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In this blog I am going to walk you through on creating a PCF control step by step from scratch. Technically speaking it will be through a series of blogs. However this is the first of the 6 and as they say, the introduction should make the first impression.
Before I stepped in the wonderful world of Dynamics, I used to develop custom controls in ASP.NET. Couple of days back Microsoft announced the release of Power Apps component framework using which you can develop custom controls and use it on Dynamics forms.
I was absolutely thrilled when it was introduced. It was kind of nostalgia for me. Going back to the glory old days of custom control development.
So I started reading this pre-release Microsoft documentation.
As I was reading I could find all the pieces of information are documented. However there are certain areas in documentation where developers will get stuck. Also the documentation does not have an end to end walk through to build a control, test it and insert it on Model Driven app.
In this blog I will cover a detail step by step guide on how to build a PCF control from scratch and use it in your Model driven apps. Putting the entire content in a single blog would be quite daunting.
So I have come up with a series of blogs which are logically divided to get you started building a control from scratch and use it in Model driven app UI. I strongly suggest to go through the below blogs in order of their appearance.
- Understanding PCF control Framework and control lifecycle
- Set up development environment and Custom Component Project for PCF Control
- Set-up Manifest file for your PCF Control
- Develop your PCF Control UI and events
- Build, Test and Deploy your PCF Control
- Embed your Custom control on Model Driven App from/ Dynamics 365 Form
Hope this helps!
Debajit Dutta
(Business Solutions MVP)
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Reblogged this on Nishant Rana's Weblog and commented:
Step by Step series on understanding and developing PowerApps Custom Controls using PowerApps Component Framework.
Thanks Debajit for all this wonderful step by step guide 🙂