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Eickhel Mendoza
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Eickhel Mendoza

Eickhel Mendoza is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP with many years of experience in project management, Microsoft Azure development, and Microsoft Power Platform technologies. He is a team lead of the Business Apps department and oversees all Microsoft 365 and Power Platform projects. He has contributed to significant community events such as the Power Platform World Tour, Global Azure Bootcamp, Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp, and Dynamics 365 Saturdays. He coordinates the TenerifeDev and Power Platform Canarias user groups with a group of like-minded developers eager to share their knowledge in different technologies. Eickhel is also a member of the organizing committee of the Business Applications Summit Spain.
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Setting up your environments

Building PCF components requires configuring your local development device and, in the case of canvas apps, your Power Platform environments as well. These configurations involve installing specific tools to aid in component lifecycle management.

The Microsoft Power Platform Command-Line Interface (CLI) is the primary tool to build the PCF’s project structure, and it requires several tools to perform its tasks. This recipe will cover the detailed steps to prepare the CLI installation, separating each tool installation into different sections.

Getting ready

The required tooling to build PCF projects supports Windows 10 / 11 or macOS. We will leverage the JavasScript runtime engine Node.js to serve the scripting side of this project and its package manager (npm) to gather all the required references.

When choosing a development tool to build these components, you have two options: Visual Studio (version 2017 or later) or Visual Studio...

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Eickhel Mendoza

Eickhel Mendoza is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP with many years of experience in project management, Microsoft Azure development, and Microsoft Power Platform technologies. He is a team lead of the Business Apps department and oversees all Microsoft 365 and Power Platform projects. He has contributed to significant community events such as the Power Platform World Tour, Global Azure Bootcamp, Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp, and Dynamics 365 Saturdays. He coordinates the TenerifeDev and Power Platform Canarias user groups with a group of like-minded developers eager to share their knowledge in different technologies. Eickhel is also a member of the organizing committee of the Business Applications Summit Spain.
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