2021

Today we’re excited to announce a vast new set of capabilities that provide enterprise grade application lifecycle management for the data sources used within canvas apps and cloud flows. Environment variables are now natively built into authoring experiences across canvas apps and flows as well as solution and solution import experiences. We’ve also added several new API’s to simplify working with environment variables in code and within automated ALM pipelines. 

Key ALM updates

Casey Burke, Senior Program Manager, 25 March 2021

This blog will cover several recent improvements for application and environment lifecycle management as well as a glimpse into our ALM roadmap. If you haven’t already, now is the time to adopt solutions and an ALM strategy!

Source code files for Canvas apps

Greg Lindhorst, Principal PM Architect, 14 January 2021

Imagine using GitHub and Visual Studio Code with the text formulas of a Canvas app.  Teams can collaborate on apps: they can work on private branches, diff changes, create pull requests for review, and merge into master. We are very pleased to announce the experimental release of a tool that enables these modern miracles.  It is but the first step as we make application lifecycle management easier for formulas and Canvas apps.

GitHub connector features for Power Platform

Per Mikkelsen, Principal Group Program Manager, 17 December 2020

Use the GitHub Connector in Power Apps and Power Automate to run GitHub Actions workflows

Connect with the Microsoft Power Platform ALM Team at the Kansas City User Group January 14

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, 07 December 2020

Join the Power Platform Application License Management (ALM) team members for a session on the best tactics implementing Power Platform ALM processes and highlight the all-new Power Platform ALM Starter Kit. An open-source project built by the Power Customer Advisory Team (CAT) to accelerate your ability to get started with productively perform ALM using the Power Platform. Where: https://aka.ms/KansasCityPPUG When: Thu, January 14, 2021 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST

GitHub actions for the Power Platform now available in preview

Per Mikkelsen, Principal Group Program Manager, 22 September 2020

GitHub actions for Power Platform available in preview

Announcing the new solution import experience with connections and environment variables

Casey Burke, Senior Program Manager, 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, 05 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, 04 August 2020

GA Announcement of Power Platform Build Tools

Use Monitor to debug your published app

Aengus Heaney, Senior Program Manager, 24 June 2020

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