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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

Creating authentication profiles

Power Apps CLI provides a command to create authentication profiles, but you can also leverage a graphical interface provided by the PCF Builder for XrmToolBox to create your authentication profiles.

Let's look at both methods, starting with using the command provided by Power Apps CLI.

Creating profiles using Power Apps CLI

The command to create an authentication profile provided by Power Apps CLI is as follows:

pac auth create --url UrlReplace

Let's now begin with the steps for this:

  1. Open a Command Prompt and using the provided command, replace UrlReplace with the actual URL for your Dataverse environment, which will look something like https://xyz.crm.dynamics.com.
  2. When you hit Enter, the system will prompt you with a login screen, where you need to enter your credentials pertaining to that environment.
  3. Once you have successfully logged in, the system will show a message on the console stating Authentication...