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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

Using the Power Apps component library

This chapter shows us the advantages of using components when building and maintaining applications. We encapsulate controls that work together for one purpose and then reuse them across our application.

However, if we wanted to use a specific component across several applications, our only resort would be to export this component and import it manually in each application. This process breaks maintainability because each application has an independent copy of the component. If we update one component, all others remain unchanged. In fact, exporting and importing components is a feature being retired shortly.

The Power Apps component library is the solution to this. It acts as an independent library that can hold all the components you want to share across your applications. The best part is that if you update one from the library, the rest of the applications connected to this library will get an update notification creating seamless...