Enabling Pro-Dev Extensibility in Power Platform

This chapter focuses on the capabilities provided by Power Platform to professional developers to extend the experience of business solutions built on top of Power Platform. We will take a look at how Power Platform ensures the smooth integration of these extensibility options with ALM/DevOps processes in order to support the software development life cycle of these components.

We will start the chapter by looking into connectors and continue our work on custom connectors. In the previous chapter, we showed how pro developers can build web APIs and deploy them to Power Platform directly from Visual Studio; here, we will explore the concept of using the PAC CLI to ensure we enable ALM for custom connectors. We will also look into the other aspects of the custom connectors, such as environmental variables and connection references, and explain their role when moving solutions across different target environments.

After that, we will...