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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

Chapter 5

  1. Correct Answer: b

    a. The command npm start will just initiate the testing but will not watch the files for changes.

    b. The command npm start watch indicates to the local web server to watch for any file changes. If any file is changed, then it will rebuild the project and reload the browser with new changes.

  2. Correct Answer: a

    a. The template with the option dataset is used to initialize the PCF project for views and sub-grids. The word dataset is used because we are creating a code component for multiple rows of data.

    b. There are only two options available when creating a PCF project; one is field, and another is dataset. The option field is used to initialize a PCF project for a single field or an attribute, whereas the option dataset is used to initialize a PCF project for a view or a sub-grid.

  3. Correct Answer: a

    a. The default file that the test harness accepts is the .cvs file.

    b. No matter how you format your .xlsx file, it will not be parsed by the test harness...