Microsoft has expanded its Power Apps low-code development platform, introducing custom pages and app designer capabilities as well as app-sharing and new templates. These features were introduced on May 4.
The custom pages capability uses the Power Apps canvas for the UX and connects to more than 400 data sources, leveraging the Power Fx language for low-code logic. Custom pages can be embedded within model-driven applications, resulting in enterprise apps that combine grids and forms over the Microsoft Dataverse data storage platform.
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These unified experiences can be built with a new Modern App Designer tool, to quickly assemble an application backed by Dataverse. Modern App Designer is to be available in public preview this month. With Modern App Designer, declaratively generated grids and forms can be dropped in by selecting a table. Apps can be previewed in the designer.
In recent times, there has been a flurry of activity around platform offerings targeted at users with little or development experience so-called citizen developers as well as still serving the needs of professional developers hard-pressed to deliver apps in extremely tight timeframes. This new generation of low-code and no-code platforms are designed to make it relatively easy for people to design, build, and launch applications quickly, without having to worry about the nuances of underlying operating systems or scalability requirements.
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Built on extended cloud-based Platform-as-a-service environments and low- and no-code platforms typically employ visual programming interfaces to solve business problems faster and more completely than could be accomplished with traditional software development. In the process, the productivity of professional developers will be enhanced as they are freed up to worry about more strategic infrastructure concerns affecting their ente
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