Famous words spoken by Hermione Granger after they defeated the troll.

We have really felt the impact of this during this hackathon. When venturing into new territory and using tools and setting up applications that are new and unfamiliar, we often rely on documentation to get started. More often than not, at some point the documentation fails us and we are blocked from getting further. That’s when you need friends to help unblock you.

Like when Philip helped Emil to install the correct version of .NET on his new computer to enable him to finish setting up the tooling needed to build his first PCF component.

Ulrikke got help from Andy Wingate when she got stuck setting up Business Central as a virtual table in Dataverse. Andy jumped on a Teams call in the early morning hours to help unblock her.

Stig got help from unexpected sources when he got stuck setting up a trial for Fabric in our demo environmnent. Fredrik Engseth from another team – BUT the same Hufflepuff HOUSE as us, overheard our conversation and helped us figure our a smart hack to get Dataverse connected to a developer instance of Fabric, using a Service Principal with cross tenant permissions. Thank you Fredrik <3

Sharing really is caring, and like Hermione says,

“Books And Cleverness – There Are More Important Things; Friendship And Bravery”

Bravery to ask a friend for help