Intial Setup for Custom Visual Development
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SACHIN: Hi, I'm Sachin
and I work on the Power BI team
at Microsoft.
In this video I will show you
how to get
your environment set up
to create Power BI visuals.
Before you get started,
you will need the following.
Git for Windows,
Nodejs and Visual Studio 2015.
You can get the link for these
at the Power BI GitHub page.
All right. Let's get started.
The first thing
you need to do is to clone
the GitHub repository.
Once that's done you need to
go into
the Power BI directory...
and execute npm install.
All right.
Once that's done,
you can go into the folder
and navigate
to the Power BI client solution.
Once the solution starts up
and the task runner explorer,
you will notice that
Visual Studio
automatically started
the continuous build task.
This task will be
running continuously,
we've to build the source code.
Right click
on the Power BI Visuals Project.
Navigate to properties pages.
Make sure
this is set to no build.
Then, navigate under clients
to Power BI Visuals
playground...
and right click
on the index html file
and set it as the start page.
Once you see the word
start watchers up here,
you're good to go.
Press control F5
to launch the project.
In the Visual Playground
you will be
able to select a visual,
turn on animations
and interactions
and you will be
able to resize the visual,
randomize the data,
up click on it to see
how interactions go.
Thank you for watching.