Microsoft Power Platform Developer (PL-400T00)

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.

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. 

1. Create a model-driven application in Power Apps

   This lesson introduces you to creating a model-driven app in Power Apps that uses Common Data Service.
   1. Introduction to model-driven apps and Common Data Service
   2. Get started with model-driven apps in Power Apps
   3. Create and manage entities in Common Data Service
   4. Create and manage fields within an entity in Common Data Service
   5. Working with option sets in Common Data Service
   6. Create a relationship between entities in Common Data Service
   7. Define and create business rules in Common Data Service
   8. Create and define calculation or rollup fields in Common Data Service
   9. Get started with security roles in Common Data Service
   10. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
       • Get started with Power Apps
       • Customize a canvas app in Power Apps
       • Manage apps in Power Apps
       • Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps
       • How to build the UI in a canvas app in Power Apps
       • Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps
       • Document and test your Power Apps application

2. Create a canvas app in Power Apps

   This lesson introduces you to Power Apps, helps you create and customize an app, and then manage and distribute it. It will also show you how to provide the best app navigation, and build the best UI using themes, icons, images, personalization, different form factors, and controls.
   1. Get started with Power Apps
   2. Customize a canvas app in Power Apps
   3. Manage apps in Power Apps
   4. Navigation in a canvas app in Power Apps
   5. How to build the UI in a canvas app in Power Apps
   6. Use and understand Controls in a canvas app in Power Apps
   7. Document and test your Power Apps application
   8. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Use imperative development techniques for canvas apps in Power Apps
      • Author an advanced formula that uses tables, records, and collections in a canvas app in Power Apps
      • Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app
      • Complete testing and performance checks in a Power Apps canvas app
      • Work with relational data in a Power Apps canvas app
      • Work with data source limits (delegation limits) in a Power Apps canvas app
      • Connecting to other data in a Power Apps canvas app
      • Use custom connectors in a Power Apps canvas app

3. Master advance techniques and data options in canvas apps

   This lesson will help you use advanced formulas, perform custom updates, performance checks and testing. It will also help you to improve user's experience, use custom connectors and focus on working with data source limits.
   1. Use imperative development techniques for canvas apps in Power Apps
   2. Author an advanced formula that uses tables, records, and collections in a canvas app in Power Apps
   3. Perform custom updates in a Power Apps canvas app
   4. Complete testing and performance checks in a Power Apps canvas app
   5. Work with relational data in a Power Apps canvas app
   6. Work with data source limits (delegation limits) in a Power Apps canvas app
   7. Connecting to other data in a Power Apps canvas app
   8. Use custom connectors in a Power Apps canvas app
   9. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Get started with Power Automate
      • Build more complex flows with Power Automate
      • Introduction to business process flows in Power Automate
      • Create an immersive business process flow in Power Automate
      • Understand advanced business process flow concepts in Power Automate
      • Introduction to expressions in Power Automate

4. Automate a business process using Power Automate

   This lesson introduces you to Power Automate, teaches you how to build workflows, and how to administer flows.
   1. Get started with Power Automate
   2. Build more complex flows with Power Automate
   3. Introduction to business process flows in Power Automate
   4. Create an immersive business process flow in Power Automate
   5. Understand advanced business process flow concepts in Power Automate
   6. Introduction to expressions in Power Automate
   7. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Introduction to Power Platform developer resources
      • Use developer tools to extend the Power Platform
      • Introduction to extending the Microsoft Power Platform

5. Introduction to developing with Power Platform

   This lesson is the first step in learning about platform, tools, and the ecosystem of the Power Platform
   1. Introduction to Power Platform developer resources
   2. Use developer tools to extend the Power Platform
   3. Introduction to extending the Microsoft Power Platform
   4. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Introduction to Common Data Service for developers
      • Extend plug-ins

6. Extending the Power Platform Common Data Service

   This lesson looks at the tools and resources needed for extending the Power Platform. We'll start with looking at the SDKs, the extensibility model, and event framework. This learning path also covers when to use plug-ins. Configuration of plug-ins as well as registering and deploying plug-ins.
   1. Introduction to Common Data Service for developers
   2. Extend plug-ins
   3. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Introduction to web resources
      • Performing common actions with client script
      • Automate business process flows with client script

7. Extending the Power Platform user experience Model Driven apps

   This lesson describes how to create client scripting, perform common actions with client script, and automate business process flow with client scrip. Learn about what client script can do, rules, and maintaining scripts. Discover when to use client script as well as when not to use client script.
   1. Introduction to web resources
   2. Performing common actions with client script
   3. Automate business process flows with client script
   4. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Get started with Power Apps component framework
      • Build a Power Apps component
      • Use advanced features with Power Apps component framework

8. Create components with Power Apps Component Framework

   This lesson describes how to get started with Power Apps Component Framework with an introductory lesson on the core concepts and components. Then it shows you how to build a component and work with advanced Power Apps Component Framework features.
   1. Get started with Power Apps component framework
   2. Build a Power Apps component
   3. Use advanced features with Power Apps component framework
   4. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Introduction to Power Apps portals
      • Access Common Data Service in Power Apps portals
      • Extend Power Apps portals
      • Build custom Power Apps portals web templates

9. Extend Power Apps portals

   This lesson describes how to transform a content portal into a full web app interacting with Common Data Service. We will also cover the options available to customizers and developers to extend the portal functionality and integrate with Office 365, Power Platform, and Azure components.
   1. Introduction to Power Apps portals
   2. Access Common Data Service in Power Apps portals
   3. Extend Power Apps portals
   4. Build custom Power Apps portals web templates
   5. On completing this lesson, you will have learned to:
      • Work with Common Data Service Web API
      • Integrate Common Data Service Azure solutions

10. Integrate with Power Platform and Common Data Service

    This lesson describes how to integrate with Common Data Service using code by learning about Common Data Service API. Get an in-depth overview of options available with Common Data Service to integrate data and events to Azure.
    1. Work with Common Data Service Web API
    2. Integrate Common Data Service Azure solutions

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Experience in the following is required for this Microsoft Power Platform class: