PL-400 – Microsoft Power Platform Developer

About the Course

The Microsoft Power Platform helps organizations optimize their operations by simplifying, automating and transforming business tasks and processes. In this course, students will learn how to design, develop, test, and troubleshoot solution components that use the extension points of Microsoft Power Platform. You use traditional code to solve challenges not appropriate with low-code.

There are currently no scheduled sessions available for this course. However, feel free to contact us for more information or to inquire about upcoming sessions.

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Course Outline

1. Use imperative development techniques for canvas apps in Power Apps
• Imperative versus declarative development
• The three types of variables in Power Apps
• Global variables
• Contextual variables
• Collections
• Additional variable concepts

2. Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app
• Sometimes you need something more than forms
• Use the Patch function to create and edit records
• Delete records from data sources and collections
• Use the Patch function to update a Gallery

3. Use Dataverse choice columns with formulas
• Filter Dataverse choice columns with Power Fx formulas
• Modify choice and choices values

4. Reduce complexity in your data model with Dataverse table relationships
• Work with one-to-many relationships
• Work with many-to-many relationships

5. Work with relational data in a Power Apps canvas app
• What is relational data?
• Work with relationships in Power Apps
• Microsoft Dataverse for apps makes relationships even easier

6. Work with data source limits (delegation limits) in a Power Apps canvas app
• Delegation overview
• Functions, predicates, and data sources combine to determine delegation
• Delegation warnings, limits, and non-delegable functions

7. Complete testing and performance checks in a Power Apps canvas app
• The importance of thinking about performance
• Improve performance with data sources
• Testing and troubleshooting your app

8. Optimize app load time
• Use Monitor to troubleshoot app start performance issues
• Optimize App.OnStart
• Data load strategies

9. Use Monitor to troubleshoot Power Apps
• Identify and resolve common problems
• Collaborate by using Monitor

10. Use Power Apps Instrumentation with Application Insights
• Set up an app for Application Insights
• View Application Insights data
• Custom logging with trace

11. Get started with Power Automate
• Introducing Power Automate
• Create a cloud flow
• Troubleshoot flows
• Convert a flow to an agent flow

12. Introduction to expressions in Power Automate
• Introduction to expressions
• Get started with expressions
• Notes make things easier
• Types of functions
• Write complex expressions

13. Use Dataverse triggers and actions in Power Automate
• Dataverse triggers
• Query data
• Create, update, delete, and relate actions

14. Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform developer resources
• Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform for developers
• Overview of Dataverse and the Common Data Model
• Extending Power Platform with Azure
• Power Platform environments

15. Use developer tools to extend Power Platform
• Introduction to developer Power Platform tooling
• Solutions overview
• Deploy apps with Package Deployer

16. Introduction to extending Power Platform
• User experience extensibility
• Dataverse extensibility
• Determine when to configure or when to code

17. Perform common actions with client script in Power Platform
• Introduction to client-side scripting
• Upload scripts
• Event handlers
• Context objects
• Client scripting common tasks

18. Automate business process flows with client script
• Introduction to conducting global operations with the client API Xrm object
• Client scripting best practices
• Debugging client script

19. Customize the command bar
• Create or edit modern commands
• Work with classic commands
• Use Power Fx

20. Get started with Power Apps component framework
• Introduction to Power Apps component framework
• Power Apps component framework architecture
• Power Apps component tooling
• Component manifest
• Demo of the Power Apps code component

21. Build a Power Apps component
• Introduction to creating a code component
• Create a code component solution package
• Test and debug code components

22. Introduction to Dataverse for developers
• Introduction to developing with Microsoft Dataverse
• Microsoft Dataverse extensibility model
• Event framework

23. Extend plug-ins in Power Platform
• Plug-ins usage scenarios
• Plug-in execution context

24. Work with Dataverse Web API
• Introduction to the Microsoft Dataverse Web API
• Insomnia
• Authenticate against Microsoft Dataverse using OAuth
• Use OData to query data
• Use FetchXML to query data
• Call Power Automate actions from the Web API
• Use the Web API to impersonate another user
• Track entity data changes with change tracking and the Web API

25. Integrate Dataverse Azure solutions
• Microsoft Dataverse Azure Solutions overview
• Expose Microsoft Dataverse data to Azure Service Bus
• Write a Service Bus Event Listener that consumes Microsoft Dataverse messages
• Publish Microsoft Dataverse events with webhooks
• Write an Azure Function that processes Microsoft Dataverse events

26. Get started with custom connectors in Microsoft Power Platform
• Demo of the maker portal experience
• Explore custom connector configuration options
• Use a custom connector

27. Discover and use Web APIs with Power Apps
• What are custom connectors
• What is OpenAPI and why you should use it
• Test the custom connector

28. Configure custom connectors with authenticated APIs in Microsoft Power Platform
• Authentication options
• Use APIs with Azure AD
• Configure Microsoft Entra ID authentication
• Share and move between environments

29. Configure policy templates for custom connectors in Microsoft Power Platform
• Use expressions to access runtime values
• Use policies for data conversion
• Configure host URL and routing
• Add or update values

30. Create Microsoft Power Platform OpenAPI custom connectors
• Use OpenAPI extensions
• Use the dynamic list of values extension
• Use dynamic schema

31. Manage solutions in Power Apps and Power Automate
• Add and remove apps, flows, and entities in a solution
• Edit a solution-aware app, flow, and table
• Build and deploy a complex solution with flows, apps, and entities
• Automate solution management

32. Introduction to solutions for Microsoft Power Platform
• Solution layering
• Solution architecture tools and techniques
• Use version control for solutions

Course Details

Pre-requisites

• Previous software developer experience using code techniques with modern programming languages such as C# and JavaScript
• A foundational understanding of Microsoft Power Platform and hands-on experience developing a data model in Microsoft Dataverse; creating tables, columns, and relationships in Microsoft Dataverse; building Power Apps canvas apps; building Power Apps model-driven apps; and building Power Automate cloud flows
• A basic understanding of how to create a Power Apps canvas app and some experience working with controls in Power Apps
• Experience in software development against the Microsoft stack and Visual Studio
• Experience in administering solutions in Azure is preferred
• A basic understanding of how to navigate the Dynamics 365 application
• Experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI
• General developer experience

Target Audience

In this course you will learn to build solutions using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code that include the following: Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, and Microsoft Azure. As a training attendee you must have previous software developer experience using code techniques with modern programming languages such as C# and JavaScript. You must also have a foundational understanding of Microsoft Power Platform and have hands-on experience with the following: Developing a data model in Microsoft Dataverse; Creating tables, columns, and relationships in Microsoft Dataverse; Building Power Apps canvas apps; Building Power Apps model-driven apps; Building Power Automate cloud flows.

Class Format

For online (live) format

There are currently no scheduled sessions available for this course. However, feel free to contact us for more information or to inquire about upcoming sessions.