Monday 11 April 2022

Power Platform Tool for Visual Studio 2019

 Power Platform Tool for Visual Studio 2019

We have a new Visual Studio Extension Power Platform Tool.

 Creation and deployment of Plugins, Custom Workflows and WebResources is going to be easy and time saving.

 This article is going to focus on how to connect to your environment and create your Visual Studio Solution. In a subsequent article I will try to cover on how to Create and deploy your components to your environment.

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Installation is straight forward go to

    Tools→ Manage Extensions→ Search for Power Platform Tools

    You will Need Visual Studio 2019 or later version
    Subsciption to Pawer App/Dataverse or trial 
    .Net Framework 4.6.2

Now we will go over how to create a Project and connect it to your Environment

  1. Open Visual Studio 2019 →New Project

  2. Search for Power Platform Solution Template


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  1. Add Project Name and Location →Create


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  2. Click on Start from Dataverse to connect to your environment


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  3. Enter the following and → Login

    1. Online Region

    2. User Name

    3. Password

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  4. Here is a list of environments available for you select your Dev environment and → Login

  5. Next window will prompt you a confirmation of the environment you are connecting → Next


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  6. From the drop down select your solution and → Done

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  7. Click Add New Template

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  8. Select Check boxes they names are self explanatory → Next


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  9. Name your projects → Done

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Thank you for reading :)

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