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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 the complete development cycle

So far, we have learned about few ways a code component can be deployed to a Dataverse environment. But the biggest question is, which strategy should we use and when? Thanks to Scott Durow, who helped me with the following flow chart that explains the complete development and deployment process that's involved when you're building a code component:

Figure 8.13 – Complete development flow for building a code component

As you can see, we have used different deployment strategies throughout this process. We also used Solution Packager to extract and pack the solution that allows incremental pack and unpack functionality, which can be used during the automated build and release pipelines providing full application life cycle management for your Power Platform.

Remember

Whenever you change the control manifest file, you will have to increment the versions in the manifest file of the PCF project...