Greg Lindhorst, Author at Microsoft Power Platform Blog

Power Apps

June 18
2 min read

Enhanced Component Properties, User Defined Functions, and UntypedObjects on the move

Taking another big step forward, Enhanced Component Properties (ECP) are now generally available (GA) and ready for your production workloads! ECPs are a great way to modularize and reuse your logic across an app, with the added bonus that ECPs can be shared across apps through a component library.

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January 16
4 min read

User defined functions, user defined types, and enhanced component properties move forward

More Power Fx formula reuse! User defined functions can now call behavior functions with side effects and be chained.

June 24, 2024
4 min read

GA of many long time Preview features

How we introduce new features in Power Apps is a complicated business.

April 10, 2024
2 min read

Power Fx: Column names escape double quotes

We are making a small syntax change to how column names are specified in AddColumns, DropColumns, ShowColumns, RenameColumns, Search, GroupBy, Ungroup, and DataSourceInfo functions.

September 6, 2023
4 min read

Leverage Power Fx 1.0

We are pleased to announce the general availability of open-source Power Fx 1.

September 16, 2022
8 min read

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.

August 15, 2022
4 min read

Power Fx: Error handling graduates to preview

Reliable error handling moves to preview for Power Fx and Power Apps.

April 25, 2022
3 min read

Power Fx: String interpolation, Index function, and RandBetween function

Power Fx has added three great new features.

November 2, 2021
6 min read

Power 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.

November 1, 2021
3 min read

Experimental Git version control for Power Apps Studio

As an experimental feature, two makers can now work on the same app at the same time.

October 20, 2021
8 min read

App.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.

August 18, 2021
2 min read

Canvas 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.