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TheracPowBi
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4 years ago

PowerBi Api with ASP.NET website

Hello everybody.  This is my situation. I have an ASP.NET solution that lauch a website. On my website, I have embedded a PowerBi report. To do that, I connected PowerBi with a database by using th...
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collinq
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4 years ago

Hi TheracPowBi ,

 

I am not a nuget pro by any means but it appears that this article helps:

Embed Power BI report in a Power BI embedded analytics application for your organization - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

and this one:

GitHub - microsoft/PowerBI-CSharp: Welcome to the .NET developer community for Power BI. Here you will find resources for the .NET SDKs for Power BI Embedded V2.0.0

 

In thinking about the larger topic about that you don't want Power BI to be connected to the database, I am wondering if that is feasible.  Power BI has to read the data from somewhere - from a location.  Whether it gets the data from a dataflow, a different dataset or streaming data it has to connect to something.  So, if the nuget package can serve up the data in a format that Power BI can read. 

Based on this article, from last month, it shows that you can use an API so in that case Power BI is not actually hitting the database - the API is.... Announcing Power BI APIs .NET SDK v4 | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI