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Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework

By : Danish Naglekar
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework

By: Danish Naglekar

Overview of this book

Power Apps Component Framework is used by professional developers to extend the capabilities of model-driven and canvas apps. Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework will take you through the basic as well as advanced topics using practical examples. The book starts by helping you understand the fundamentals of the framework, its lifecycle, and the tools that you'll use to build code components using best practices and file management guidelines. You'll then learn how to extend Power Apps step by step and apply the principles and concepts covered in the book to build code components for field type attributes. The book covers different ways of debugging code components and guides you through the process of building code components for datasets. You'll also explore the functions and methods provided by the framework to enhance your controls using powerful sets of libraries and extensions. As you advance, you'll get to grips with creating and managing authentication profiles, discover different ways of deploying code components, and configure code components in model-driven and canvas apps. Finally, you'll learn some of the important features of the framework and learn modern web development practices. By the end of this Power Apps book, you'll be able to build, debug, enrich, and deploy code components confidently.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Fundamentals of the Power Apps Component Framework
6
Section 2: Building and Managing Code Components
12
Section 3: Enhancing Code Components and Your Development Experience

Deploying new code components to an existing solution

What if you already have a solution created in your Dataverse environment and you want to add the new code components to an existing Dataverse solution. There are couple of ways you can achieve that; either using Power Apps CLI or using PCF Builder for XrmToolBox.

Let us first understand the process of using an existing solution to add a new code component using Power Apps CLI.

Using the solution clone command of the Power Apps CLI

The Power Apps CLI provides us with a command that enables us to create a Dataverse solution project from an existing solution in the Dataverse environment. To create the solution project, the tool needs to connect to your Dataverse environment, which is why it uses the authentication profile for the same.

Before you start creating a solution project from an existing solution, you need to make sure you are connected to a proper Dataverse environment. Execute the following command that we learned...