Power Platform Developer Suite

Developer platform for Microsoft Power Platform and Dataverse. PPDS ships a CLI, TUI, VS Code extension, MCP server, and NuGet libraries — each surface independently consumable, all developed in parallel. Install only what you need.

v1.0 Highlights

• SQL query engine with an SSMS-like experience, TDS endpoint routing, and DML support
• VS Code extension with profile/environment management, solutions browser, and .ppdsnb notebooks
• Interactive TUI with menu-driven workflows for exploration and one-off tasks
• MCP server exposing 20+ Dataverse tools to AI assistants
• Declarative plugin registration via attributes — no Plugin Registration Tool required
• Fast bulk data operations over pooled Dataverse connections

See docs/whats-new-v1.md for the full v1.0 feature inventory.

Quick Start

# Install the CLI tool
dotnet tool install -g PPDS.Cli

# Launch interactive TUI
ppds

# Or run commands directly
ppds auth create --name dev
ppds env select --environment "My Environment"
ppds data export --schema schema.xml --output data.zip

Platform Overview

Component	Type	Install	Requirement
ppds	CLI + TUI	dotnet tool install -g PPDS.Cli	.NET 8.0+ (Windows / macOS / Linux)
VS Code Extension	IDE Extension	Marketplace	VS Code 1.116+
ppds-mcp-server	MCP Server	dotnet tool install -g PPDS.Mcp	.NET 8.0+

NuGet Libraries

Package	NuGet	Description
PPDS.Plugins		Declarative plugin registration attributes (net462)
PPDS.Dataverse		High-performance connection pooling and bulk operations
PPDS.Migration		High-performance data migration engine
PPDS.Auth		Authentication profiles and credential management
PPDS.Query		SQL query engine with FetchXML transpilation and ADO.NET provider
PPDS.Cli		CLI tool with TUI (.NET tool)
PPDS.Mcp		MCP server for AI assistants (.NET tool)

All libraries except PPDS.Plugins target net8.0, net9.0, and net10.0. Per-package documentation lives in each package's README.

CLI Commands

Command	Purpose
ppds auth	Authentication profiles (create, list, select, delete, update, who)
ppds env	Environment discovery and selection (list, select, who)
ppds data	Data operations (export, import, copy, schema, users, load, truncate)
ppds plugins	Plugin registration (extract, deploy, diff, list, clean)
ppds metadata	Schema browsing and authoring (entities, attributes, relationships, keys, optionsets)
ppds query	Execute queries (fetch, sql, explain, history)
ppds serve	Run RPC daemon for VS Code extension

Related Projects

Project	Description
ppds-docs	Documentation site (source)
ppds-tools	PowerShell deployment module
ppds-alm	CI/CD pipeline templates
ppds-demo	Reference implementation
Claude Code templates	PPDS integration for Claude Code users

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, build instructions, and guidelines.

License

PPDS is distributed under the MIT License — see LICENSE for the full text.

Third-party components and vendored source (including a subset of microsoft/git-credential-manager for credential storage) are attributed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.