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…
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…
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,…
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 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…
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…
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