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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

Debugging in model-driven apps

In certain scenarios, you will want to deploy your code component to a model-driven app. The deployment and configuration of code components are covered in Chapter 8, Introduction to the Dataverse Project, and Chapter 9, Configuring Code Components in Power Apps, and this section assumes that you have configured code components in model-driven apps. So, we will look at how to debug a code component once it is deployed and configured. For this tutorial, we will be using AutoResponder in Fiddler Classic, which is a tool that allows us to perform web debugging for any process that logs and inspects all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the internet. The process can be for a standard browser or a desktop application; if there is traffic between your computer and the internet, then the tool allows you to perform a multitude of operations on those requests and responses. Let's see how to go about it.

Installing and configuring Fiddler Classic...