PCF in 2020 with Scott Durow

Scott Durow

Episode 92: Markus Erlandsson talks to Scott Durow from Develop1 about PowerApps Component Framework and how it has developed into what is today in 2020. Scott explains what types of Components there are with Field and Dataset and how it fits together with React, Fluent UI, TypeScript. Scott continues to explain how he has used PCF in his recent projects, and how he built them and how PCF is the answer to all of his prayers.

Bio

Scott is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP specializing in Dynamics 365. He is a committed and passionate software architect & technologist. Scott is a regular speaker at conferences in the UK and abroad. His software career spans more than 20 years where he has moved from assembly language device driver programming, industrial control software and then into enterprise business applications.
Scott is the author of the Ribbon Workbench for Dynamics CRM/365. He is also the principle author of SparkleXRM, the open-source Rich Client library for Dynamics CRM. He lives near Oxford in the UK with his wife, Kerrie, and three children.

Links

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/powerapps/developer/component-framework/overview

https://pcf.gallery/

Examples in github: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerApps-Samples/tree/master/component-framework

Soctt Durow on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/skier273

https://learn.develop1.net/

https://learn.develop1.net/courses/pcf-for-model-driven-apps

https://github.com/scottdurow

https://10times.com/power-platform-nordic-summit-stockholm, 24 Oct 2020

Powerthon – Power Platform Developer PCF Saturday
Day 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86oosrEexOs
where Scott comes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86oosrEexOs&feature=youtu.be&t=27236

Day 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idP66_QPvKM

Development, Debugging and Deployment with Jonas Rapp

Jonas Rapp Episode 66: Markus Erlandsson talks to Jonas Rapp from Avanade about how you can upgrade your development. Jonas starts with explaining how you can work with webresources to show to version control your customizations, and then to how you can use build tools form CRM. Then the discussion continues to test and how you can use Selenium or EasyRepro, then final notes on how to improve your plugin development with Plugin Trace viewer or the Canary plugin and the new release notes for October Release 2018

Bio:
Software developer since 1994.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM) since 2009.
XrmToolBox contributor since 2014.
Author of XrmToolBox tools: FetchXML Builder, Plugin Trace Viewer, Auto Number Manager, Latebound Constants Generator, Related Records Analyzer and Bulk Data Updater.
Also created Shuffle based tools for MSDyn365 DevOps.
Speaker at eXtreme365, D365 Saturday, Dynamics Bootcamp, xRMVirtual, D365UG.

Links:
WebResources Manager in XrmToolBox
Use Fiddler and Imposter to get files from disk
SparkleXRM
SolutionPackager
Dynamics 365 Build Tools for Visual Studio Team Services by Wael Hamze
SeleniumHQ Browser Automation
Configuration Migration Tool
EasyRepro, Microsoft Automated UI testing
Innofactor CRM CI Tools
Plugin Trace Viewer
Canary Plugin by Jonas Rapp
October 2018 Release notes
Jonas Rapp on Twitter
Jonas Rapps Blog