Stop Clicking, Start Prompting! Visual Studio Code and Agentic AI for Power Platform Builders

Most Power Platform makers have heard the phrase "fusion development" but haven't crossed the line yet. Visual Studio Code can feel like a developer tool, and not a maker tool. In this session I hope to change that perception. Visual Studio Code is not that scary!

In this hands-on intro, I'll walk you through setting up Visual Studio Code specifically for Power Platform work: what extensions matter, how to connect GitHub Copilot and Claude Code as your agentic pair-programmers, how to add and create skills, and how MCP servers can wire your AI tools directly into your Power Platform environment.

We'll look at how makers like yourselves can use natural language to build code-first Power Apps, single-page application websites, and generative pages, all without needing to memorize complex syntax or switch mental models entirely.

This isn't a "here's what's theoretically possible" session. It's a practical starting point for Power Platform makers who want to move faster, build more ambitious things, and get on the AI wave that's already reshaping the pro-code world.

This is for Power Platform makers who want to take their first serious step into code-first development, no prior Visual Studio Code experience required!

Are you ready to make the leap?

Forgotten features of Dataverse: Hidden gems that enhance agents, apps, and everything in between!

Microsoft Dataverse has been powering enterprise applications since the early Dynamics CRM days, and along the way it’s collected a surprising number of features that most teams never use, or don’t even know exist. In this session, we’ll surface those hidden gems and show how they can simplify integrations, strengthen solution design, and accelerate the new wave of AI, Copilots and agent-driven Power Apps.

Some examples; we’ll look at server-side Exchange integration, the Dynamics 365 App for Outlook, polymorphic lookups, field mappings, static workflows, and much more! Capabilities that quietly solve real-world problems without added complexity.

If you build on Dataverse, this session will help you get more value from the platform you already have by rediscovering classic features that still deliver today.

Power Pages: Bring your own code!

Power Pages has been the low-code/no-code platform for building externally facing websites and portals connected to Microsoft Dataverse.

But what if you need the speed, fluidity, and modern feel of a React powered Single Page Application (SPA)?

With Microsoft recently enabling code-first experiences in Power Pages + AI assisted development, makers and pro-developers can now push boundaries and rethink how solutions are built. Its truly the best of both worlds!

In this session, together we will build a website using React, connect it to Dataverse using the Power Pages Web API, add Entra External ID authentication, and deploy as a Power Pages website!

Get ready for the new generation of building powerful Power Pages applications!

Takeaways:
How to use vibe coding techniques for generating SPA Power Pages websites. (LIVE DEMO!)
Understand the architecture and setup required for SPA development in Power Pages.
Learn the key benefits of SPAs: responsiveness, modern UX, and performance.
Explore limitations and trade-offs when adopting SPAs in Power Pages.
Gain real-world insights from lessons learned building SPAs compared to traditional Power Pages sites.
Get practical guidance on deciding when (and when not) to choose SPA architecture.

Build your first AI Agents with Microsoft’s Agent Academy Live!

Description
AI agents are moving fast from buzzword to business reality. Many professionals want to skill up but struggle to find the time, guidance, or structured learning path to get started.

Is this you? Is learning how to build and extend agents in Copilot Studio a to-do list item that keeps getting pushed?

Join us in Las Vegas and earn your AI Agent recruit badge!

This workshop brings the official Microsoft Agent Academy curriculum to life in a fun, interactive, and community-driven setting. You’ll leave with both hands-on skills and the confidence to continue your AI journey.

Objectives / Takeaways:
By the end of this workshop, as an attendee, you will be able to:
• Understand the fundamentals of AI agents and their role in modern business solutions
• Follow the Agent Academy curriculum with step-by-step guidance and group exercises
• Design and build your first working AI agents using Copilot Studio and Power Platform integrations
• Connect agents to real-world scenarios, improving productivity and customer engagement
• Take home resources, labs, and patterns to continue learning and applying agents after the event
• Network with like minded community members and make new friends who are on the same learning journey as you!

Approach / Delivery:
• Guided hands-on labs following the Agent Academy modules
• Small group exercises to foster peer learning and collaboration
• Real-world examples to ground abstract concepts in business scenarios
• Open Q&A and troubleshooting with the facilitators throughout the day
• A wrap-up session with tips on extending agents beyond the curriculum

The workshop is led by community focused MVPs with many years of real-world experience delivering solutions to end customers. This workshop is a rare opportunity to get skilled quickly in a fun way!

