Microsoft recently unveiled the first stable version of FluentUI React v9 (@fluentui/react-components). This new edition of FluentUI is the result of joint efforts from the Office and Teams product teams to streamline their respective React front-end libraries into one component framework. To celebrate this 🎉, I have released 2 community…
Building modern front-end controls and application requires great care to keep the size of the assets as low as possible. The development of PowerApps Control Framework (PCF) controls doesn’t fall short from this rule. In this post I will show how to optimize the tree-shaking process and reduce the bundle…
In this episode of the Visual Studio Talk Show, I had the great pleasure to talk (In French) with Microsoft MVP’s Mario Cardinal and Guy Barette. We talked about the PowerPlatform in general and mostly about my open source PCF control projects.
One of the thing I like the most about PCF controls for the PowerPlatform is the ability to change the normal behavior and rendering of forms attributes to add a new twist to the user experience. With that in mind, for my latest community PCF control, ShieldsIO.Badge.PCF, I wanted to…
In the latest release of the LookupDropdown PCF control for Dataverse, I have added a new feature that adds support for related record filtering, hence the ability to filter the values of a dropdown in real-time based on the value of another lookup field. When rendered, this can produce nice…
Environment variables in Dataverse are a powerful vehicule to develop portable customizations between different environment. Recently, a new Secret Data Type was introduced that enables the use of secrets stored in Azure Key Vaults 🔐 . The integration between Dataverse and Azure Key Vault was long-awaited and I am really…
One of the most anticipated feature of the PowerApps Control Framework (PCF) last year was the Lookup datatype support. Hence the ability to bind a PCF control to a Lookup field in a Dataverse Model-Driven form to customize it’s behavior. The feature was released last summer (see official post) and…
In my last post I explained how to enable custom webpack configurations in a PowerApps Control Framework project. I also showed how to generate the source-map file of the generated PCF bundle. PCF controls – Custom Webpack configurations To continue on this track and push things a little further, I…
When developing Power Platform PCF controls, at build-time, Webpack is invoked to bundle the code and dependencies into deployable assets. While the out-of-the-box configurations are suitable for most of the basic PCF control needs, sometimes, you need to throw your own custom instructions in the game. This is what we…
In-App notifications for Model-Driven apps (still in preview at the time of writing) exposes a central notification hub in Power Platform model-driven apps and the notifications model provides a fantastic vehicle to deliver contextual and user-specific information. In this blog post, I will continue my exploration of In-App notifications and…
