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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

Managing authentication profiles

Once you have connected to several Dataverse environments, you might need to see which environments you have configured; you may also want to switch between them or delete one that you do not want. Each of these various functions has separate commands provided by Power Apps CLI. But these profiles can also be managed in PCF Builder. In this section, we will first take a look at all the commands provided by Power Apps CLI and later the process provided by PCF Builder.

Changing profiles using Power Apps CLI

If you want to check all the authentication profiles you are connected to, you need to run the following command in the command prompt:

pac auth list

The console will show you a list of all the profiles with an index number along with a star (*), followed by the type of environment, the URL, and the authenticated username. Refer to the following screenshot:

Figure 7.4 – List of profiles created on a machine

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