This talk introduces Visual Studio Code as a simple and convenient tool to access the Power BI REST APIs. Using the free "REST Client" extension, all aspects of the API can be used from within Visual Studio Code: Invocations can be saved for reuse, variables are supported, and API responses are available in full.
You will also learn about the different authentication types (service principal, interactive, admin), how those differ, and how they're configured.
All examples used in the recording and further notes are available here.
Note that this approach is also substantially faster then the "Try It" button integrated into Microsoft's official API docs here.
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In 2015, after having spent over ten years as a Software Developer and Architect with Microsoft technologies, Mathias Thierbach moved into the Microsoft BI space. He soon landed on Power BI, but also realized quickly that the development and engineering tools and practices were nothing like the ones well established in software development. This is how pbi-tools started as a project, filling this gap in tooling. Today, leading a growing data management team at YouGov, he experiences the benefits of those efforts every day. Having open sourced the project in fall of 2021, Mathias spends a lot of his free time bringing those practices to the wider Power BI community now.
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