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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

The types of project

In Chapter 2, Power Apps CLI, we briefly touched upon the types of project that can be initialized by Power Apps CLI, namely PCF, Dataverse solutions, and plugin projects. While working with code components, you will normally only deal with two of the three types of project—PCF and Dataverse solution projects. The PCF project contains all the files and references needed to create one single code component. Dataverse solution projects, on the other hand, create a solution file that can be deployed to any Dataverse environment. You can add one or multiple code components to a single Dataverse solution project. But a Dataverse solution project is not limited to code components and can contain other solution components, such as plugin assemblies. The file extension for a PCF project is .pcfproj, and Dataverse solution projects, at the time of writing, have .cdsproj as their extension. Each project should be in its own separate folder; they can be nested within...