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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

Chapter 8

  1. Correct Answer: b

    a. This command needs to be executed when building the solution project for the first time as it will restore all the project dependencies and then build the project.

    b. The rebuild switch notifies the msbuild command to clean the output directory before starting the build process, making sure you always have the latest build output.

  2. Correct Answer: a

    a. Just as a solution is a container for multiple components, similarly, a Dataverse solution project is a container for multiple project references, especially PCF projects. Hence, when you build a solution project, the output solution file will contain multiple code components.

    b. A single PCF project can only be used to create one code component.

  3. Correct Answer: b

    a. A solution that is packaged using the production version has the minified version of the code component, making it difficult to understand and debug the code.

    b. As was learned in Chapter 7 Authentication Profiles, when using the pac...