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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

Building a Dataverse project and obtaining the output

Before we understand the build process, you need to ensure that your local development machine is configured properly. If you plan on using VS Code for building the Dataverse project, then you need to confirm that the MSBUILD path has been registered on the system environment user variable. Usually, the MSBUILD executable file can be found under your latest Visual Studio folder. If you are unsure of where to find the MSBUILD executable file, then start PCF Builder for XrmToolBox and open the Settings window. You will be able to see MS Build Path on the settings window; copy this path. Perform the following steps to confirm or add the copied MSBUILD executable file path to your environment variable:

  1. From your VS Code terminal, execute the following command. This will open System Properties window:

    SystemPropertiesAdvanced

  2. Click on Environment Variables.
  3. Under the User variables section, select and double-click on Path...