Essentially a full day workshop delivering the published "Agent Academy Recruit" content developed by the advocate team. Re-worked for June 2026 Copilot Studio updates.

Developers guide to Power Pages

Microsoft Power Pages, formerly known as Power Apps portals, provide a platform for makers to create low-code, no-code externally facing web applications based on Microsoft Dataverse. The available authoring tools provide the ability to achieve a lot, however, in every project there are also special requirements that require you - the pro-developer to get involved and save the day. This session outlines the technology available to Power Pages developers such as Liquid templates, JavaScript, portal Web API, code components and more with real-world examples of working code.

The session also dives into tools such as the Power Platform CLI, VS Code and other community tools to ensure a developer is successful and productive.

Prepare to crack open some code and dive into building advanced Power Pages sites and applications!

Dataverse Data modeling: Don't build that app just yet!

I get it. You have an awesome idea for an app and want to dive in. The tools (and now Copilots) provided by the Power Platform just make it soooo easy for makers to dive and start building powerful business applications.

But wait, a bit of pre-planning might save hours of refactoring and dealing with technical debt down the road.

Planning and designing your data model is a crucial early step and investing the time early will result in successful applications.

This session goes through the various aspects in properly designing a data model, how to effectively use AI to help the design process and also apply experience and common sense.

Highlights of this presentation:
- Strategies for identifying objects, attributes and relationships of real-world concepts.
- Considerations for managing 100s, 1000s or maybe even millions of records?
- How is the data being added, maintained, archived?
- What kind of app is this going to be? A Power App, Power Pages site, custom? What about offline capabilities?
- What kind of crazy automation requirements will your app need? Can Power Automate handle your crazy data model?

Join this session for an entertaining tutorial and maybe a few horror stories that go beyond drawing boxes and lines on a whiteboard.

I will need a white board to draw boxes and lines. (Just kidding).

Crash course in Power Platform pipelines!

Are you still manually importing and exporting solutions in your Power Platform projects? Just STOP!

Setting up application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities in Power Platform projects has traditionally been both time consuming and complicated. While important, ALM has mostly been applied to larger enterprise projects.

The new Power Platform pipelines feature provides an easy to setup and easy to follow process for admins and makers to follow healthy ALM practices for projects, ranging from small to complex.

This session walks through the process of setting up Power Platform pipelines and with demonstrations of how easy it is to create and manage a Power Platform solution and deploy it from dev to test, and then to production.

We'll consider some of the more complicated aspects, such as configuring connection references, using delegated service accounts and managing environment variables.

We'll also discuss some real world scenarios and pitfalls for you to avoid!

Attend this session and start deploying solutions faster and more efficiently using Power Platform pipelines!

Deep dive into Power Pages ALM

You've built your amazing Power Pages website in your development environment, but what is the best way to move it to your test and production environments, as well as checking in and managing source control?

This session dives into best practices, tips, lessons learned and techniques for applying ALM (application lifecycle management) to your Power Pages projects.

Learn about:
- What makes Power Pages configuration unique
- Power Platform pipelines
- Azure Dev Ops
- Github actions.
- Source control

Ramp up your Power Pages ALM skills in this entertaining and informative session!

Power Pages jump start workshop

The Power Pages jump start workshop ramps up Power Platform/Dynamics 365 solution architects, functional consultants and developers on how to set up, configure and administer a data driven website using Power Pages.

Mixed with presentations and hands-on labs, you will provision a website and begin to build an actual working website project covering key concepts along the way.

Learners will add content and see how to securely expose and interact with data from Microsoft Dataverse/Dynamics 365. Learners will also see how to extend basic portal functionality to address a unique line of business requirements and corporate branding.

After the workshop, the attendee should be able to confidently implement and deliver a Power Pages project.

Prerequisites
Learners should be comfortable configuring and customizing Model-driven Power Apps/Dataverse or Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and understand Power Platform Dataverse concepts such as tables, forms, views, columns and flows. A learner does not need to be a developer or web designer, but some basic familiarity with HTML, CSS and JavaScript would be beneficial.

Learners completely new to the Power Platform should consider the beginner "Power Pages in a day" content available from Microsoft.