Create Custom Visuals in Power BI with GitHub Copilot

UPDATE: 15-March-2026 I created a public repo with all my custom visuals, including source code and setup instructions here:https://github.com/dax-tips/CustomVisuals Blog Last week I had the pleasure to attend the Power BI Next Step conference in Copenhagen. I enjoyed it and can highly recommend it. As part of that event, I was invited to a fun Continue reading Create Custom Visuals in Power BI with GitHub Copilot

Visualise your Power BI refresh – in real-time

Introduction I recently wrote an article showing how you can visualise a dataset refresh using Power BI. It was a pretty cool way to show some of the internal workings of what otherwise is a black box. The idea from my earlier article uses SSMS Profiler to run a trace against a database hosted in Continue reading Visualise your Power BI refresh – in real-time

Use Visual Studio Code to Auto-format JSON

My last few articles have focused on using Visual Studio Code to build a series of scripts to help manage Analysis Services data models. As part of this work, I’ve found Visual Studio Code to be extremely helpful in other ways too, such as a very powerful text editor with many features you may find Continue reading Use Visual Studio Code to Auto-format JSON