Power BI and Fabric Studio for VSCode by Gerhard Brueckl
Power BI and more recently also Microsoft Fabric are usually accessed via the web UI which provides a lot of functionality. However, for a lot of tasks this UI is just very cumbersome and not really user friendly. To mitigate this, Microsoft provides different APIs to interact with the service(s) programmatically. Power BI Studio and Fabric Studio are two Visual Studio Code extensions heavily leveraging those APIs allowing you to easily navigate your workspaces and items and execute the most common actions. Both extensions also have a notebook feature which allows you to run arbitrary API calls directly from VSCode with the help of intellisense and the integration of other VSCode extensions. In this session I will demo both extensions an show what is already possible today and how you can get the most of the Power BI and Fabric REST APIs. About Gerhard: Gerhard has been working with the Microsoft Data Platform for almost 20 years. From building traditional BI/DWH solution on the MSSQL server stack to designing and implementing whole data platforms hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. He is also familiar with OSS technologies in that area like Hadoop, Spark and Delta Lakes. When not working on customer projects, Gerhard is an active member in the community and shares his knowledge in his blog or when speaking at conferences and meet-ups. TENTATIVE AGENDA (subject to change, all times listed are in Pacific Time): 7:45am Teams Meeting opens 8:00am-8:05 am Welcome 8:05am-9:05am Feature Presentation 9:05am-9:10am Wrap-up REGISTRATION: This meet-up will be hosted on Microsoft Teams and will be recorded for those who cannot attend live. To access the Teams Meeting link, you must RSVP for the event. JOINING THE EVENT: Attendees can join the Teams Meeting starting at 7:45 am PST on the day of the event. The link will be visible only if you RSVP beforehand. The event will begin at 8:00 am PST. Please ensure you are on mute to minimize background noise and distractions. During the presentation, type your questions and comments into the chat area, which will be monitored by the event hosts. There will be a Q&A session at the end, where you can unmute your mic and share your video to ask questions.
Synapse-Remote extension not working correctly
Hello all, I’m currently losing my mind because off the Synapse-Remote extension not working correctly. When I open a notebook via the extension and try to load cells, I get a message saying that Jupyter is “waiting for the session to be idle.” A few days ago, everything was working fine, but now it’s just stuck loading indefinitely, and nothing happens. I have installed conda, JDK, jupyter lab and jupyter extensions. Oddly, the VS Code web version of fabric notebooks has also stopped working. When I run the notebook inside Fabric, it takes about 2 minutes to connect to the session, but then it eventually works as expected. Has anyone experienced similar issues with Fabric and the Synapse-Remote extension? For context, I’m using a MacBook, but this setup hasn’t been an issue before—even the web version used to work without problems. After loading for 15 mins i got a message that the kernel is dead..
