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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
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Section 2: Building and Managing Code Components
12
Section 3: Enhancing Code Components and Your Development Experience

Adding multiple code components to a single Dataverse solution

Unlike the PCF project, which can contain only one component, the Dataverse solution project can contain references to multiple code components and different file paths. As we discussed at the beginning of this chapter, solutions are containers that can have multiple components – in this case, multiple code components. So, let's learn how to add multiple code components to our PowerMeUpDataverse solution project. We've already added the MyCharacterCounter code component to this project. Now, we are going to add the MyDataCard code component that we built during the course of this book. Consider C:\MyDataCardProject as the full path of this code component. Here, we will be executing the following command in VS Code, which is where the PowerMeUpDataverse solution project is open:

pac solution add-reference --path C:\MyDataCardProject

Once you've executed this command, the output should say that...