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Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, 2e - Second Edition

By : Eickhel Mendoza
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Book Image

Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, 2e - Second Edition

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By: Eickhel Mendoza

Overview of this book

Power Apps is a low-code platform owned by Microsoft. With this platform, you can create solutions to solve your business needs while integrating with other components of the Power Platform, such as Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Power BI, and others. This book is a handy solution guide to meet many organizational requirements. Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, Second Edition, takes a pragmatic approach where every business scenario is presented in a quick, practical, and action-oriented recipe. You will be able to use these instant solutions in your development environment and customize your business apps to meet challenging business needs. This will help you handle real-world scenarios and experiences to give you a head start in your Power Apps projects. You will discover various aspects of Power Apps, from building canvas apps, designing model-driven solutions, extending apps with custom connectors, and integrating apps with other platforms, to the pro-developer side including Power Apps Component Framework and creating website experiences for external users with Power Pages. By the end of this Microsoft Power Apps book, you will have gained experience in developing applications using the Power Apps platform and all its features.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Extending the Platform

The Power Platform is composed of several tools and services dedicated to building solutions that help improve organizational procedures. The tools we use to create applications and integrations offer a range of standard features in their field while leaving room for extensibility.

When building applications, you need to create interfaces that interact with your end-users, and in this process, you might need to repeat a set of controls such as headers, menus, loaders, etc. This task can be tedious as it slows down development when a new change is needed.

In this chapter, we will learn how to speed up the application-building process using components. These elements allow the creation of small building blocks that focus on a specific task by encapsulating a set of controls to be reused across your application. You will also learn how to create custom connectors in your environments to connect to data sources using tools your developers already use, such...