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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
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Section 3: Enhancing Code Components and Your Development Experience

PCF Builder

PCF Builder enables you to build code components with ease where you do not need to write the CLI commands but still use Power Apps CLI under the hood. Most of the commands are consolidated, making it easier to build controls. It has two versions of itself; one provides a GUI as opposed to a command-line interface provided by Power Apps CLI, and the other version provides a guided experience for users. Both these versions are community built, with their source code available on GitHub, while links to the source code are provided in Further reading section of this chapter. PCF Builder also has a community chat room, where you can discuss new features or open issues. To join the chat room, you can use the following link: https://bit.ly/PCFBuilderChat.

Graphical user interface version

The version that provides a graphical user interface is a tool created for XrmToolBox, which is a Windows application that enables developers or admins to connect to the Dataverse environment...