What this book covers
Chapter 1, App Maker Basics, serves as the base instructions for building the subsequent recipes. Instead of repeating these steps in each recipe, we concentrate them in to one chapter for tasks such as creating a Dataverse solution or building a SharePoint list.
Chapter 2, Building Pixel-Perfect Solutions with Canvas Apps, starts with the best practices for building canvas apps and continues with creating sample solutions, including coverage of the data source handling.
Chapter 3, Building from Data with Model-Driven Apps, continues our journey by following a collection of recipes joined together to create an all-around help desk solution. We will also explore the Entity Relationship Diagram capabilities from the maker Copilot in Power Apps.
Chapter 4, Choosing the Right Data Source for your Applications, will help you to make a sound decision when determining the data source of your applications. This chapter also explains the importance of the licensing model on this platform.
Chapter 5, Automating Processes with Power Automate, focuses on several use cases, from inside and outside the Microsoft ecosystem, to improve business processes using this component of the Power Platform.
Chapter 6, Extending the Platform, builds upon the concept of enhancing the application-building process by using components. We will also learn how to extend the platform by creating custom connectors, using geospatial capabilities, and integrating mixed reality.
Chapter 7, Improving User Experience, looks at how to enrich your user interfaces to make your applications more appealing to end users. This chapter will also cover how to create a responsive application using the latest techniques available in Power Apps.
Chapter 8, Power Apps Everywhere, explains all the possible ways to use and integrate Power Apps on many platforms, from mobile device consumption to embedding scenarios on SharePoint and Power BI, without forgetting the latest on Microsoft Teams development, including Dataverse for Teams.
Chapter 9, Empowering Your Applications with AI Builder, focuses on using AI Builder solutions to improve our applications and processes by bringing artificial intelligence into the mix, including Copilot.
Chapter 10, Discovering the Power Platform Admin Center, is about learning how to manage the Power Platform using the tools and settings available in this admin center.
Chapter 11, Tips, Tricks, and Workarounds, offers a collection of hints from the application-building experience in Power Apps with a set of topics that will help solve or improve a wide variety of scenarios.
Chapter 12, Advanced Techniques with Power Apps Component Framework, tackles the pro-developer side by building a Power Apps Component Framework component from scratch. We will look at setting up our development environment, deploying the component to an environment, and using it on a canvas app.
Chapter 13, Reaching Beyond the Organization with Power Pages, introduces the Power Pages component. It offers a solution to allow external users to interact with our Dataverse data. This chapter will extend the help desk solution built in previous chapters.
