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DevelopmentPower Platform

Building Plugin Packages in CI/CD Automation

If you follow the recommended practices using the Power Platform CLI for exporting and unpacking solutions in CI/CD pipelines, you can use the `solution add-reference` command to add code-first compon

ToolsPower Platform

Universal Search Export to Excel

The first tool I thought of as an example of this type of functionality, was FetchXml Builder, by Jonas Rapp. in FetchXml Builder you can open the results of a query in Excel after getting the results

ToolsPower Platform

Universal Search for Solution Source Files

Two good examples of Power Platform components that aren't easily searched, today, are Canvas Apps and .NET Plugins. Both store some of their information inside of tables in Dataverse that you can sea

DevelopmentDynamics 365

Direct Query SQL Virtual Entities

Until recently, however, you could only create / use Virtual Entity providers that reached out to external APIs via web protocols. The recently enabled ability to reach out directly to Azure SQL from

Tips and TricksDevelopment

Quick Fix for Downloading Power Apps SDK Tools

The error wasn't really specific, but a quick Google search did lead to a solution on [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41618766/powershell-invoke-webrequest-fails-with-ssl-tls-secu

ToolsPower Platform

Search Your Metadata with Universal Search!

Several months ago after releasing the last feature I'd hoped to include in the tool, the ability to search on related lookups and picklists, I polled the community on what feature I should implement

Power PlatformDevelopment

Flow Everything: Calling Synchronous Flows from CDS and D365

While I appreciate the recommendation to run my background workflows in Microsoft Flow, and will certainly do it whenever possible. It's unfortunate that only my async processes can live in Flow since

ToolsPower Platform

Universal Search! Search all the Things!

When I first released Universal Search there were a few search scenarios I didn't address. In particular, you couldn't search for records based on the human readable value of picklist and lookup field

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