Microsoft Power Apps Engineering: The Practical Guide to Canvas Apps, Model-Driven Apps, Dataverse, Power Fx, Copilot, AI Agents, Power Automate, and (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798176393248)

Build professional Microsoft Power Apps solutions that go far beyond simple low-code prototypes.

Microsoft Power Apps Engineering is a practical, end-to-end guide to designing, building, automating, securing, optimizing, and deploying enterprise-ready business applications with Microsoft Power Apps and the wider Power Platform.

Rather than teaching isolated features, this book follows a complete engineering workflow through the development of the Northstar Operations Platform-a realistic business solution that evolves from requirements and Dataverse architecture into Canvas Apps, Model-Driven Apps, Power Fx logic, Power Automate workflows, Copilot experiences, AI agents, enterprise security, monitoring, governance, ALM, and production deployment.

Whether you are a Power Apps maker, Power Platform developer, business application specialist, consultant, administrator, or IT professional, this book will help you move from building individual apps to engineering maintainable business solutions.

Inside, you will learn how to:

- Design professional Power Apps architectures from real business requirements

- Build strong data foundations with Microsoft Dataverse, relationships, lookups, choices, forms, views, and business rules

- Create responsive and professional Canvas Apps using screens, controls, containers, galleries, forms, components, and reusable design patterns

- Master Power Fx for filtering, searching, record manipulation, collections, Patch operations, variables, reusable logic, and error handling

- Connect Power Apps to Dataverse, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, SQL, APIs, and external business systems

- Understand delegation and design applications that perform correctly with large datasets

- Build powerful Model-Driven Apps with Dataverse, dashboards, charts, relationships, business processes, and modern commands

- Automate approvals, notifications, escalations, Dataverse processes, and Power Apps workflows with Power Automate

- Use Microsoft Copilot and AI capabilities responsibly to accelerate application development and create intelligent business experiences

- Design AI agents with Copilot Studio, Dataverse, tools, actions, automation, enterprise knowledge, human approval, and secure access controls

- Implement Dataverse security roles, privileges, teams, business units, record ownership, data policies, and enterprise data protection

- Improve performance, diagnose delegation and connector problems, test applications, use monitoring tools, and troubleshoot production failures

- Manage professional application lifecycle management with solutions, environment variables, connection references, development/test/production environments, pipelines, governance, and controlled releases

- Take a complete Power Platform solution from initial requirements to secure production deployment

The book also includes practical Power Fx references, Dataverse design and security guidance, troubleshooting checklists, enterprise ALM checklists, diagrams, architecture patterns, and a comprehensive glossary for continued reference.

Microsoft Power Apps Engineering is designed for readers who want more than a collection of tutorials. It teaches the engineering decisions behind reliable Power Platform solutions-how data, security, automation, AI, performance, maintainability, governance, and deployment work together as one system.

If you are ready to move beyond basic app building and develop secure, scalable, intelligent, and production-ready Microsoft Power Apps solutions, this book provides the practical path forward.

Start building Power Apps with the discipline of a professional Power Platform engineer.

Author: Austin Greg
ISBN-13: 9798176393248
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2026
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.74d