Visual Studio connected service
Developers can use Connected Services within Visual Studio to create custom connectors. Connected Services is a collection of tools in Visual Studio that help you connect to services. With the existing capabilities developers have to build Microsoft Azure Functions or APIs in Visual Studio, the Connected Services integration offers a complete end-to-end experience in custom connector development.
For Visual Studio 2022 17.7, we added Connected Services support for the Microsoft Power Platform for ASP.NET Core web API projects. This integration allows you to:
- Connect to a Power Platform environment.
- Automatically generate a custom connector for your Power Platform environment.
- Configure a dev tunnel to locally connect to your custom connector.
Dev tunnels create an ad-hoc connection between your web API running locally and your Power Apps. You can use them to locally test and debug your web API in the context of the Power Platform in real-time (inner loop).
Prerequisites
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 with the ASP.NET and web development workload installed. You need to be signed in to Visual Studio to create and use dev tunnels. The feature isn't available in Visual Studio for Mac.
Limitations
The current integration works only for the following configurations of dev tunnels:
- Tunnel type: Persistent
- Access type: Public
Next steps
To get started, right-click the Connected Services node in Solution Explorer and select Manage Connected Services. Search for and select Power Platform, and then set up your connection.