The Creator Kit helps you create Power Apps experiences on the web and mobile platforms with easy-to-use sample controls and components. The kit contains a component library, several commonly used Power Apps component framework controls, and other utilities that increase developer productivity.
All controls and components included in the kit use the Fluent UI framework to help you easily create consistent, beautiful, and effective user experiences for custom business applications.
Please refer below link for more information to download the kit and guidance –
Microsoft announced the general availability of the modern app designer, enabling a seamless, intuitive way to build robust model-driven apps with Dataverse grids, forms, and custom pages with just a few clicks. The modern app designer is now the default designer for model-driven apps and is at full feature parity with the classic designer. The modern app designer has a live preview where you can directly interact with content of the app, resize to see the app on different screen sizes, add custom pages, and many more!
Independent Publisher connectors are connectors developed, tested, published, and supported by connector developers that are independent from the backend service or API. The Microsoft Certification team performs validations and checks to ensure that the connector is safe to use. 36 new Independent Publisher connectors were published in April.
Microsoft Power Platform is a powerful low-code development platform that allows you to analyze data, build solutions, automate processes, and create virtual agents thanks to a growing ecosystem of more than 700 data connectors. Your organization’s data is likely one of the most important assets you’re responsible for safeguarding as an administrator. Therefore, Microsoft Power Platform provides a comprehensive set of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to help you define and enforce rules for how these connectors can be used.
Virtual tables connect to existing data outside of Dataverse allowing Power Apps and the Power Platform to treat it like local data. If you have a list that stores all of your product data in SharePoint, a virtual table lets you access that data within an app and also provide relationships between Dataverse tables and the SharePoint lists. You can even use your custom Power Apps code to make changes directly in the source, just by using the APIs that Dataverse provides.
Virtual Table Components
Virtual tables require connectors and connection references in order to authenticate to the data source and allow Dataverse to speak to the connection. If you are building a virtual table manually, you need to build plug-ins to allow the Dataverse and source APIs to communicate, set up a connector, set up a connection reference, register a service principle with Azure to allow authentication, and then finally build the table.
Why are Virtual Connector Providers important?
Virtual Connector Providers make the process of creating virtual tables easier. If you use a Virtual Connector Provider, Dataverse does some of the work for you. You will no longer need to:
Create Plug-ins for APIs
Create Service Principles
Search for which tables or lists are compatible in your data source
All of these steps are handled for you!
Entity Catalog
The Entity Catalog will provide you a listing of every table or list from a connected data source that can be used for creating a Virtual Table. This reduces the creation time by eliminating the need to search for the exact table or list names in your source. The catalog is created automatically once you connect to the Virtual Table source.
Note: If you have used the virtual connector provider for SQL you may notice some changes. Creating the virtual entity source no longer requires details like Client ID and GUIDs as this is managed by Dataverse.
