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Power Platform 2021 H1 – 6 Announcements You Should Know About

June 20, 2021 / Andrew Ly

I hope everyone in the community is staying safe and their families are well. 2021 has been a year of many stops and starts, but one thing that keeps moving forward is the evolution of the Microsoft Power Platform. As we approach the midpoint of the year, I feel as though now is a good time to reflect upon the announcements made at both the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) and Microsoft Build.

In this blog, I will quickly cover the top 6 features announced so far this year that will change the way you implement and use the Power Platform.

First look at PCF on Portals

April 1, 2021 / Andrew Ly

Over the past year we have seen the Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) evolve into a robust development framework for end user experiences.

Today the evolution continues with the official PCF support on Microsoft Portals with the Public Preview. I will be providing a first look at the upcoming PCF on Portals in this article and showing how you can get started with a quick start tutorial.

PCF Swipe Detection

October 9, 2020 / Andrew Ly

Swiping is an integral part of the mobile experience, and the PCF Swipe control enables swipe detection on Power Apps Canvas apps. In this article, I will step you through how you can build, deploy/test the Swipe detection PCF control.

PCF Control – Build your own Icons with Notifications

October 8, 2020 / Andrew Ly

Icons with Notifications are used heavily in app development to provide navigation and context within the same screen. In this PCF article, I will provide a walkthrough on how you can implement a PCF control for both Canvas and Model that enable you to build a navigation bar with icons.

Main Form Dialog – PCF Component

April 30, 2020 / Andrew Ly

This PCF component allows you to quickly create Account records by popping open the main account form without losing context of the previous record you were working on.

Big Year Ahead for UX in Power Platform and Dynamics 365

January 28, 2020 / Andrew Ly

Today the NDA is lifted on 2020 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.

In this blog I will be covering the User Experience (UX) enhancements within this release focusing particularly on the new visualisations, user interface improvements, and extensibility of controls across Model-Driven, Canvas, Mixed Reality, and Portals.

How to use Mock-Up Data in PCF CLI (July Update 2019)

August 1, 2019 / Andrew Ly

The updated PCF CLI tooling has just been released (July 2019), and one major enhancement is supporting mock datasets (Your Data within PCF Test Harness).

How to Create Buttons with Icons within PCF (using Font-Awesome)

July 17, 2019 / Andrew Ly

I’ve noticed that people in the PowerApps community have been having trouble using image resources within their custom PCF controls, so I thought I would look at a simple but novel approach for customizing your buttons and icons.

If you aren’t familiar with font-awesome they let you search from a catalog of great looking icons that you embed within your web apps.

In the following example, I created three buttons which have their own font-awesome icons. This was achieved by doing two things

PCF – Keybinding Example

May 17, 2019 / Andrew Ly

Here’s an early look at a Keybinding #PowerAppsComponentFramework control. This component was written to enable actions to be assigned to keyboard shortcuts. It uses MouseTrap.js library to perform this.

PCF Batch File – Quick Create PCF Project