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Many organizations are adopting the Power Platform because PowerApps and Flow make it so quick and easy to build business solutions without any need for the traditional software development life cycle. However, the ease of use of PowerApps is a double-edged sword. While it’s relatively easy to get up and running with PowerApps, you’ll also find plenty of ways to get yourself in trouble and to create the canvas-app-from-hell that’s impossible to maintain and evolve.

The D365UG FO CIO Council is a vital channel for both Microsoft and the entire community, to seek guidance on strategic, tactic and operational topics. This Town Hall is the perfect place to both learn from the CIO Council about their top concerns and share your own, to provide directly to Microsoft.
All feedback will be shared with Microsoft at a February 2021 meeting between the CIO Council and Muhammad Alam, Corporate Vice President, Dynamics 365, of Microsoft and his team of Engineers, Developers.

Enhance your existing solutions with Velosio apps or even create your own. Power Platform is the citizen developer’s best friend for reporting, automation, and custom apps.

While Business Central accommodates a large variety of records and transactions, clients often want additional fields, tables, and custom business logic. Developers create extensions to add this functionality to Business Central. Developing basics for Business Central and some considerations are discussed in this article.

Nowadays, low-code/no-code are buzzwords that you often hear coupled with the PowerApps platform. Microsoft truly changed the ICT landscape with the introduction of PowerApps, a focus on democratising solution development, and empowering citizen developers. However, with the public preview release of the PowerApps Component Framework (formerly known as the Custom Control Framework) hardcore developers can now rejoice with an exciting frameworks to play with. The PowerApps Component Framework allows you to build your own PowerApps custom controls and move away from the good old web resources approach. The framework expands on the platform’s capability and fills the gap when it comes to building custom rich controls. Come along to this session to see how we highlight the existing issues with web resources and demonstrate how those resources can be replaced with the latest framework. Live demo will include from building a control and deploying to Dynamics.

With defensive programming, the main idea is that if a function is passed bad data it won’t be hurt, even if the bad data is another function’s fault. More generally, it’s the recognition that programs will be modified later on and will have problems, and that a smart developer will write their code to account for this. In this session you’ll learn how to protect yourself from the cold, cruel world of invalid data, events that can “never” happen, and other developers’ mistakes.

As IT managers are faced with more challenging demands from stakeholders to bring products to market faster, they are faced with a shortage of qualified applicants and a number of positions to fill. The typical positions to top the list are security, infrastructure or developers. However, how often should managers think about the role of a business analyst and what value a person with this skill set might bring to the team? If you haven’t been thinking about a business analyst joining the team, you should!​

— Behavioural test is an acceptance test written in plain language that users can write and understand
— Explain the context, event and outcome in given-when-then format
— Can be written before, during or after development
— Writing behavioural tests before development is BDD (behaviour-driven development). Helps developers know when they’re done.
— Set of behaviour tests is a form of contract between users and app builders
— Can be slow to execute until automated and don’t reveal root cause

Microsoft Power Apps is a great option for businesses, as it’s a Low-Code Application Platform (LCAP) that makes it easy for professional and amateur developers to create apps. The average cost of developing an application is 74% less with Power Apps, as it’s an excellent way to save yourself a lot of time and money.

Users with various technical expertise levels can develop apps to focus on specific business functions, whether it’s related to IT, sales, finance, customer management, HR, etc.