Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook – Second Edition: Apply low-code recipes to solve everyday business challenges and become a Power Apps pro

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Practical recipes and real-world examples to help you create custom solutions and automate processes. Use Power Apps combined with Power Automate, Dataverse, the Component Framework, and Power Pages to implement RPA technologies and more.

Key Features:

Enhanced with added content on Power Pages, robotic process automation, map capabilities for canvas apps, solutions using mixed reality, and much moreExplore a variety of built-in templates to create custom apps for specific business scenariosStrengthen your enterprise applications with advanced techniques and proven tips using a low-code approach

Book Description:

Power Apps is a low-code platform owned by Microsoft. With this platform, you can create solutions to solve your business needs while integrating with other components of the Power Platform, such as Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Power BI, or others. This book is a handy solution guide to meet many organizational requirements. Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, Second Edition, takes a pragmatic approach where every business scenario is presented in a quick, practical, and action-oriented recipe. You will be able to use these instant solutions in your development environment and customize your business apps to meet challenging business needs. This will help you handle real-world scenarios and experiences to give you a head start in your Power Apps projects. You will discover various aspects of Power Apps, from building canvas apps, designing model-driven solutions, extending apps with custom connectors, integrating apps with other platforms, moving to the pro-developer side using Power Apps Component Framework, and creating website experiences for users beyond the organization with Power Pages.

By the end of this Microsoft Power Apps book, you will have gained experience in developing applications using the Power Apps platform and all its features.

What You Will Learn:

Learn to integrate and test canvas appsDesign model-driven solutions using various features of Microsoft DataverseAutomate business processes such as triggered events, status change notifications, and approval systems with Power AutomateImplement RPA technologies with Power AutomateExtend your platform using maps and Mixed RealityImplement AI Builder’s intelligent capabilities in your solutionsExtend your business applications’ capabilities using Power Apps Component FrameworkCreate website experiences for users beyond the organization with Microsoft Power Pages

Who this book is for:

This book is targeted at information workers and citizen developers wanting to develop custom applications for their organizations or the projects they are undertaking. Traditional app developers will also find this book useful by discovering how to use a rapid application development environment with increased productivity and speed. Readers are expected to have prior exposure to the Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem.

From the Publisher

What’s new in this second edition?

I always tell myself that in everything I do, there’s room for improvement. No matter the task or project, a new way of thinking can improve your process, or perhaps help you acquire new skills or tools.

Writing a book about a platform that’s always evolving is reason enough to get back to it and enhance its contents. This edition includes new recipes to tackle even more scenarios covering desktop flows, mixed reality, geospatial services, and external access with Power Pages.

Which chapter did you enjoy writing the most?

I really enjoyed building the recipes for this book. I love the whole low-code concept of Power Apps, from the model-driven side to Power Apps Component Framework, and from creating integration solutions with the help of Power Automate to solving a real-life issue with the help of mixed reality.

If I have to choose, it would be between Extending the Platform and Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting—a developer’s life is way better with components and because finding workarounds to solve issues is a rewarding feeling.

Who is the ideal reader of this book?

This book is best suited for someone who has started to work with Power Apps and is eager to take the platform to its limits. It will help you expand your problem-solving skills using the Power Platform. Getting to know all the components will serve you well in building powerful solutions.

What possibilities in Power Apps are you most excited to see develop in the future?

It’ll be interesting to see deeper integration between components of the Power Platform, but even more, improvements in the Power Fx language to help the application building process. Speaking of which, I’d love to see Power Fx everywhere in the platform.

I’m also looking forward to improvements in all of its code editors. Thankfully, these enhancements are a top priority for Microsoft.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing; 2nd ed. edition (August 30, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 414 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 180323802X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1803238029
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.58 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.25 x 7.52 x 0.86 inches