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In this episode I catch up with Allison Mulligan and Carl Cookson. Alison is the CEO of Maximus IT, a recruiter and user of D365 and the Power Platform. Alison is a massive advocate of Cloud technologies and the community. Carl is a Technical Architect at Avanade and X...

At work recently, I’ve been put on a project which is a big custom calculator built in a Canvas App, storing data in CDS. As I've been building, I've noted some interesting differences from model-driven app building and design to canvas. While this is to be expected, I...

In the digital era, it still strikes me as slightly odd that people still pass business cards. While LinkedIn and Twitter are my preferred medium, business cards are quick and easy ways to pass information between people and a lot of companies still collect them at in...

In this episode I speak to Emma D’Arcy and Chris Huntingford. Emma is a pre-sales consultant for ClickDimensions base in Philadelphia, a lover of computer games, cats and tattoos! Chris is a partner technical architect for the Power Platform at Microsoft; hailing from...

Canvas Apps have so much Power! You can make really complicated functionality and connections into the application which have near endless possibilities. Recently, I presented at Scottish Summit showing some of these possibilities and this included using the Microsoft...

I recently blogged about embedding a canvas app into a Model-driven app form and the potential that it unlocks. You can create really complex functionality, easily with canvas apps but you need to be able to write the data back to your Model-driven form to really unloc...

Today I launch Episode one of my Podcast, The Power Chatform. A podcast is something I’ve wanted to do for a while and I thought now was the time to do this. I started off with two of my favourite people in the world, Joe Griffin and Malin Donoso Martnes. We talked abo...

I blogged recently about embedding canvas apps into Model-driven apps  and how this can now be easily done. As part of my Scottish Summit presentation I embedded a canvas app into a Model-driven app and then took the prices of products in D365/CDS on the form, and conv...

Last year Microsoft released the ability to embed canvas apps into Model-driven Apps into general availability and also improved on the preview features they’d previously released. I wrote an article about an unsupported method to embed canvas apps  2 years ago, so I t...