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Power Apps Code Apps: A Complete Guide to Building Apps with Pro Code and AI

Power Apps has traditionally been associated with low-code development. Code Apps introduce a different approach: building Power Apps as React-based single-page applications using pro-code, while still taking advantage of the Power Platform. What are Code Apps? A little background, one of the strengths of Power Apps has been it’s low code tools, with the ability to create applications quickly through it’s Maker UI. These apps could be extended through pro-code … Continue reading Power Apps Code Apps: A Complete Guide to Building Apps with Pro Code and AI

Enabling and Demo of Claude Fable 5 in Copilot Studio

Claude Fable 5 is now available in Microsoft Copilot Studio. Fable 5 is Anthropic’s high-end model primarily designed for hard, long-running work where you need the AI to reason, use tools, and keep working with relatively little supervision. To enable it, an admin can go to https://admin.microsoft.com, then select Copilot->Settings->AI Models in Preview, then select Anthropic Models with Data Retention. Enable for All Users or you can select specific users … Continue reading Enabling and Demo of Claude Fable 5 in Copilot Studio

Timeline of AI Models Cheat Sheet

Below is a timeline of all AI models from some of the major vendors. Note, data may be incomplete or inaccurate. Assume up-to the publishing date. Date Vendor Model / family Type Strengths / expertise Jun-18 🟢 OpenAI GPT-1 🧠 General · 🔬 Research The foundational Generative Pre-trained Transformer: demonstrated transfer learning from large-scale language pretraining. Feb-19 🟢 OpenAI GPT-2 🧠 General Major leap in generative text quality · ✍️ … Continue reading Timeline of AI Models Cheat Sheet

Creating a Gen Page using Copilot CLI

In a previous post we looked at creating Gen Pages using VS Code. In this post, we will look at how to do this using the Copilot CLI. First, install and configure the Copilot CLI. Once complete, run copilot to start the CLI and log into GitHub with login: copilot To use gen pages, we’re going to run the command: /genpage Our AI comes back with: And we’re now prompted … Continue reading Creating a Gen Page using Copilot CLI

Using AI to Build Power Apps with Gen Pages

Microsoft has made several advancements when it comes to using AI to build Power Apps. In this post, we will look at Generative Pages, or Gen Pages. Gen Pages is a technology that allows users to generate Power Apps pages, and more. In the past, we have relied on the Power Apps Maker Portal UI to build Power Apps model-driven app forms, which are restricted is various ways. With Gen … Continue reading Using AI to Build Power Apps with Gen Pages

How to Install and Use Copilot CLI

Copilot CLI is GitHub’s command line tool that helps you build and manage code. To install Copilot CLI, go to https://github.com/features/copilot/cli: and the Install Now button: Depending on your OS and installation, you can use one of the options below: Cross-platform (npm) (Node.js 22+). npm install -g @github/copilot Windows (WinGet) winget install GitHub.Copilot macOS/Linux (Homebrew) brew install –cask copilot-cli If you run into an error like below – “Not Found … Continue reading How to Install and Use Copilot CLI

How to Install GitHub Copilot in VS Code

To install GitHub Copilot in VS Code, open VS Code and go to Extensions on the left, then search for GitHub Copilot. Note the “GitHub Copilot” extension has been deprecated: What we’re looking for is the GitHub Copilot Chat extension. Go ahead and click on Enable AI Features: Once you do that, in the bottom right you will see this Robot icon. Clicking on it will show which plan you … Continue reading How to Install GitHub Copilot in VS Code

Using the Microsoft Learn MCP Server

Did you know Microsoft Learn, the site which contains a ton of information on implementing Microsoft technologies, has an MCP Server? This means you can utilize the MS Learn knowledge in your own agents through MCP. Let’s look at how to do this. We will use Copilot Studio to build our agent. First, go to Copilot Studio and create a new agent: Let’s call the agent Microsoft Learn Agent, and … Continue reading Using the Microsoft Learn MCP Server

Creating an Agent with Actions in Azure AI Foundry

Azure AI Foundry is an Azure service where you can create agents using various LLMs (including your own). In this post we will look at how to create an agent in Azure AI Foundry that can call actions. Let’s head to Azure AI Foundry to create our agent. AI Foundry is accessible at https://ai.azure.com, however if you don’t have an AI Foundry resource created you may run into the error … Continue reading Creating an Agent with Actions in Azure AI Foundry

How to use Multistep Forms in Power Pages

Multistep Forms are a great way to capture information from Power Pages users. In this post, we will look at how to use multistep forms and some of the capabilities these forms have. Let’s go through an example where we are asking a new contact to enter information about themselves on a Power Pages site. We will start with one step and one table, then add from there. Adding One … Continue reading How to use Multistep Forms in Power Pages