Power Platform Weekly - Issue #248
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the general availability of the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code was announced.
NEW! 🛠️ Inspired by the legendary Tanguy TOUZARD and XrmToolBox, team members from our fellow newsletter Power Platform Developers Weekly, together with other contributors, introduced Power Platform ToolBox. Check out the announcement and give it a try.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Modern Power App development takes a lot of... SPACE
👩💻 There was a time when any client request that drifted outside the “blessed” Power Apps patterns triggered a long conversation about platform constraints. That era is over. Riccardo Gregori shows you how to ship more PCFs and webresources, while keeping your folder sizes at a minimum.
Best open-source tools for Microsoft Power Platform you should know
🛠️ This is a three-part series by Kamil Kowalczyk. In Part 1, he focuses on tools that help you stay informed, enhance your browser workflow, and plan licensing more confidently. The next parts will cover tools for low-code makers, pro-code developers, and essential utilities every consultant should know.
PPTB - Environment Manager
🛠️ Much as Carl Cookson loves XrmToolBox, and loved making tools for the toolbox, he has always thought that the visual aspect of the tools left something to be desired. With the new Power Platform ToolBox he created his first tool, the OrgSettings Tool.
Other articles
🛠️ Vibe coding an XrmToolBox tool part 3 - Add ALL the functionality by Matt Collins-Jones
🦸🏻♀️ Use Dynamics Environment Default Theme In Your Custom Page by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Hide The View In Browser Link | Customer Insights - Journeys by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Cockpit view with the multi-table visual hierarchy by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Export copies of sent emails from Customer Insights - Journeys for record keeping and compliance by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Pipelines – Download Solutions by Joe Gill
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Run As Radio Podcast
🧭 How do you get an idea to implementation in your organization? Richard chats with Amber Vanderburg about the work she’s done helping teams understand the process of getting projects started and finished. Amber talks about defining a clear starting line, ending line, and dead line. While many projects are important, prioritization is the challenge. This means often other priorities have to be resolved before something new can be started - you need resources and time to be successful. Working through the process takes time, but the alternative is failure to meet expectations. It takes planning and clear communication to get things done!
Scott & Mark Learn To...Podcast
👩💻 In this episode, Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich explore how AI-assisted vibe coding is changing the way complex software gets built, debugged, and refined. Mark walks through real-world experiments using AI to tackle difficult engineering problems, including gRPC shared memory, Win32 UI work, and major new features coming to ZoomIt. The conversation digs into where AI meaningfully accelerates development, where it still requires careful human oversight, and how tools like screenshots, debug output, MCP servers, and multimodal feedback loops are reshaping modern developer workflows. The result is an honest, technical discussion about productivity gains, limitations, and the evolving role of human judgment in AI-driven software engineering.
📅 Events & Webinars
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2026
(📅 January 29-30, 2026)
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn is a two-day event dedicated to deepening your expertise in the Microsoft Cloud, with sessions on AI, data, infrastructure, and collaboration to accelerate innovation and growth. It is also a unique community gathering at Tallinn’s Creative Hub, combining world-class learning with networking in the heart of Estonia’s capital.
Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026
(📅 March 21-22, 2026)
Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.
Adriatics Tech Summit 2026
(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)
Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.
ColorCloud 2026
(📅 April 15-17, 2026)
The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.
European BizApps Summit
(📅 May 5-7, 2026)
With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.
DynamicsMinds 2026
(📅 May 25-27, 2026)
DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.
European Power Platform Conference 2026
(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)
The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.
💙 Out of the Blue
Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code Is Now Generally Available
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Sarah Critchley announces the general availability of the Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code. You can now build and manage Copilot Studio agents from the Integrated Development Environment you already use.
Power BI Report Server January 2026 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog, Denyse Niwenshuti presents the January 2026 Power BI Report Server feature summary, highlighting new visualization and reporting enhancements for on‑premises environments.
Introducing Markers in Azure Maps for Power BI
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Harleen Kaur introduces Markers in the Azure Maps visual for Power BI, a new feature that enables richer, more expressive location-based storytelling without complex GIS tools. Markers allow report authors to use custom icons, dynamic sizing, colors, transparency, and category-based visuals to represent assets, routes, and performance metrics more intuitively.
Agentic Tooling: Making Agent Performance Transparent and Measurable
👩💻🚀 This blog by Vineet Kaul shows how to build a custom observability tool for Copilot Studio agents using the M365 Agents SDK, Python, and Gradio to make agent performance transparent and measurable.
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