Introducing the New Azure SDKs

Power BI Custom Visual Tip: How to Render an SVG or PNG

Here’s how to render either an SVG or a PNG from within a Power BI Custom Visual. For this post, I’m going to use the IoT Hub icon that can be found in the Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise Symbol

2016-11-29

Linux/UNIX 'touch' Equivalent on Windows aka How to Create a File Without a Name on Windows

Windows Explorer doesn’t allow you to create files that start with . because it interprets that as not having a file name. On Linux/UNIX you would simply use: touch .gitignore. Windows doesn’t have

2016-11-17

How to Add [email protected] Reference to a Power BI Custom Visual (SDK v1.2)

The Power BI team just released v1.2 of the Custom Visuals SDK. With this version you now need to reference d3 v3.5.5 yourself. d3 v4 does not work yet. I’m working with the team to get a v4 compat an

2016-10-11

How to Create a Power BI Custom Visual Based on an Existing d3 Visual - Part 3 - Custom Format Properties

UPDATE: The Liquid Fill Gauge visual is now available to download from the Power BI Custom Visual Gallery! – In this series, we are creating a Power BI Custom Visual from an OSS d3 visualization I fou

2016-09-29

How to Create a Power BI Custom Visual Based on an Existing d3 Visual - Part 2 - Capabilities, dataRoles and dataViewMappings

UPDATE: The Liquid Fill Gauge visual is now available to download from the Power BI Custom Visual Gallery! – This is a continuation of my attempt at creating a Power BI Custom Visual from an OSS d3 vi

2016-09-29

Solution: Power BI - "Can't contact visual server. Please make sure the visual server is running and configured correctly."

You might see this error message when trying to load the Power BI Custom Visual “Development Visual” “Can’t contact visual server. Please make sure the visual server is running and configured correct

2016-09-25

How to Create a Power BI Custom Visual Based on an Existing d3 Visual - Part 1 - Dev Env Setup, Reference and Testing

The purpose of this post is to show you how to take an existing open source d3 visual and create a Power BI Custom Visual from it. I’ve been digging into the new Power BI Custom Visual SDK and just cr

2016-09-01

Solution: "You cannot use this account for this purpose because it belongs to an organization. Please choose a different account or sign up for a new one." when trying to signing to a Visual Studio Team Services project from within Visual Studio

I just spent way too much time trying to login to a VSTS instance from VS. Turns out to have something to do with how Microsoft Account is configured in Visual Studio. So, if you get this error: “You

2016-08-05

Solution to: Microsoft Lync 2013 not found. Go here to download and install: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248583

If you get the following error when trying to install the Lync 2013 SDK…. Microsoft Lync 2013 not found. Go here to download and install: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248583 Do not go to t

2016-08-02

Linux on Windows for Everyone! - how to Enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta) on Windows 10 Anniversary Update

The most anticipated Windows 10 Anniversary Update developer feature is now available for everyone…not just Windows Insiders. Step 0: Install Windows 10 Anniversary Update via Windows Update Go to Win

2016-07-27

TechTips

Fiddler Extension Development Tips

I recently created a custom Fiddler extension called PowerBIFiddler. Here are a few tricks that I learned along the way. Re-use Default Fiddler Inspectors For PowerBI-Fiddler, I wanted to re-use the J

2016-03-19

A Quick Intro: Azure Durable Task Framework for Long Running Code-Based Workflows Using async/await and Azure Service Bus

The Durable Task Framework (DTF) is a workflow execution framework that is based on async/await and backed by Azure Service Bus. I was recently in need of a long running workflow engine and wanted to

2015

2015-12-01

How to Parse Twitter's Date Time Format with C#

The Twitter API has its own custom date time format. Tue Dec 01 22:35:28 +0000 2015 DateTime.Parse will barf if you try to parse it. I searched around a bit and didn’t find a quick resolution. Lucki

2015-11-20

Solution to "search query is too long or complex" when creating a Twitter IFTTT Recipe

I was just setting up a new IFTTT.com recipe and got this error: “search query is too long or complex”. I did a bunch of poking around and discovered that my IFTTT->Twitter integration was disconn

2015-09-27

TechReviews

REST API SDK Generators

I’m investigating automatic REST API SDK generation options and I’d like your help narrowing things down. We, at Power BI, have a REST/JSON API and our documentation is up on apiary, which supports “A

2015-09-14

Devs Needed for Power BI - Microsoft's new Business Intelligence Cloud Service

[TLDR; I just joined Power BI and I’m hiring developers. Click here to jump to the job description and apply. Here are some of my previous blog posts to give you an idea of how I operate: On Work/Lif

2015-07-28

How to create a StackOverflow driven Power BI Dashboard with the StackOverflow API, Azure WebJob, Azure SQL and Node.js

Power BI is Microsoft’s new data visualization platform. It allows you to easily pull data from datasources like Salesforce, GitHub and QuickBooks. As I was going through the product I noticed they di

2014

2014-08-13