Camp Sessions

Learn how to develop custom web applications for Power BI using .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5. In this session, campers will learn best practices for acquiring and caching access tokens in cloud-based development and learn a structured approach for implementing Power BI embedding. Campers will also learn how to integrate Node.js and webpack support into a .NET Core web application project to achieve strongly-typed programming when writing client-side TypeScript code against the Power BI JavaScript API.

Learn to write PowerShell scripts to automate common administrative tasks in a Power BI environment such as uploading PBIX files, patching datasource credentials and refreshing datasets. In this camp session, we'll go beyond the basics and explore advanced techniques such as calling Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod, parsing together REST URLs and converting PowerShell objects into JSON to populate the body of an HTTP request.

Learn how to become a pro when developing with the Power BI JavaScript API. In this camp session, you'll learn how to move beyond embedding read-only reports to provide your users with the ability to customize existing reports and to create new reports on top of existing datasets. The session will demonstrate how to implement interactive capabilities with Power BI embedding including navigating between pages, setting filters and applying bookmarks.

In this camp session, we examine how to query and modify Power BI datasets using C# and the Tabular Object Model (TOM). The session will explain how to connect to a local data model running in Power BI Desktop as well as how to connect to data models in the Power BI Service through the XMLA endpoint. Campers will learn how to write C# programs to automate some of the more tedious aspects of building Power BI data models as well as how to integrate these programs into Power BI Desktop with its support for external tools.

Step up your game as a Power BI developer by learning how to develop single page applications (SPAs) to embed Power BI reports and dashboards using the ever-popular React.js library. If you're able to attend this Power BI Dev Camp session on Thursday, December 17th, you'll learn how to design and develop SPA applications using React components to handle routing, navigation and Power BI embedding.

Learn how to get started designing and implementing custom visuals for Power BI. Campers will learn how to define the capabilities and data mappings for a custom visual and how to program D3-style data binding using categorical data from a Power BI dataset. The session also demonstrates how to extend a visual with custom properties and how to package a custom visual as a PBIVIZ file.

Learn how to develop cutting-edge web applications using .NET 5, Azure AD and the App-Owns-Data embedding model in Power BI. Campers will get increasingly excited as the learn how to implement App-Owns-Data embedding in a custom .NET 5 web application which involves first calling the Power BI Service API and then afterwards calling the Power BI JavaScript API with client-side code in the browser to complete the embedding process.

This camp session will provide a fast-paced primer on the fundamentals of the M programming language. The goal of this session is to give campers a stronger foundation for working directly with M code in the Advanced Editor when designing queries for datasets in Power BI Desktop or when designing queries for dataflows in the browser.

Learn advanced dataset programming using both the Power BI Service API and the Tabular Object Model (TOM). In this Power BI Dev Camp session, campers will learn how to create and clone datasets as well as how to extend the data model for a dataset by adding tables, columns, measures, hierarchies and table relationships. This session will also cover the how to automate patching datasource credentials and running dataset refresh operations.

Learn from Michael Kovalsky from the Power BI Customer Advisory Team (PBICAT) how to get started with the Tabular Editor to use advanced data modeling techniques not available when working with Power BI Desktop. Michael will introduce the Best Practice Analyzer and discuss how to use Best Practice Rules to scan Power BI data models to find areas for improvement.

Learn all about the App-Owns-Data Starter Kit and how it provides guidance for organizations and ISVs who are using App-Owns-Data embedding with Power BI in a multi-tenant environment. Camper will learn best practices for onboarding new customer tenants, assigning and managing user permissions, monitoring user actions for viewing and editing reports and monitoring the performance of loading and rendering reports.

Power BI provides all the features required to design and implement multi-language reports. However, the path to success is not overly intuitive. The purpose of this Dev Camp session is to explain how to use the Power BI features for Internationalization and localization from the ground up and to provide the guidance for building reports that support multiple languages.

Looking for a way to surface Power BI reports on pages in a Salesforce organization? This session will teach you how to embed reports in Salesforce using either User-Owns-Data embedding or App-Owns-Data embedding.

Learn best practices and optimization techniques for integrating Power BI reporting with with application built using Dataverse, Power Apps and Dynamics 365.

Did you know that Power BI offers a ExportReportToFile API which can be used export Power BI reports into commonly used file formats including PDF, XLSX, CSV, XML, PPTX and PNG. The session explains how to write the code to export both Power BI reports and paginated reports and explains the differences in supported output formats.

Learn how to build flows in Power Automate that call the Power BI REST APIs to automate common Power BI builder tasks such as importing PBIX files, refreshing datasets and exporting reports to PDF files. Along the way, the session will explain what's required to call the Power BI Admin APIs to export events from the Power BI activity log and scanning workspaces to inventory the reports and datasets within a Power BI tenant.