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Power Apps - Customized Form and Views creations using Code other then Power Apps GUI

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Posted on by PannirSelvam

I am a CRM Developer, I have done the form and views creations in Model Driven Apps using the Power Apps environment provided inside the CRM.
I would like to do the same development of Forms and Views of model-driven apps manually using Code, Instead of using GUI mode provided by Power Apps.

Is there any Open Source/Paid Tools available to code manually Model Driven Apps.

1. Creating Model Driven App manually.
2. Creating/Editing Forms manually.
3. Creating/Customizing the Views manually.
4. Customize the view like data tables format.

example reference: https://datatables.net/

Note:
I am using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Plan 2022 (Online)
I have developed the many model driven apps using this environment.

Like Visual Studio Tool , to develop all the Power App functionality using Project. Deploy the Solution finally to Dynamics 365 CRM Environment.

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Ram Prakash Duraisamy 5,593 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @PannirSelvam

As per my knowledge there is so such tool available. Lets wait for others comments as wall.

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EricRegnier 8,720 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @PannirSelvam,

If we think about it behind the scenes, forms, apps, views, etc are just XML which you can edit. The Maker portal or classic designer are tools to edit that XML. Especially for a healthy ALM, it is recommended to download (aka extract aka unpack) these objects into XML and manage in a proper source control. Once you have that XML in source control you can modify this XML and is quite common to do especially for bulk update scenarios.
See Solution Packager and Power Apps CLI (pac commands) below that are helpers to help you unpack a solution zip into XML components that you can then manage with pro-developers tools (eg Visual Studio and git).

https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/customerengagement/on-premises/developer/compress-extract-solution-file-solutionpackager

https://learn.microsoft.com/power-platform/developer/cli/introduction
Unpack: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/cli/reference/solution#pac-solution-unpack
Hope this helps!

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