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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

Understanding authentication profiles

Let's first understand what authentication profiles are. Authentication profiles are connections that have been verified by a Microsoft authentication service to a particular Dataverse environment and are saved on your local machine in the form of JSON files. These connections are machine-specific, so if you change your machine, you will have to re-create the profiles.

Now let's understand why these authentication profiles are needed. In previous chapters, we discussed that some of the capabilities provided by the Power Apps component framework cannot be tested using the test harness, and we need to deploy code components to a live Dataverse environment in a very streamlined, quick, and reliable way. Authentication profiles provide that ability. This makes it easier for us to perform our end-to-end testing of code components.

So, let's look at how to create these profiles.