JSON files are one of the most common and convenient ways to store structured data. They’re lightweight, human-readable, and easy to parse in JavaScript. In PCF Control development, they can be used a quick and convenient way to store and access static data. In this post, I’ll show you how…
Have you ever been unable to properly build a PCF control because of linting errors? Well, lately I have, and it can get really frustrating. Especially when the errors have nothing to do with your code, but are caused by an unexpected failure in the way the PCF framework handles…
When you configure a PCF control on a Dataverse model-driven app, the form designer will try to render the control even though it’s not running in the actual app context. This usually isn’t a problem, but for complex controls that depend on runtime data, it can cause errors—and even break…
Although not officially released, there are strong signals that the support for Dark mode 🌚 is coming very soon to Power Platform Model-Driven apps. Recent investments made in the platform like the ‘New look‘ that leverages the Fluent 2 design system are paving the way to Dark Mode. 🔗 Adapting…
Recently, while developing a PCF control with the FluentUI React v9 library, I encountered a rather unusual and annoying runtime display bug. Its resolution ended up shedding light on an important concept that had previously escaped my attention and I thought it deserves its own blog post. 🤒The symptoms The…
If you’re a user of a Power Platform’s model-driven app, you’ve likely come across the ‘Try the new look‘ switch appearing on your app header. Indeed, toggling this switch will result in the platform adopting a modern Fluent Design System (a.k.a. Fluent 2) for rendering model-driven form elements such as…
The Power Apps grid control is a new and improved version for the data grid control for Power Platform model-driven applications. It introduces a modern data grid user experience and a range of noteworthy features, including the ability to perform inline editing and seamless infinite scrolling of the grid records,…
I was working on a new PCF control project and I encountered an unexpected error when attempting to build the project, even though no custom code had been added yet. (Cannot find module ajv/dist/compile/codegen) For reference, I’m using the latest version (at the time of writing) of the Microsoft Power…
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…
