Prepare for Takeoff: Navigating Power BI Developer Mode - Is the Journey Worth the Flight?

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Developer Mode saves reports as pbip format with dataset and report folders, exposes model text via tmdl files (and older tmsl), and enables git integration so teams can branch and CI/CD. Demo shows bulk edits working: renaming measures, changing format strings, adding a Power Query M column (start_of_week), deleting and reordering 20+ pages, and copying bookmarks. Limitations: Power BI must be reopened after external edits, sensitivity labels and some workspace features are unsupported, and everything is still preview.

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1. 0:00Power BI Developer Mode intro
2. 7:37Benefits and limits
3. 11:13PBIP folder structure
4. 14:25Demo setup TMDL vs TMSL
5. 26:51Editing measures in text editor
6. 31:14Modifying report pages
7. 38:22Bulk changes for users
8. 43:08PBIP vs PBIX for teams
9. 47:55TMDL vs TMSL recap
10. 50:01Q&A

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