How can developers use source control effectively when managing Power Platform solutions across multiple environments?
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Power Platform development should treat solutions as application artifacts, not as changes that are manually copied between environments. Solutions package Dataverse customizations and their dependencies so they can be transported between environments.
A professional ALM flow might be:
Developer → Dev Environment → Git → Build/Validation → Test → UAT → Production
Developers should use appropriate branching and pull-request practices, maintain solution structure carefully, and avoid making uncontrolled changes directly in production.
Environment-specific configuration should be separated from application logic using mechanisms such as environment variables, so the same solution can move between environments without hard-coded URLs, identifiers or configuration values.
Microsoft's current Power Platform tooling also supports Git/source-control and Azure DevOps-based build and deployment scenarios.
Practical project: Build a Power Platform solution in Dev, commit it to Git, validate it through a pipeline, deploy it to Test/UAT and finally promote the managed solution to Production.