// hands-on notes

The Workbench

Hands-on with AI, Copilot Studio, and the Power Platform, by Mariano Gomez, Former Microsoft MVP (2008-2024).

October 13, 2026

Power Apps | The Page That Reports Itself

A generative page is React code that an agent wrote on your behalf. Which means that the first time one fails in front of a user, someb...

October 08, 2026

Back on September 4th I wrote about the model app builder , the Power Platform plugin that stands up a model-driven app from a descript...

October 05, 2026

If you have an MCP server manifest sitting on your disk right now, there is a good chance it is already out of date. And you have until...

October 02, 2026

If you have spent any real time modeling security in Dataverse, you have had this conversation. A customer wants "this group of pe...

September 30, 2026

Every so often a question comes back around wearing a different costume. The version I have fielded most often, in one form or another,...

September 21, 2026

There is a particular kind of bad afternoon in this business. You have built the thing, it works, you demo it, everyone is happy. Then ...

September 17, 2026

Anyone who has built anything nontrivial on Microsoft Dataverse knows the tax. You want to stand up a small data model, load a few thou...