While I was starting a new PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) project, I stumbled upon the latest release notes of the framework’s main package (pcf-scripts v1.18.4). I was stoked 🤩 to see that they improved the performance of the bundling process by switching from babel-loaderto esbuild-loader. Let’s take this opportunity to…
This is the second part of a series on Storybook for PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) controls, where I take one of my community PCF control hosted on Github (CountryPicker.PCF) and implement a Storybook from scratch. While the first post, revolved around the setup and authoring process of the Storybook, this…
In the frontend development world, Storybook as emerged as the industry standard to showcase and test UI components. In this series of posts I will show how easy (and rewarding) it is to implement and publish a Storybook for a PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) project. That way users can have…
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…
