// hands-on notes

The Workbench

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

October 30, 2026

Power Apps | Staged, Not Saved

A file in the new Attachments control for canvas apps can be in one of three states, and only one of them is in your database. That s...

October 22, 2026

For most of 2026, a generative page in a model-driven app was a one-way street. A form script could open one inline or as a dialog and ...

October 19, 2026

Put an unquoted colon in the description of a Copilot Studio skill and nothing will tell you. Copilot Studio skips the skill, loads the...

October 16, 2026

Copilot Studio agents built on the GitHub Copilot harness can now run one of your workflows before every tool call, and that workflow i...

October 13, 2026

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If you have an MCP server manifest sitting on your disk right now, there is a good chance it is already out of date.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