Power Apps Creator Kit – First Review

Late last month, the Microsoft Power Platform Customer Advisory Team (PowerCAT) released the Power Apps Creator Kit, which is a set of prebuilt controls and components to assist both citizen and professional developers in their journey of developing Canvas Apps and Custom Pages. In this post I will review a sample application that I created using some of these components.

New Dataverse experience in Power Apps

Last week, on June 6th, Microsoft announced the General Availability of the new data focused experiences, which aligns it with some of the functionality that has been availability in Dataverse for Teams for quite some time. This includes the new table hub, table designer the redesign of the columns and data types, the ability to edit choice columns in the maker portal and some advanced table tools.

Advanced Find changes bring us closer to Parity

Earlier this year in March, as part of the 2022 Release Wave 1, Microsoft introduced the Modern Advanced find to replaced what we have known as Advanced find for the past 20 years or so. It was definitely time to modernize this, but there were a few shortcomings to this new release which caused many customers to hold off and wait until the missing functionality has been developed and made available to customers.

Power Apps modern commanding is now Generally Available (GA)

Today, June 2, Casey Burke, Senior Program Manager announced the General Availability of Power Appls modern commanding, which has been in preview for almost a year. Modern commanding provides the ability to modify the Command Bars in your Model Driven Apps using an easy to use low-code experience, and the ability to add business logic using either Power FX or JavaScript.

Setting up the Power Apps Creator Kit

Whether you are new to developing Canvas Apps or are experienced, the Power Apps Creator Kit from the PowerCAT team has been a big talk in the community. The toolkit provides a list of pre-built controls and components that can be used to design and develop your Canvas Apps and Custom Pages.