Intial Setup for Custom Visual Development

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.