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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

What is Power Apps CLI?

Power Apps CLI is a command-line interface that provides developers with a set of commands to work with PCF, Dataverse solutions, plugins, and much more. It is the first step toward a comprehensive application lifecycle management (ALM) story where the developers can create, build, and publish their projects quickly and effectively.

A set of commands provided by Power Apps CLI helps you to create a PCF project that will enable you to develop code components. It also provides you with a command to create a Dataverse solution project that will help you package your code components, which can be deployed to any Dataverse environment. The command related to a plugin project initializes a class library with a plugin base and example plugin classes. It also provides commands to authenticate and manage various Dataverse environments.

There are multiple community-built tools to begin your journey of building code components but beneath all those tools, the core...